Paul-Théodore Acker (14 September 1874 – 27 June 1915) was a French-language writer of popular novels.
Biography
Paul Acker was born on 14 September 1874 in
Saverne
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.
A journalist, he contributed to ''
Le Gaulois
() was a French daily newspaper, founded in 1868 by Edmond Tarbé and Henry de Pène. After a printing stoppage, it was revived by Arthur Meyer in 1882 with notable collaborators Paul Bourget, Alfred Grévin, Abel Hermant, and Ernest Dau ...
'', ''
L'Écho de Paris
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The paper's editorial stance was initially conservative and nationalistic, but it later became close to the French Social Party. Its writers included Octave Mirbeau, Hen ...
'', ''
Revue des deux Mondes'', ''
L'Illustration
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'', ''
Revue de Paris
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'', and ''
Revue critique des idées et des livres
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''.
On 27 June 1915, he was killed in a car accident while on military service near the
Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on 11 August 1922. A memorial stele was erected in his memory by the
Souvenir français in
Goldbach.
Charles Maurras
Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet and critic. He was an organiser and principal philosopher of ''Action Française'', a political movement that was monarchist, corporatis ...
paid him posthumous tribute in his book ''Tombeaux'' and mentioned his membership in the
Action française
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.
Selected works
* ''Dispensé de l'Article 23'' (preface by Willy, illustrated cover by Charles Léandre), 1898, H. Simonis-Empis
* ''Un mari sans femme'', 1902, Librairie Molière
* ''Petites confessions. Visites et portraits'', 1905
* ''La Petite Madame de Thianges'', 1906, Calmann Lévy
* ''Le Désir de vivre'', 1907, Calmann Lévy
* ''Œuvres sociales des femmes'', 1908, Plon-Nourri
Read online* ''Le Soldat Bernard'', 1909, Fayard
* ''Les Exilés'', 1911, Plon (several editions until 1920)
* ''Le Beau Jardin'', 1910, Plon (several editions until 1919)
* ''Une ville industrielle alsacienne: Mulhouse'', 1912
* ''Les deux cahiers'', 1912, Plon-Nourri
Read online* ''Les deux amours'', 1914
* ''Les Demoiselles Bertram'', 1914, Plon-Nourrit
* ''Trois tombes'', 1916, Plon-Nourrit
* ''L'Oiseau vainqueur'', 1916, Flammarion
* ''Entre deux rives'', 1917, Plon
* ''Colmar : une ville alsacienne'', 1919, Éd. de la Haute-Alsace
* ''Tante Babiole'' -
Collection Stella
* ''Les Deux Cahiers'' -
Collection Stella
* ''Les Exilés'' -
Select-Collection
* ''Les Exilés'', preface by Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Éditions Laborintus, Lille-Paris, 2016,
Distinctions
* Paul Acker was awarded the first for his body of work in 1915.
* Paul Acker is listed among the writers who died for their country on the
Panthéon
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's list of people cited.
Notes and references
See also
*
Pierre Bucher
Bibliography
* Henry Bordeaux, ''Trois tombes. (La Prière pour les absents. Max Doumic. Paul Acker. Maurice Deroure. Les Honneurs aux morts.)'', Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1916, XIII-291 p.
* Alphonse Wollbrett, "Paul Acker", in ''
Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne
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The most widely exported ''nouveau'' wine is French wine Beaujolais ''nouveau'' which is released on the third Thursday of N ...
'', vol. 1, p. 13.
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20th-century French writers
20th-century French journalists
1874 births
People from Saverne
People from Bas-Rhin
1915 deaths
Road incident deaths in France
French military personnel of World War I