Catherine Gide (18 April 1923 – 20 April 2013) was a French writer and editor. She was the daughter of

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his begi ...

and

Élisabeth van Rysselberghe Élisabeth van Rysselberghe (15 October 1890 – 29 July 1980) was a Belgian translator. She was the daughter of Belgian painter Théo van Rysselberghe. Biography Élisabeth van Rysselberghe was born on 15 October 1890 in Brussels, Belgium. She w ...

, daughter of

Théo van Rysselberghe Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian Neo-impressionism, neo-impressionist Painting, painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Bi ...

Biography

Catherine Gide was born in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; , also ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, regi ...

, France, on 18 April 1923. She was the natural daughter and only child of

, Nobel Prize for Literature, and

(daughter of Maria and painter

). She was recognized by her father on the death of Madeleine, wife of André Gide, and adopted on 26 July 1938. She first married the Germanist and academic (1914–1999); their son Nicolas, born in 1947, died young in a traffic accident, in 1986. They had three more children, Isabelle (born in 1945), Dominique (born in 1948), and Sophie. Gide later remarried to Pierre Desvignes. After his death she married the academic , a specialist in André Gide and his entourage. In 2009 she published the collection of interviews ''Entretiens 2002–2003''. With this publication, Gide shared for the first time personal memories about her childhood, while the public was presented with information about André Gide's role as father, which before the release of this work had been scarcely documented in secondary literature. Gide also edited, among others, ''Lettres à la Petite Dame : un petit à la campagne, juin 1924 – décembre 1926'', published by

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 G ...

in 2000. Gide lived for a long time in

Cabris Cabris (; ; Italian: ''Cabri'', formerly) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. The commune, just east of Grasse, is part of Préalpes d'Azur Regional Natural Park. Th ...

(Maritime Alps) in her vacation home. The Fondation Catherine Gide was created in 2007 at her initiative. It is headquartered in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. Its purpose is to "keep the memory of André Gide and of his time alive", fostering the "literary and cultural heritage of the author". In 2019 the foundation organized an exhibition in Paris on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of André Gide together with the Gallimard Gallery of Paris, the Fondation des Treilles, and the Musée Georges-Borias d’Uzès. Gide died on 20 April 2013 in

Olten Olten (; High Alemannic: ''Oute'') is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name. Olten grew into a town during the Middle Ages at the location of a bridge over the Aare. After a period of de ...

(German-speaking Switzerland), at the age of 90.

Bibliography

* Élisabeth Van Rysselberghe, ''Lettres à la Petite Dame : un petit à la campagne, juin 1924 – décembre 1926'', texts chosen and presented by Catherine Gide, Gallimard, 2000 * ''Théo Van Rysselberghe intime'', exposition, Le Lavandou, Espace culturel, 8 July – 18 September 2005, catalogue : Catherine Gide, Raphaël Dupouy, Jean-Paul Monery, Peter Schnyder * André Gide, ''Le Ramier'', foreword by Catherine Gide, preface by Jean-Claude Perrier, afterword by David H. Walker, Gallimard, 2002 * Maria van Rysselberghe, "L'Enfant Catherine", ''La Nouvelle Revue française'', No. 580, January 2007, pp. 108–130 * Théo Van Rysselberghe, Catherine Gide, ''Théo Van Rysselberghe intime'', Réseau Lalan, 2002, * Catherine Gide, ''Entretiens 2002–2003'', Gallimard, 2009

References

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