Guy Rachet

Guy Rachet (born the December 27th 1930) is a writer and Archéologue French.

First steps

Resulting from an easy family of Narbonne, in the south of France (his/her grandfather, Gabriel, then his/her father, Marcel Rachet, were in particular pioneers of the Cinéma by opening some of the first French rooms of projection), Guy Rachet impassions himself as of his more young age for the Histoire, the Littérature and all the forms of science which it approaches as an autodidact, appearing a perfect dunce in the school. He writes its first novel with adolescence and will not consequently cease using its feather of which the weather will be his trade later.

Engaged in the army after the suicide of his/her father in 1948, Guy Rachet spends several months in Africa and tries to leave in Indo-China to fight there the Communisme, which refuses his/her mother (the majority was then at 21 years). After the departure of the latter for the the United States, Guy Rachet, despoiled of his heritage following a family murky story, will live odd jobs, before taking down a station with the American embassy with Paris. He resides then in a small apartment of the center of the capital, continuing to devour hundreds of works and in particular of archeology and Egyptology, impassioning himself for these two fields. He also becomes acquainted with people who will modify the course of his life like Gerard Magistry, celebrates antique dealer and brother of the decorator Madeleine Castaing, protective of the painter Soutine. Gerard Magistry will take Guy Rachet under his wing, becoming a little for him a second father. It is at that time still, which Guy Rachet sympathizes with Pierre Gripari, future author of the “Contes of the street Broca”, of which it will become one of the best friends.

The passion of archeology

At the beginning of the year sixty, Guy Rachet who however does not have the least diploma, arrives thanks to the knowledge acquired during 20 years to approach many archaeological celebrities like the Abbé Breuil and to even take down a position of director of archaeological excavations on a Gallo-Roman building site of the south of France. He meets over there a young grass archeologist 17 year old, Marie-Francoise, for whom he will have the love at first sight. Young people marry a few months later, in 1961 and will have eight children together.

The couple writes several works specialized like “the Archeology of the prehistoric Greece” or “the Dictionnaire of Greek Civilization”, which will be published at Marabout and Larousse. Until the beginning of the year 1980, the couple and their children will live chichement with the money little that pay to them the scientific works, managing all the same to make very long voyages by van in all the countries of the the Mediterranean and in particular with the the Middle East where Guy Rachet will meet celebrates it archeologist André Parrot on the site of Mari, in Syria.

Success and recognition

In 1979, Guy Rachet publishes at Lattès its first novel, “Massada, the Warriors of God”, who hardly meets success. It is only the following year which the writer finally will make known of the general public thanks to the “Orchards of Osiris”, historical novel whose action proceeds in Egypt, written in 1967 and which the young editor Olivier Orban agrees to publish. The book obtains in 1981 the Price RTL General public and becomes a best-seller sold with more 250 000 specimens, which will profit from a published continuation the following year, “Towards the Beautiful Occident”.

While continuing to write grinds archaeological works increasingly intended for many people (becoming thus one of principal the popularizers of archeology in France), Guy Rachet also puts at the regular writing historical novels which meet a satisfying echo and allow him to live suitably of its trade of writer.

Installed in Parisian suburbs, Guy Rachet is today an author and an archeologist recognized by his pars, even if he is often regarded as a specialist in Egypt, country to which he actually devoted very many works and where he travelled on several occasions.

Since 2006 Guy Rachet became Vice-Président of the Cercle Ernest Renan , history of the Religions, Biblique criticism and research center of of the origins of Christianity. '

Works

Dictionary of Greek Civilization , Larousse
Dictionary of Egyptian Civilization , Larousse, 1998,
Archeology of prehistoric Greece , Marabout
the universe of archeology, technique/history/assessment , Marabout, 1970
Of the disappeared Worlds , Hatchet
Explo Guide of Archeology , Hatchet
Massada, the Warriors of God , Lattès, republished with the Editions of the Rock under the title Cries Jerusalem
the Orchards of Osiris , Olivier Orban
Towards the Beautiful Occident , Olivier Orban
William the Conqueror , Olivier Orban
Théodora, Empress of the East , Olivier Orban
Messaline , Olivier Orban
Dictionary of Archeology , Robert Laffont
Néfertiti Queen of the Nile , Robert Laffont
the Seal of Satan , Robert Laffont
the Labyrinth of the Pharaons , Retz
the Lion of North , Robert Laffont
Ways of the Dawn , Robert Laffont
mystical and legendary Egypt , Sand
12 Work of Hercules , Gallimard
the Sign of the Bull , Gallimard
Upanishads major , Sand
the King David , Gallimard
Lalitavistara , Sand
Sun of Persia , the Roundtable
Book of Died of Old Egypt , the Rock
the secret Manuscript of the Nile , the Rock
Cléopâtre, the Twilight of a Queen , Critérion/Fleurus
Greece , Hermé
the Priest of Amon , the Rock
Tunisia , Hermé
Voyage in Egypt: David Roberts , Library of the Image
the Garden of the Rose , the Rock
the Mornings of France , Bartillat
Life of the Buddha , I have Lu
Morocco , Hermé
Egypt , Éditions of Lodi
the Road of the King , the Rock
Saint-Tropez, Porte the East , the Rock
the Pilgrimage of Greece , the Rock
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan , Hermé
the novel of the pyramids

Khéops and the Pyramid of the Sun , The Rock, 1997,
the stone Dream of Khéops , the Rock, 1997,
the unfinished Pyramid , the Rock, 1998,
Khéphren and the Pyramid of the Sphinx , the Rock, 1998,
Mykérinos and the divine Pyramid , the Rock, 1998,

the Newspaper of Sophie Clarency , the Archipelago
if Good match , the Archipelago
the Bible, Myth and Realities , the Rock
Ways of the Other World , Bartillat
the Lord of Snakes , the Archipelago

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