 But it is his plays that gained him international renown.He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry ("The Trojan War Will Not Take Place") and Maurice Valency ("The Madwoman of Chaillot", "Ondine", "The Enchanted", "The Apollo of Bellac").Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.