See also: Duhamel

Georges Duhamel , born with Paris on June 30th, 1884 and died in Valmondois on April 13rd, 1966, was a writer and Poète French. Made famous for the writing of the Chronic of Pasquier , he was elected member of the French Academy in 1935 (appointed provisional perpetual secretary of 1939 to 1945) and a very active president with the revival of the the Alliance Fran1caise post-war period.

Biography

Georges Duhamel is born in the 13 {{E}} district from Paris, third child of a family of origin Norman which chichement saw activities of an odd and unstable father. After a childhood disturbed by the many removals of its family, he however manages to obtain his baccalaureat in 1902; he then decides to become doctor all while devoting himself to the letters.

Between 1906 and 1908, it creates with Charles Vildrac, which will become his/her beautiful brother, “the Abbaye of Creteil” or Groupe of the Abbey, phalanstery of artists gathering poets, writers, musicians and painters, experiment which it reported in a fictionalized way, although it was defended some, in the fifth volume of the series of the Chronique of Pasquier , the Desert of Beavers .

With the declaration of war of 1914, Georges Duhamel engages and exerts the trade of surgeon during four years, in very exposed situations often. From this painful experiment, it draws two accounts which bring an immediate notoriety to him: “ Life of the martyrs ” and “ Civilization ”, Price Goncourt in 1918. Returned to the civil life, it is devoted from now on entirely to the letters and the defense of a civilization with human face. In 1919, it discovers in Seine-et-Oise the valley of Sausseron and Valmondois, where it will spend all its summers.

In 1935, Georges Duhamel is elected with the French Academy with the armchair n° 30. Between 1930 and 1940, it achieves many voyages in France and abroad, defending by brilliant conferences the language and the culture Frenchwomen as well as the idea of a civilization built on the heart of the man and not on technological advance. Articles and conferences are gathered under various titles. It is at this same time that it begins its Chronique from Pasquier which will return it celebrates, according to the principle of the Roman-fleuve, and which is sometimes compared with the Rougon-Macquart of Zola. Started in 1933, it will finish it in 1945.

During the war 1939-1945, Georges Duhamel, appointed “provisional perpetual secretary” of the French Academy, sees its work prohibited by the Germans. It courageously holds head with the pressure of the occupant and the fraction Pétain ist of the French Academy, position for which the general de Gaulle will thank it publicly later.

After the war, it is named, in 1947, president of the the Alliance Fran1caise and takes again its voyages in favor of the French culture. It restores everywhere many schools of Alliance. Starting from 1960, its health declines, it reduces much its activities, and it dies in Valmondois on April 13rd, 1966.

He is the father of the type-setter Antoine Duhamel.

Works

; Accounts, novels, voyages, tests
  • Life of the martyrs (1917)
  • Civilization (1918, Price Goncourt)
  • Possession of the world (1919)
  • Talks in the tumult (1919)
  • Life and adventures of Salavin (1920-1932):
    • I. Confession of midnight
    • II. Two men
    • III. Newspaper of Salavin
    • IV. the Club of the Lyoneses
    • V. Such as in him even
  • abandoned Men (1921)
  • Lapointe and Ropiteau (1921)
  • Pleasures and the plays (1922)
  • the Prince Jaffar (1924)
  • Test on the novel (1925)
  • Pierre d' Horeb (1926)
  • Letters in Patagon (1926)
  • Test on a dramatic rebirth (1926)
  • the Voyage from Moscow (1927)
  • Images of Greece (1928)
  • the seven last Wounds (1928)
  • the Night of storm (1928)
  • Scenes of the future life (1930)
  • cordial Geography of Europe (1931)
  • twins of Vallangoujard (1931)
  • Family quarrels (1932)
  • Chronic of Pasquier : (1933-1945)
  • the Humanistic one and the Automat (1933)
  • Discours with the clouds (1934)
  • Remarques on the imaginary memories (1934)
  • Fables of my garden (1936)
  • Two owners (Erasme, Cervantes) (1937)
  • Esquisse for one carried of the modern surgeon (1938)
  • To the bedside of civilization (1938)
  • Mémorial of the white war (1939)
  • Finland (1940)
  • French Positions (1940)
  • Place of asylum (1940)
  • French Civilization (1944)
  • Chronic of the bitter Seasons (1944)
  • the Music consolatrice (1944)
  • Words of doctor (1944)
  • Images of our delivery (1944)
  • Lights on my life : (1944-1953)
    • I. Inventory of the abyss
    • II. Biography of my phantoms
    • III. search Time
    • IV. Weighing of the hearts
    • V. Hopes and the tests
  • Memories of the life of the Paradise (1946)
  • Faces (1946)
  • Homère at the XXe century (1947)
  • Sowing with the wind (1947)
  • Maintenance at the edge of the river (with Henri Mondor) (1947)
  • Tribulations of the hope (1947)
  • Consultation with the countries of Islam (1947)
  • the Bestiary and the herbarium (1948)
  • Holland (1949)
  • the Voyage of Patrice Périot (1950)
  • Cry the depths (1951)
  • Chronic of Paris at the time of Pasquier (1951)
  • Manual of the protester (1952)
  • Seen on Rimbaud (1952)
  • Japan between the tradition and the future (1953)
  • Travellers of the Hope (1953)
  • Refuges of the reading (1954)
  • Turkey, new power of Occident (1954)
  • the Archangel of the Adventure (1955)
  • Crusade against cancer (1955)
  • Companions of the Apocalypse (1956)
  • Pages of my diary (1956)
  • Israel, key of the East (1957)
  • Problems of the hour (1957)
  • the complex of Theophilus (1958)
  • Work, O my only rest (1959)
  • New of the dark empire (1960)
  • Problems of civilization (1961)
  • Treated departure (1961)
; Poetry
  • Of the legends, the battles (1907)
  • the Man at the head (1909)
  • According to my law (1910)
  • Notes on the poetic technique (with Charles Vildrac) (1910)
  • Companions (1912)
  • Elegies (1920)
  • Anthology of the French lyric poetry (1924)
  • Voice of the Old World, put in music by Albert Doyen (1925)
; Critical
  • critical Remarks (1912)
  • Paul Claudel (1913)
  • Poets and poetry (1914)
  • Maurice de Vlaminck (1927)
  • Defense of the Letters (1937)
  • Confessions without penitence (1941)
; Theater
  • the Light (1911)
  • In the shade of the statues (1912)
  • the Combat (1913)
  • the Cockroach (1916)
  • the Work of the athletes (1920)
  • When you want (1921)
  • the Day of the consents (1923)

Criticism

  • the critic Charles Of the Boss (1882-1939) said about the Confession of midnight that it account is worth by a cleanliness familiar similar to that of these rustic pieces of furniture which in wood these craftsmen of formerly cut, and where the ornament seems like the signature of a conscience in good state.

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