Eugene Roy

Life and works

1836 : birth of Eugene Roy, wire of a couple of servants of the baron Angel Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas, former minister, owner of the castle of Hautefort. Their employment forces his parents to place it as a nurse in a country-woman of the surroundings. Its memories of childhood will strongly mark its future work, in which the abandoned children abound, as in much of other contemporary novels. At Georges Sand, where the topics of the illegitimacy, abandonment, adultery, unhappy love affairs, anticlericalism and ``hatred'' of noble (forgeries especially, as at Roy) are also recurring; at G. Bruno, alias Augustine Fouillée, who puts in scenes two orphans in the tower of France by two children. The abandonment of children is an undeniable social reality which becomes one of the commonplaces of the popular romanticism of the time.
1841 - 1847: rural school of Hautefort at one time when the majority of the children remain illiterate.
1848 : of his stay with Périgueux, where he attends the School of the Brothers, Eugene will retain especially the memory of the plantation of a Arbre of Freedom to celebrate the advent of the Second Republic.
1851 : refusing the seminar, the teenager finds himself made grocer with Paris; he attends socialist craftsmen and, the rage in the middle, assists with the installation of the Second Empire. We do not have actually any proof of its hand concerning the Socialists of which it is question here: they are personnagres of its novels, the Mill of Frau for example, but we do not have any proof of their historical reality. On the other hand, its political convictions are established since 1860, date on which it passes the contest of the tax authorities.
1859 : engaged in a regiment of Hunters to horse, it takes part in the campaigns of Algérie then of Italy. Broken of its rank of sergeant for indiscipline, he resigns at the end of 5 years.
1860 : received with the contest of the Direct taxation, Eugene Roy becomes perceiving assistance with Périgueux.
1870 : after the rout of the Second Empire, it begins in the Francs-tireurs to fight the Prussian invader during the Franco-German Guerre. He answers the call of Gambetta which will be its model in policy.
1871 : once the final French defeat, it joined the perception of Montignac.
It falls very sick but cures only at the end of one year.
1877 : June 14th < Eugene Roy , the Editions of Black Périgord, 1978, p. 222>>, with the great indignation of the good company, the future writer civilly marries his partner Marie Peyronnet, of which it has already son a three year old, recognized during her birth on October 27th, 1874. Its nonconformism, but especially its republicanism, involves its revocation like thousands of other civils servant that grouvernement Mac-Mahon to revoke for the same causes. It will obtain its rehabilitation with difficulty the following year, for the good reason that Mac-Mahon is maintained with the capacity until 1879. Soon, it will devote the major part of its leisures to the writing, using materials stored during all its existence.

In 1877, it makes an application with the maconnic cabin " Persevering Friends and the Star of Vesone Réunis" with the East of Périgueux. But the prefect of the Dordogne received the order of the Minister of Interior Department, Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, to close certain Cabins of which this one. Eugene Roy is initiated only in 1878 after Mac Mahon lost the elections of October 1877 ( Histoire of Freemasonry in Périgord , Fanlac, 1989). From this moment, Eugene Roy written in the local newspapers, the Alarm clock of the Dordogne in particular, the republican articles and anticlericals. It follows in that the political orientation and philosophical of the radical Franc-Maçonnerie of the end of the 19th century which will direct the governments towards the Separation of the Church and the State. the Mill of Frau , first novel of Eugene Roy published in 1891, is a true lesson of radicalism under the IIIe République.

1890 : the Mill of Frau .

(Traditions and Revolutions in Périgord during second half of the 19th century.

_ “ It was in Périgueux, the evening of the Saint-Memory of the year 1844. We were with supper in our small housing of the street Héras; there was my uncle Sicaire, the miller of Frau, and its old comrade and friend, Mr. Masfrangeas, head clerk to the Prefecture, then me third, sixteen years funny young person. The fourth place was that of my mother; but the poor woman sat down only per moments, so much it was occupied service, as it is the habit among people of modest means, in our Périgord old man… ”

1891 : critical Studies on Christianity

Of 1891 with 1901, Eugene Roy writes a bulky manuscript (1086 pages) heading critical Etudes on Christianity . This text, deposited with the Departmental records of the Dordogne under the J2222 dimension, is published by the editions of the Roofing stone in Périgueux in 2007. The introductions of Guy Penaud, Richard Border and Jean Page detail in a very precise way the life of Eugene Roy, his political opinions and his course maconnic. It is about a lampoon anticlerical without concession where Roy seeks to show that the collusion between the temporal powers and spiritual is harmful with a nation. It draws from this work of the conclusions without call: “Thus it is seen, the Gospel did not invent a particular morals; there are not the morals of Jesus, that of Cicéron, that of Confucius etc, there is a universal morals, which makes meaning neither of times, neither of the places, nor of the people, who planes serene and immutable on the sectateurs of Jéhovah, Jupiter, Buddha and Christ. It is with this impersonal morals, spontaneous product of the human, moral conscience formulated unmemorable time by a crowd of men of good, that the Gospel borrowed its more beautiful precepts… " ( critical Studies , p. 353). The sum of the works concerning the history and the religion Christian women which Roy consulted to write this enormous work is impressive: if it refers continuously to Voltaire, mainly with the philosophical Dictionnaire , but also with Annals of the Empire, it also draws at Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paul Henri Thiry d' Holbach, Proudhon, Ernest Renan, Louis De Potter (History of Christianity and the Christian Churches) , Sauvestre, Paul Bert (the morals of the Jesuits) , Victor-Henri Debidour, Paul Parfait, Augustin Fabre, Mage and Alfred Loisy of which it undoubtedly read the Gospel and the Church published in 1902; it also quotes Pierre Leroux, freemason of Limoges and father of surprising the theory of the circulus which made howl to laugh the House of Commons; he also worked on the origins of contemporary France , Hippolyte Taine and on the origin of all the worships of Charles-François Dupuis, work published in 1822, on the Old Mode and the Revolution of Alexis de Tocqueville (quoted p. 573); but it also read catholic authors, Bossuet, the Dictionnaire of Theology of Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier, the Traité on the appearance of the spirits of Dom Calmet and many other works still which one suspects the presence with the wire of the pages, like Brantôme or the Nobla Leyczon of Vaud of which it quotes four worms of memory, or Huguenots: hundred years of persecution (1685 - 1789), of Charles Alfred de Janzé. This work shows without question the true personality of Roy and its dislike for the religious injustices and intolerances.

1896 : Miss of Ralphie .

(Forfeiture of a girl of the nobility devoured by passion during the Monarchy of July.)

_ “ the small manor house of Guersac is located on the edges of Vézère, not far from the area of the prehistoric caves which made a celebrity with these so picturesque cantons and formerly so unknown of Périgord… ”

1897 : Jacquou crunching it

(Revolts of a small farmer against the social injustices of its time, since the Restoration until the end of the 19th century.)

_ “ further which he remembers, it is 1815, the year that the foreigners came to Paris, and where Napoleon, called by the Sirs of the castle of Herm “the ogre of Corsica”, was sent to Sainte-Hélène, beyond the seas. In this time, mine were sharecroppers with Combenègre, bad field of the marquis de Nansac, on the skirt of forest Barade, in high Périgord… ”

1899 : people of Auberoque .

(Provincial Middle-class and mixing business and politics under the Second Empire and the Third Republic.)

_ “ It was a rainy afternoon of November of the year 1866. On the threshold of the office of the transport located Francheville places, in Périgueux, a famous young man, in overcoat of voyage, waited, leant with the casing… ”

1900: small Nicette and large Milou .

(Abandoned childhood: Restoration and Monarchy of July)

“ In the darkened night of cold fogs, the leprous walls of the old people's home of Hautefort are seen with large' pains. With thirty steps of the pinion of the old home of the chaplains, all against the wall of the small cemetery of the poor, where sleep as well of generations of poor wretches as death delivered, a man sat on the heels, watching for. ”

1902: the Rustic Year in Périgord .

(Pastoral Tables with the length of the months of the revolutionary calendar.)}
Eugene Roy takes his retirement with Montignac.

1904 : Refusal of the Legion of Honneur.

With the country of the stones . (Scenes of the country life during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.)

“ In the vast kitchen of the old country community of Agrafeils, at an end of the large table barlongue, about fifteen people had sat. At the high end the “Master” Bertrand Agrafeil, old sixty year old sat man. On its line was Francoise Agrafeil, the “housewife”, old girl around around fifty …”

1907: Buried civilly, Eugene Roy leaves a last work: Parpaillot, which will appear six years after its death under the title: ''' The Enemy of Dead the '''

(Solitary and vain Combat of a country doctor against the prejudices, conformisms and selfishnesses.)

_ “ One cannot say to the Juste of which of the three wire of Noah which were in the arch the Coal-scuttles are resulting. In the family, formerly, one disputed some. Late Doctor Nathan, catch have remaining, but a bit raillard at his hours, said that it was of Cham, because all those of the parentèle were moricauds small… ”

Quotations

“ My existence was not without sorrow, but it ran out at least without regrets and especially without remorse, which is not little of thing. ”
“ selfishness makes indignant me, spite exasperates me, the injustice revolts me, misery bleeds me the heart. ”
“ My catches is characters, not of imagination, but of observation. ”

Principal editions :

complete Works: Editions of Black Périgord , Périgueux
Choice (the Mill of Frau; Jacquou Crunching it; People of Auberoque; Nicette and Milou): Deliver Diderot club.
In collections of pocket : Jacquou Crunching it and the Enemy of Death.

Works adapted for television :

Jacquou Crunching it (Stellio Lorenzi, 1969)
the Enemy of dead (Roger Vrigny and Roger Kahane, 1981) the
During the first half of 2007, the Editions of the Roofing stone, from Périgueux, will publish the last new text of Eugene Roy: “Critical Studies on Christianity”

Biography and studies on the author and his work

Biography and studies on the author and his work
Guy Cistern, traditional life in Périgord of Eugene Roy , BT2 N° 167, CONCEALMENT 1984.
Guy Cistern, Traditions and Révolutions in Périgord of Eugene Roy , BT2 N° 167, CONCEALMENT 1984.
Marcel Secondat, Eugene known and unknown Roy , Editions of Black Périgord, 1978.
Site of the castle of Herm which inspired Eugene Roy for his novel '' Jacquou Crunching it ''.

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