French novelist and art theorist André Malraux was born on this day, November 3, in 1901. Malraux was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (19450-46) and subsequently as France’s first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle’s presidency (1959-69).

André Malraux was photographed by Karsh in 1954. Charles de Gaulle was photographed in 1944.