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Biography

Rene Bazin is law professor with the free Faculty of Angers. Several times prize winner of the French Academy, in particular for its novel a spot of ink in 1888, it publishes books of voyages and collaborates in the Review of the Two Worlds like to various newspapers. After 1870, it is one of the writers of “revenge” with Oberlé and the Guide of the Emperor . He is elected member of the French Academy in 1903, after the success of the Oberlé (1901). However, in 1919, after the war, in “ new Oberlé ”, it writes a table, all in nuances, discovery of France by an Alsatian young person who chose to fight in the French Army.

These novels generally have as a framework the rural environment and peasant of the west of France. It described there the fight of Catholicism and the traditional values against the city, progress, atheism, revolutionary contagion, thus fitting in the agrarian mobility which will inspire then the mode of Vichy.

For example, the Earth which dies , published in 1899, evokes the drama of a doubly abandoned agricultural domain: on the one hand, by the great landowner who goes to Paris, and which, ruined, must sell to its pieces of furniture, and on the other hand by wire of the sharecropper in charge of the farm (one emigrates in America, the other becomes railwayman). However, ground finally " meurt" not, since the servant Jean Nesmy, accepted like son-in-law by the sharecropper after some reserves, takes again finally the exploitation.

Herve Bazin, also writer, was the great nephew of Rene Bazin.

Works

1884 : Stéphanette

1885 : My aunt Giron

1888: a spot of ink

1890: Noellet

1891: With the adventure

1891: Tales in worms

1892: the blue Teal

1892: the legend of holy Béga

1893: Mrs Corentine

1893: Sicily

1894: Italians of Today

1894: Humble love

1895: Ground of Spain

1896: In province

1897: tales of good Perrette

1897: Of all its heart

1898: History of twenty-four bells

1898: the ground which dies

1899: characters of novel

1899: Sketch of France and the East

1901: the guide of the Emperor

1901: Oberlé

1902: the sign of vessel Paul Henry

1903: Donatienne

1904 : Accounts of the plain and the mountain

1905: the duke of Nemours

1905: Isolated the

1906: literary and social Questions

1906: Italian Sketches

1907: the corn which raises

1908: Memories of an old maid

1909: the marriage of Miss Gimel

1910: the Barrier

1911: Soft France

1912: Davidée Birot

1913 : North-South , notes of voyage

1914: Gingolph abandoned the

1915: religious Pages

1916: Today and tomorrow

1917: the Countryside and the War. Notes of an amateur of color

1917: the Small estate of Champdollent

1919: new Oberlé

1921: Charles de Foucauld

1922: He was four small children

1924: the tale of the triplet

1926: Baltus Lorraine the

1926: Landscapes and country of Anjou

1928: Black and white X

1929: the king of the archers

1931: Magnificat

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