Andre Chaumeix

Andre Chaumeix , born with Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) the June 6th 1874 and dead the February 23rd 1955, is a journalist, critical and academician French.

Childhood and studies

Wire of Alexandre Chaumeix and Solange Fargeix, it makes her secondary studies with the Lycée Henri-Iv before entering to the National university in 1895. It obtains a license in right and aggregation of letters (1898) and spends two years to the French École of Rome.

Journalistic career

It enters in 1900 to the Journal of DEBATEs , of which he becomes editor association in 1905.

He collaborates then in newspapers such as the Gazette of the Art schools , the Gallic where he is charged with the literary column, the Review of Paris which he directs starting from 1920, Le Figaro of which he is editor association of 1926 with 1930, the Review of the two worlds where he holds the literary column before taking the direction in 1937 of it.

French Academy

He is elected with the French Academy on May 22nd 1930. It acquires a great influence there, making and demolishing the elections.

Having to receive under the cupola the writer François Mauriac, of which he appreciated the talent little, he makes a speech of enamelled anthology of spiritual perfidies, persiflant for example: “ You are the large Master of the bitterness to read you, Sir, I believed that you will disturb the harmonious image which I keep of your area I failed to take the Gironde for a river of fire, and Guyenne for a nest of vipers. ”

He dies in 1955 and is buried with the Cimetière of Passy.

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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