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Robert De Saint-Jean
Robert de Saint Jean (1901–1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like Green, he kept a diary which he eventually published. It provides insight into French society and cultural life over several decades. He worked, in particular, for ''Paris-Soir'', '' le Parisien libéré'', and ''Paris Match''. When France fell to the Nazis in 1940, he was deputy chief of staff to the French minister of information. His writing had made him a personal enemy of German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Green arranged for him to gain entry to Portugal and then transfer to the US. In 1984 he received the Prix Marcel Proust. He also worked as editor for the Plon publishing house. Selected works *1934: ''La vraie révolution de Roosevelt'', Éditions Grasset *1941: ''Démocratie, beurre et canons'', Maison de la France, New Yorkonline transcription*1936: ''Le Feu sacré'', Éditions Gallimard *1967: ''Julien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Saint Jean Dans Paris-Soir Du 6 Octobre 1938
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maison De La France
Atout France, the France Tourism Development Agency (formerly Maison de la France, the French National Tourist Office), is the French organisation responsible for promoting France as a tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ... destination. History Atout France was created on 22 July 2009 for the development and modernization of tourism services in France. It was created by merging Maison de la France, an agency that promotes the French culture abroad, and ODIT France, a tourism engineering company. This merger brought together all the functions of promotion including campaigns, press campaigns, canvassing and tourism engineering such as diagnosis, development plans, project management assistance etc. under a single entity to strengthen the positioning of French tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Estang
Luc Bastard (pen name: Luc Estang; 1911–1992) was a French writer, critic and publisher. He was born in Paris and attended boarding schools and Catholic seminaries in Artois and Belgium. He began his writing career in 1929, and published his first newspaper piece in 1933. In 1934, he joined the Catholic daily '' La Croix'' as literature and arts critic, and he rose to be its editor-in-chief in 1940. In 1945 he became a permanent jury member of the Prix Renaudot. In 1955, he quit his position at ''La Croix'', seeking to break through the constraints of being known as "just another Catholic writer", or worse, a Catholic propagandist. He was a friend of renowned Catholic writers such as Mauriac, Bernanos, Claudel and Jouhandeau. He continued to write through personal and professional upheavals, eventually producing some 20 novels. Among his best-known novels are the trilogy called ''Charges d'Ames'' (''The Cure of Souls'', 1949-1954), which has been compared to Roger Peyrefitte's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (threshold) is the whole excitement of parting and arriving. It is also the brand new threshold that we refashion at the door of the Church to allow entry to many whose foot gropes around it" (Jean Plaquevent, letter dated 28 December 1934). Description Éditions du Seuil was the publisher of the '' Don Camillo'' series, and of Chairman Mao Zedong's '' Little Red Book''. The large sales that these generated have allowed the house to publish more specialized titles, particularly in the social sciences. Seuil has published works by Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers (in his first period), and later by Edgar Morin, Maurice Genevoix and Pierre Bourdieu. Notably, they published Frantz Fanon's doctoral thesis, '' Black Skin, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Gallimard
Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandson Antoine Gallimard. Éditions Gallimard is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group. History The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Jean Schlumberger as ''Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF). From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles including ''La Jeune Parque'' by Paul Valéry. NRF published the second volume of ''In Search of Lost Time'', In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the first Prix Goncourt-awarded book published by the company. Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Grasset
Éditions Grasset () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). Grasset publishes French and foreign literature, essays, novels and children's books, among others. Bernard Grasset sold ownership of the company to Hachette in 1954. In 1967, Éditions Grasset merged with . Today it operates as a subsidiary of Hachette, which has been owned by Lagardère Group since 1981. History Under its Founder Bernard Grasset was born in 1881 in Montpellier. He received a degree in economics before moving to Paris, where he ran in literary circles and started his own publishing business. The company published a number of successful books in its early years, including Alphonse de Châteaubriant's ''Monsieur des Lourdines'' and André Savignon's ''Les Filles de la pluie'', both of which won the Prix Goncourt. In 1913, Grasset published the first volume of '' À la recherche du temps perdu'', by Marcel Proust, '' Du côté de chez Swann''. Proust paid for the publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Green
Julien Green (originally "Julian Hartridge Green", 6 September 1900 – 13 August 1998) often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated text of his journals presented a different version of his personality and sexuality, revealed details of the lives of many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France. When elected to membership in the Académie française in 1971, he was the first non-French national to join its ranks. He was the recipient of many awards and one of the few writers to have his collected works published in Gallimard's Pleiade library d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plon (publisher)
Plon is a French language, French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers. History The ''Éditions Plon'' were created in 1852, by Henri Plon and his two brothers. They were given the title of ''Imprimeur de l’Empereur'' (Imperial publisher) and published the correspondence of Louis XIII of France, Marie Antoinette and Napoleon I of France. During the 1920s the house published the novels of the Jewish-Algerian writer Elissa Rhaïs. Plon published Quid (encyclopedia), Quid, an encyclopedia, from 1963 to 1974. They were acquired by the Groupe de La Cité, which was later acquired in 1988 by Havas. In 2001, Havas was itself absorbed by Vivendi, then called ''Vivendi Universal''. The Vivendi group, facing financial troubles, sold several publishing companies, including Plon, to De Wendel family, Wendel Investissement, which put it under the umbrella of the Editis group. In 2008, ''Editis'' was sold to the Spain, Spanish group Planeta Group, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Marcel Proust
The Marcel Proust Prize is a former literary award of France. Created by the municipal council of Cabourg, in Normandy, in 1972, it was awarded until 1994; the recipient was a work which evoked that of Marcel Proust. Writers were awarded 5,000 francs for their work. List of winners * 1972: Michel Robida for ''Le Dragon de Chartres'' (Julliard) * 1973: Georges Cattaui for ''Proust et ses métamorphoses'' (Nizet) * 1974: Julien Green for ''Jeunesse'' (Plon) * 1975: Emmanuel Berl for ''A venir et Regain au pays d'Auge'' (Le Livre de Poche) * 1976: Marcel Schneider for ''Sur une étoile'' (Grasset) * 1977: Jacques de Lacretelle for ''Les Vivants et leur ombre'' (Grasset) * 1978: Roger Caillois for ''Le Fleuve Alphée'' (Gallimard) * 1979: Henri Bonnet for ''Le Progrès spirituel dans la Recherche'' (Nizet) * 1980: Jacques de Bourbon Busset for ''Les Choses simples'' (Gallimard) * 1981: Angelo Rinaldi for ''La Dernière fête de l'Empire'' (Gallimard) * 1982: Alain Bosquet for ''L' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
