Question: The author who wrote the book on which a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot was based was born in what French city?

Context articles: Diabolique (1996 film)
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Wages of Fear
Hell (1994 film)
Georges Arnaud
Les Espions
Les Diaboliques (film)
La prisonnière (film)

Diabolique is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Don Roos.
 It is a remake of the French film "Les Diaboliques" (1955) directed by Clouzot.
 The film stars Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri and Kathy Bates.
 Filming took place in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (French title: "L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot") is a film directed, written and produced by Henri-Georges Clouzot, cinematography by and , which remained unfinished in 1964.
 It was presented in 2009 as a full-length semi-documentary by .
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (French: L'Assassin habite au 21 ) is a 1942 French comedy thriller film by director Henri-Georges Clouzot.
 Adapted by Belgian writer Stanislas-André Steeman and Clouzot from Steeman's 1939 book of the same title, it was Clouzot's debut feature film.
 The film is about the hunt by detective Wens (Pierre Fresnay) for the murderer Monsieur Durand, who leaves calling cards and manages to be everywhere at once.
 With the aspiring actress Mila Malou (Suzy Delair), Wens follows clues to a seedy boarding house where he hopes to find the murderer.
Henri-Georges Clouzot (] ; (1907--)18 1907 – (1977--)12 1977 ) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
 He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed "The Wages of Fear" and "Les Diaboliques", which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s.
 Clouzot also directed documentary films, including "The Mystery of Picasso", which was declared a national treasure by the government of France.
The Wages of Fear (French: Le salaire de la peur ) is a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on the 1950 French novel "Le salaire de la peur" (lit.
 "The Salary of Fear") by Georges Arnaud.
 When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames.
 The film brought Clouzot international fame, and allowed him to direct "Les Diaboliques".
 In France the film was the 4th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 6,944,306 admissions.
L'Enfer ("Hell") is a 1994 French film directed by Claude Chabrol.
 It was adapted by Chabrol from the screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot for the unfinished film "L'Enfer", which Clouzot began shooting in 1964 but was unable to complete.
 The producer of Chabrol's film was Marin Karmitz and the leading actors were Emmanuelle Béart and François Cluzet.
Henri Girard (1917 - 1987) is a French author who used the pseudonym Georges Arnaud.
 He was born in France, in Montpellier.
 He is the author of the novel "The Wages of Fear" (French: "Le salaire de la peur" ).
Les Espions ("The Spies") is a 1957 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and written by Clouzot with Jerôme Géronim and Egon Hostovsky.
 The cast includes Gérard Séty, Peter Ustinov, Curd Jürgens, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe, Martita Hunt and the director's wife, Véra Clouzot.
 The music was composed by Georges Auric.
Les Diaboliques (] ), released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as "The Devils" or "The Fiends", is a 1955 French black-and-white psychological thriller feature film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel.
 It is based on the novel "Celle qui n'était plus" ("She Who Was No More") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
La prisonnière, sometimes known as Woman in Chains, is a French film written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot that was released in 1968.
 It is about an attractive young woman living with an avant-garde artist who falls disastrously for the voyeuristic owner of the gallery which shows her husband's work.
 Clouzot's only film completed in colour, it was the last of his career.