Émile Baumann (24 November 1868 – 24 November 1941) was a French writer.
Biography
Baumann was born in
Lyons
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in 1868. He was descended from a
Lutheran
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family converted to
Catholicism
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. In
Algiers
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he met
Saint-Saëns, and devoted his first work to him. He was directly involved in the ''Catholic Literary Renaissance'' movement, alongside such people as
François Mauriac
François Charles Mauriac (; ; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...
,
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel (; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.
Early lif ...
and
Pierre Reverdy
Pierre Reverdy (; 13 September 1889 – 17 June 1960) was a French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative art movements of the day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism. The loneliness and spiritual app ...
. Sister Mary Keeler, in her ''Catholic Literary France'' says that of all French novelists of the time Baumann was perhaps the most completely Catholic. He was awarded the ''Prix Balzac'' in 1922 for his novel ''Job le Prédestiné''.
[Sheen, Fulton J. (2009). ''Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen.'' New York: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, p. 134.] In 1931 he married the engraver and artist
Elisabeth de Groux, daughter of Belgian painter
Henry de Groux.
He died in
Vernègues.
Works
* ''Les Grandes Formes de la Musique, l’œuvre de Camille Saint-Saëns'' (1905).
* ''L'Immolé'' (1909).
* ''La Fosse aux Lions'' (1911).
* ''Trois Villes Saintes: Ars en Dombes, Saint Jacques de Compostelle, Le Mont Saint Michel'' (1912).
* ''Le Baptême de Pauline Ardel'' (1913).
* ''La Paix du Septième Jour'' (1917).
* ''L’Abbé Chevoleau, Caporal au 90e d’Infanterie'' (1919).
* ''Le Fer sur l'Enclume'' (1920).
* ''Heures d’été au Mont Saint-Michel'' (1920).
* ''Job le Prédestiné'' (1922).
* ''L’Anneau d’or des Grands Mystiques, de Saint-Augustin à Catherine Emmerich'' (1924).
* ''Saint Paul'' (1925).
* ''Le Signe sur les Mains'' (1926).
* ''Intermèdes'' (1927).
* ''Mon Frère Dominicain'' (1927).
* ''Les Chartreux'' (1928).
* ''Bossuet Moraliste'' (1929).
* ''Les Douze Collines'' (1929).
* ''Abel et Caïn'' (1930).
* ''Marie-Antoinette et Axel Fersen'' (1931).
* ''Le Mont Saint-Michel'' (1932).
* ''Le Cantique Éternel''
** ''La Symphonie du Désir'' (1933).
** ''Amour et Sagesse'' (1934).
* ''Lyon et le Lyonnais'' (1934).
* ''Héloïse, L’Amante et l’Abbesse'' (1934).
* ''La Vie Terrible d’Henry de Groux'' (1936).
* ''Comment Vivent les Chartreux'' (1936).
* ''L'Excommunié'' (1939).
* ''Histoire des Pèlerinages de la Sainte Vierge'' (1941).
Posthumous
* ''Mémoires'' (1943).
* ''Les Nourritures Célestes'' (1943).
* ''Shéhérazade'' (1943).
* ''Histoire des Pèlerinages de la Chrétienté'' (1948).
* ''Pierre Puget, Sculpteur, 1620-1694'' (1949).
Articles
* "Toulon et Pierre Puget", ''
La Revue Hebdomadaire,'' No. 10 (1914).
* "Quand Dieu Parle", ''La Revue Universelle,'' No. 15 (1926).
* "Mon frère le Dominicain: Son Enfance et sa Mort", ''Chroniques'', No. 4 (1927).
* "Les Chartreux, les Statuts et le Gouvernement d’un Grand Ordre", ''La Revue Universelle,'' (1928).
Works in English translation
* ''Saint Paul'' (1929).
* "The Catholic and Supernatural Novel." In: ''Fiction by its Makers'' (1928).
Notes
Further reading
* Alexander, Calvert (1935). ''The Catholic Literary Revival.'' Milwaukee: Bruce Pub.
* Lawhead, Alice (1941). ''The Reversibility of Grace in the Novels of Emile Baumann.'' (M.A.) Thesis: University of Notre Dame.
* McMahon, A. (1912)
"Catholic Ideals in Modern French Fiction,"''The American Catholic Quarterly Review,'' Vol. XXXVII, pp. 697–717.
* Seeley, Paul Alan (1995). ''Virile Pursuits: Youth, Religion, and Bourgeois Family Politics in Lyon on the Eve of the French Third Republic.'' (M.A.) Thesis: University of Michigan.
External links
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1868 births
1941 deaths
20th-century French male writers
20th-century French novelists
20th-century Roman Catholics
French male novelists
French Roman Catholic writers