It seemed clear that the majority had discriminated. It’s been said that Planet of the Apes was about discrimination. Planet of the Apes is a historic novel by Pierre Boulle and one of his greatest works. Pierre Boulle was in such a state of boredom that he couldn’t think of anything to write about, then suddenly he got an inspiration that set him off and he started writing novel after novel and became a famous writer. He had a brilliant father and mother he was brilliant as well and went to school to study science. His wartime heroism earned him the Croix de Guerre and a Medal of the Resistance. For his literary achievements, he was appointed officer of the Legion of Honor. It is one of his last books and his only essay. Pierre Boulle wrote The Shimmering Universe when he was 75 years old. The Bridge over the River Kwai and The Planet of the Apes. The novels he wrote were a mixture of both his experiences and his imagination. Pierre Boulle would settle in a hotel in the Quartier Latin in Paris, then at his sister’s, recently widowed, to begin his career as a novelist. While a prisoner, he was subjected to severe hardship and forced labor. In 1943 he was captured by the Vichy France loyalists on the Mekong River. He served as a secret agent under the name Peter John Rule and helped the resistance movement in China, Burma and French Indochina. After German troops occupied France he joined the Free French Mission in Singapore. At the outbreak of World War Boulle enlisted with the French army in French Indochina.

Then Pierre Boulle later moved to Malaya when he was 26.įrom 1936 to 1939 he worked as a technician on British rubber plantations in Malaya. Pierre Boulle graduated college with a degree in engineering in 1932 and subsequently became an engineer. He studied science at the Sorbonne and then entered the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite de Paris. Pierre’s parents raised him to be Catholic although later in his life he became agnostic. His father, Eugene Boulle, was a brilliant lawyer who taught him his sense of humor and open- mindedness and his mother, Therese Seguin, was born in a family of printers. Pierre Boulle was born on Februin Avignon, France.

De Apenplaneet by Pierre Boulle