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Georges de Mauduit de Kervern, Vicomte de Mauduit (born 1893), was a French military pilot and author. He was the son of the Comte de Mauduit, Chief of Staff and a cavalry officer, and his great-grandfather General de Mauduit accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena.

Life and Works
Georges de Mauduit was educated in England, and trained as an engineer. He served in the French Air Force during the First World War, when he was shot down and severely wounded. He spent time working on irrigation projects in Egypt, and travelling in Britain, France and America.

In 1932 he wrote Private Views: Reminisces of a Wandering Nobleman which the Times Literary Supplement described as "a lively and fascinating book in which the author introduces you to all the famous people he has met", filled with “charming pen pictures.” The book recounts meetings with celebrities of the day, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Mata Hari and Arthur Conan-Doyle. He also recounts his aviation training under Louis Blériot, his encounter with Colonel Roosevelt in New York, and describes his life as an engineer in Paris during the First World War and his work on the first tanks through participation in a technical committee.

De Mauduit also wrote a selection of cookery books as well as a book described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a "pleasant nursery story" entitled Mimie and Shah.

His series of "original and valuable" cookery books began with The Vicomte in the kitchen: the art of cooking, preserving, eating, and drinking, with the manner how to make simple dishes, all kinds of banqueting stuffs, of the wines to be drunk with them, and of sauces, syrups, and jams, also a selection of recipes from many continents, countries and counties, together with many economic and distinguished novelties, with finally a choice of menus for all occasions, seasons, purses, and moods (1933). This first book was followed by The Vicomte in the Kitchenette: Being the Art of Cooking within restricted space, limited time and reduced income; with the manner of how to make easy dainty and tasty Dishes; all kinds of inexpensive and rapidly made Novelties; together with a Glossary of Cooking Terms; with finally much advise to those about to set up small house (1934) and The Kitchen Companion (1939).

1940 saw the publication of They Can’t Ration These, a cookery book responding to the outbreak of the Second World War instructing the reader on how to use ingredients sourced from the English countryside, described by the Times Literary Supplement "to the country dweller with time and a spirit of adventure the book will be a delight." In his preface to the text, David Lloyd George described the book as "a valuable contribution towards our national defence".

Final Years and Death
Information surrounding Mauduit's movements after 1940 is unclear. A 1941 article in the Chicago Tribune records that Mauduit has been tried in England on a charge of "making statements 'likely to cause alarm or despondency'". He was found guilty sentenced to two months of imprisonment.

In December 1942 and January 1943, a series of articles by Mauduit appeared in various European newspapers. In these pieces, Mauduit describes his disillusionment with the Free French Government, and his belief that the French government-in-exile was under the control of the British and Jewish people. He refers to his imprisonment in Lisbon at the hands of the British, and cites the poor treatment of French volunteers arriving in London. In January 1943, he addressed Radio-Paris, with a talk on the same theme.

His movements and activities after 1943 are not known. However, records from Dachau Concentration camp record the arrival of "Georges de Manduit" on 20th June 1944, and his death on 2nd February 1945.

His death was announced in The Times in late 1945. An initial notice published on 22nd of November describes him as the "brother of Mlle Evelyn de Mauduit". The notice was republished two weeks later, with the correction that he was the father of Evelyn, rather than her brother. On his death, a notice in The Times, November 22, 1945 read, "de Mauduit.- on Feb.2, 1945, at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, Vicomte Georges de Mauduit, political deportee, son of Vicomtesse Georges de Mauduit and brother of Mlle. Evelyn de Mauduit. Died for France."