Claude Farrère

Claude Farrère , of his true name Frederic-Charles Bargone , born the April 27th 1876 with Lyon and dead the June 21st 1957 with Paris, is a French writer.

According to the traces of his father, a colonel of marines, it launches out in a military career and enters in 1894 to the Naval college. He is promoted ensign of vessel in 1899, lieutenant in 1906, then lieutenant commander in 1918. He resigns of the army in 1919 to devote itself entirely to the writing.

Its talent is worth a to him Prix Goncourt in 1905 with Civilized the . It takes as a starting point its experiment and by its voyages to write a very abundant work. He wrote mainly novels with success, but also of the accounts of voyages, works of navy and tests on the international topicality. He was the friend of Pierre Louÿs and Victor Segalen and carried a great regard to Pierre Loti. The work of Claude Farrère was sometimes brought closer to that of this last. Thus, it was interested particularly in Turkey, and especially in Japan to which it dedicated a friendship which was never contradicted. Claude Farrère was invited by the Japanese government in 1938 as a writer " indépendant". During this stay, it went in China of North, Korea and to the Manzhouguo and was decorated with the badge of second class about the crowned Treasury. Claude Farrère is also known amateurs of Fantastique for his collection the Other side , whose certain news was included in Fiction.

During the Inter-war period, it belonged to the drafting of the newspaper of the Cross-of-fire, the Torch .

The May 6th 1932, it interposed between the president Doumer and its assassin Paul Gorgulov. It was wounded of two balls in the arm.

Claude Farrère is elected with the French Academy the March 28th 1935, with the armchair of Louis Barthou, obtaining five votes moreover than his competitor, Paul Claudel.

Works

the Cyclone (1902)
Smoked of opium (1904)
Civilized the (1905) - Price Goncourt
the man who assassinated (1906)
to overcome the sea (1906)
Miss Dax, young girl (1907)
Three men and two women (1909)
the Battle (1909)
Small Allied the (1910)
Thomas the Sucking lamb (1911)
the House of the alive men (1911)
Seventeen stories of sailors (1914)
Fourteen stories of soldiers (1916)
Taken care of weapons (1917, in collaboration with L. Népoty)
the Last Goddess (1920)
Condemned to dead one (1920)
Roxelane (1920)
the Old History (1920)
Animals and people who liked (1920)
Croquis of the Far East (1921)
the Extraordinary Adventure of Achmet Pasha Djemaleddine (1921)
Contes ofOverseas and other worlds (1921)
the New men (1922)
Stamboul (1922)
Lyautey the African (1922)
Stories by far and of enough close (1923)
Three stories besides (1923)
My voyages: The walk of the Far East (vol. 1,1924),
Engagements and battles on sea (1925, in collaboration with the Commander Chack)
an adventure in love with Mister de Tourville (1925)
an young girl travelled (1925)
North Africa (1925)
My voyages: In the Mediterranean (vol. 2,1926)
Last God (1926)
Hundred million gold (1927)
the Other Side (1928)
the Hidden door (1929)
funeral March (1929)
Parcelled out (1929)
Parcelled out and the chief (1930)
Shahrâ sultana and the sea (1931)
the Atlantic in round (1932)
Two naval actions, 1914 (1932)
On sea, 1914 (1933)
the Four Ladies of Ankara (1933)
Squares It China Seas (1933)
Histoire of the French Navy (1934)
lost India (1935)
Sillages, the Mediterranean and ships (1936)
the man who was too tall (1936, in collaboration with Pierre Benoit)
Visite with the Spaniards (1937)
the spiritual Forces of the East (1937)
the Great Drama of Asia (1938)
Them Imaginary (1938)
the Eleventh Hour (1940)
the Man alone (1942)
Fern-Errol (1943)
the Second Door (1945)
the Mouth of the lion (1946)
the Guard with the doors of Asia (1946)
the heroic Sonata (1947)
Stopovers of Asia (1947)
Job, century XX (1949)
the tragic Sonata (1950)
I am sailor (1951)
the Last Door (1951)
the Traitor (1952)
the Sonata with the sea (1952)
the sentimental Election (1952)
the Small Cousins (1953)
My friend Pierre Louis (1953)
Jean-Baptizes Colbert (1954)
the Judge assassin (1954)
creative Lyautey (1955)

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