Trivia

President of the jury that, during the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, reexamined the seven selections that would have been presented at the first Festival, in 1939, had it not been canceled because of the War.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1985.

His wife Françoise Béghin is first cousin of Louis Malle.

His daughter Héloïse d'Ormesson is now a book publisher.

Has supported Nicolas Sarkozy's 2012 presidential campaign.

Born in an aristocratic family which were important public servants since the Renaissance, he is a member of the Académie française since 1973. His uncle diplomat and author Wladimir d'Ormesson was also a member.

As a child, he lived in the castle of Saint-Fargeau in Yonne, property of his mother Henriette Isabelle Anisson du Perron. He recreated the era in his novel Au plaisir de Dieu which was adapted for TV. The Saint-Fargeau estate is famous for having been owned by Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, la Grande Mademoiselle, first cousin of king Louis XIV.

Director of french newspaper Le Figaro from February 1974 to July 1977, he was an éditorialiste and frequent collaborator there.