Claude Seignolle

Claude Seignolle , born the June 25th 1917 with Périgueux, is a writer French which started by collecting the legendary inheritance of the French areas, before developing a very personal literary work.

Biography

Youths

Born with Périgueux in 1917, its childhood is held in the countryside where its principal occupation is to collect and collect all that seems to him worthy of interest: stones and flints, but especially fossil and old currencies. It is also very attentive with the tales and legends which his/her grandmother tells him, from where its taste for the mysteries of the night and all the kinds of mischiefs. At the twelve years age, its family moves with Châtenay-Malabry. It is provided education for with the Lakanal college with Sceaux, where its professor of history encourages it in his archaeological vocation . It is returned of this college for absenteeism and scorns work in the family company. Thereafter, he attends the French prehistoric Company of which one of the speakers is the abbot Henri Breuil and where he makes the meeting of famous the folklorist Arnold Van Gennep. Determining meeting, which will make it pass from the mineralogical inheritance to that of the folklore and the legendary one. With his Jacques brother, it will furrow the Hurepoix during two years and will be made collecting rural traditions, being interested in the rites of the festivals, the superstitions, etc In 1937, it Co-sign with his brother the Folklore of Hurepoix , delivers well accommodated, in particular by Pierre Mac Orlan and Blaise Cendrars. This first work will be followed many others devoted to the popular culture, but also of a more personal literary work. In 1945, appears its first novel: the Round of the wizards .

The writer

Work

Novels

1945 : the round of wizard
1949: Marie the she-wolf
1952: Malvenue
1959: the fog will not rise any more
1959: devil in shoe

News

1947 : the leader of wolves

1958: the black sideboard - My court of the miracles

1959: the fog will not rise any more - the devil in shoes

1960: Chupador - the gâloup

1962: what Jacob told me - Wished the leech - the lame heart - the devil in shoes

1963: Delphine - the round of the wizards

1964: And if it were? - The man who could not die - Christ is avenged - the reaper - the others and me - Minnah the star - beautiful bewitched - a small monster to be rented with the fifteen minutes

1965: execution - the bin - the thousandths candle - turned sour hearts - Poor Sonia

1966: That which was always cold - As an odor of wolf - Two teeth, not more - the man who knew in advance - the Isabelle - memory of wood - the end of the world - Matagot - the mirror - Gorel - Not me! - Taken between god and devil - an exorcism - a meticulous chance

1967: This Martin there - That which rubbed there - the inn of Larzac - the rotted dog - the last visitor - the sleeper - Hupeur - the merchant of rats - the return to Tiburiac - horses of the night - two feathers - Lou Siblaire - Nights

1969: Each thing in its place - the impossédable - the Odile - the gained girl - the cursed virgin - the venom of the tree - pinks of in Top - One taken care

1971: the layer lost - the large one sold - an earthy Louis

1972: From which came this blood?

1974 : One never should awake the legends - Crested and Pupuler - the oubliette - panard - the stone hand - the bite of Satan - But which is strongest? - An old music lover - a rape - a childhood witch - a health of cherry tree

Tests

1964 : Gospels of the devil
1970: green wolves

Collections

1962 : Malvenue
1962: a corbel of all the colors
1965: malefic Stories
1965: diabolic Malvenue and other accounts
1966: macabre Tales
1967: horses of the night, and other cruel accounts
1969: poisonous Stories
1971: Delphine or the night of the Markets
1974: Tales wizard
1979: strange Stories
1984: the night of the markets
1984: the curses (2 volumes)
1985: circles of the fear
1988: Stories witch
1989: With the sign of strange the

Folklore

In 1997, a republication of tales was born under the title: Tales, accounts and legends of the countries of France :

volume 1: Brittany, Normandy, Poitou, Charentes, Guyenne, Gascogne, Pays Basque
volume 2: Paris, Ile-de-France, Loire Valley, Berry, the Sologne, the Limousin
volume 3: Provence, Corsica, Languedoc-Roussillon, the Alps, Auvergne
volume 4: North, Flandres, Artois, Picardy, Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace, Burgundy, Franche-Comté

External bonds

Claude Seignolle, 70 years of covers Official site of the author

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