Propaganda of this man next to Potez 540 bombers during the Spanish Civil War backfired due to the plane’s nickname of “Flying Coffin.” In Operation Northwind, this man led a brigade that defended Strasbourg and was named for Alsace-Lorraine. He wasn’t a head of state, but a four-year-old girl was blinded by a failed 1962 bombing targeting this man by the OAS. Inspired by T. E. Lawrence’s excavation of Carchemish (“CAR-keh-mish”), this man was jailed for removing a bas-relief from the Banteay Srei (“bon-tay s’rye”) temple while on vacation in Indochina with his wife Clara. This man’s namesake law prevented the demolition of original Parisian buildings and was passed while he was the first Minister of Cultural Affairs under Charles de Gaulle. The Conquerors and The Royal Way form part of a trilogy by this man, along with a novel in which Ch’en Ta Erh dies during an attempted assassination of Chiang Kai-Shek. For 10 points, name this French author who described communist intrigue in Shanghai in Man’s Fate. ■END■
ANSWER: André Malraux [or Georges André Malraux; accept Malraux Law; accept Malraux Brigade or Brigade Malraux]
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