Henri Vincenot

Henri Vincenot is a writer French, also painter and sculptor, born with Dijon in 1912 and died in Dijon on November 21st 1985.

Biography

Henri Vincenot passed his childhood in a family of peasants and craftsmen, in the middle of Burgundy. Graduate of HEC, it worked with the railroads, then as journalist with the newspaper the Life of the Rail (in the past named Our Trade ) of which it was during more than twenty years one of the principal writers. At the end of its life, it was withdrawn with Commarin (Coast-with Or) where it wrote the majority of its works.

Spirit of the work of Henri Vincenot

The work of Henri Vincenot is deeply marked by its attachment with the Burgundy. It gives in value the old Celtic pagan practices , while showing into which point they are integrated in the catholic popular culture. Its characters, often truculent, speak a language strongly impregnated about a Patois which, according to Vincenot, drift very right of the Celtic one. The novels of Henri Vincenot cannot however place it in the group of the writers of the soil such as those of the school known as of Brive. Indeed, it develops in each work a reflection on the Tradition, civilization, the History, which opens well its prospects beyond only Burgundian reality that it is liked so much to describe. Henri Vincenot was made the cantor of the slow civilization , this manner of living former to the railroads and the car. Some of its novels leave the Burgundian universe for the Brittany or the the Sahara.

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