Alexandre Breffort

Alexandre Breffort journalist, scenario writer, man of theater and French writer, born on November 22nd 1901 with Fourchambault (Nievre), deceased on February 22nd, 1972 in Paris.

Origin and course

The course of Alexandre Breffort is chaotic and picturesque. Originating in the Nievre, it is driven out elementary school of Évry. It follows initially courses of engraving to the school Boulle, gives up them, pushes handcarts on behalf of the Passementiers of the Path, prepares the Arts and Métiers with the school Lavoisier, becomes manufacturing employee for a house of the electricals appliance, corrector of printing works to Orleans and photoengraver with Paris. After its twenty years, it is thereafter Débardeur of barges on the Seine, shifting man (unloader of the trucks to the Markets), representing out of typewriters, salesman of fabrics with painting, employee in an insurance company, taxi driver (during 5 years. He will tell this experiment in a way very diverting in " My taxi and moi"), street pedlar in fabrics and covers. He meets “ there OJ-the-Eye-Dirty ”, taken again justice with which he joins to make “Batouse”, proceeded illegal of sale.

The connected Duck

It is engaged as writer with the Canard connected in 1934, after having sent an answer to a poem of Pierre Lord of the manor-Tailhade. The engagement of a writer without any experiment of press was an extremely rare fact with the Canard connected. After the Second world war, it finds the drafting of the newspaper. Its humor and its talent for the puns will quickly become proverbial.

Musical comedy

In 1960, Marguerite Monnot, type-setter appointed of Edith Piaf, will return to the musical comedy, after having hesitated much before writing the musics of Irma soft the , whose booklet is inspired by a short part of Alexandre Breffort “the terrible herrings” played by Michel Roux and Guy Pierraud in a cabaret of the avenue of the Opera, near to the comic Opéra, the " Head of the art".

The Second world war

Pacifist integral, it gains the Belgium in August 1939, passes in Holland to embark for Oslo, in company of friends who share his ideas, of which Roger Monclin, administrator of the human Fatherland . They were driven back by Norwegian, in direction of Stockholm, where there remained a few months in the mountainous region of Dalécarlie. It then continues to send its papers to the White Merle, which had reappeared in March 1939. Until the Agreements of armistices, he knew with his friends the Swedish prisons. In May 1941, it is return to Paris, without Roger Monclin, whose Germans refused the return because of its bonds with the Spanish anarchists. In March 1942, it is stopped for insubordination, it will be held for 4 months. One loses then his trace.

Quotations

God is an old Mister who adores to be made request .
When God has Petri the Earth of his crowned hands, it made a beautiful pellet .

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