Francine Bloch

See also: Bloch

Francine Bloch (pseudonyms Francine de Bérys and Francine Béris ) is a “woman of letters and sounds” French born the October 4th 1916 and dead the October 28th 2005.

Biography

Francine Bloch was born with Lyon from Méda Palm and Joseph Bloch known as Jose de Bérys. It is of the family of Madeleine and Darius Milhaud, of Marcel Dassault, Pierre Vidal-Naquet…

Friend of youth of Eliane Amado Levy-Valensi, it maintains with the latter a regular correspondence throughout her life.

After having made studies of letters and philosophy, it obtains a post of professor of Letters, which it must give up for health reason. Looked after with the Mounts of Gold, it become acquainted there with Manaud de Batz, descendant of D' Artagnan and Jean de Batz, which will be his/her faithful friend until his death.

During the German Occupation, it becomes critical arts person for the Books of the South of Jean Ballard to Marseilles where it meets Emile Danoën which it will marry forty years later, on June 16th, 1984 with Meudon.

It gives conferences of Philosophie in Literary circles of Work's councils, of which that of postal and telecommunications authorities where it becomes acquainted with Gerald Neveu which it introduces with the Cahiers of the South . She collaborates in various reviews of which Constellation , Europe , Filmagazine , the Nave , Orphée , Revue Jewish thought , Revue of metaphysics and morals , philosophical Revue …; carry out reports for periodicals; writing of the tales and the news for weekly magazines ( It ,…) ; occupy a station of reader to the editions Sagittarius and completes work for the French Documentation.

Translator of English, it contributes, inter alia, with the French publication of works of William Saroyan, Destin of China of Tchang Kaï-Chek and, with François Lionnais, of Mathematics and imagination of Kasner and Newman.

She enters in 1949 to the National library of France, department of the record library within the framework of which she carries out nearly a hundred interviews of personalities of all the horizons.

She was promoted Chevalier of the academic Palmes in 1967 and Officier in 1981.

Francine Bloch died at the hospital Corentin Celton of Issy-Les-Moulineaux and was buried with the cemetery of Long Réages with Meudon.

Selection of work

; Works
  • the Disc in France, its primacy in sound recording , Paris, Notes and studies documentary, 1977, n° 4418
  • Phonography of Francis Poulenc , Paris, National library, 1984
  • Phonography of Darius Milhaud , Paris, National library, 1992

; Translations

  • Under the pseudonym Francine Béris, in collaboration with S.T. Vincenot: Destiny of China of the Marshal Tchang Kaï-Chek; presented and commented by Philipp Jaffe, Paris, Amiot-Dumont, 1949
  • Under the pseudonym Francine Béris, in collaboration with François Lionnais: mathematics and imagination of Edward Kasner and James Newman; with 179 figures of Rufus Isaacs, Paris, Payot, 1950

; Interviews within the framework of the National library of France

Notes and references of the article

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