Jacques Bainville

Biography

Jacques Bainville studied with the Lycée Henri-Iv then followed studies of letters and history. He began his work in 1900, at the 20 years age, with Louis II of Bavaria .

Charles Maurras made it enter as journalist to the Gazette of France then to the French Action where it held the heading of foreign politics. Bainville also wrote for Freedom , Small Parisian the and the Belgian Nation . It ensured the direction of the newspaper the universal Review .

Great figure of the nationalist Monarchism and of the French Action, it exalta the policy of the French Monarchy ( French history , 1924) and worried about the weakness of the democracy vis-a-vis the German power ( the Third Republic , 1935). He is elected by twenty vote on twenty-seven voters with the French Academy in 1935 with armchair 34, succeeding Raymond Poincaré.

In a work noticed, the Political consequences of Peace , published in 1920, Jacques Bainville is also known to have denounced the Traité of Versailles of 1919 and the very important compensations requested from Germany. It estimated at it that this treaty humiliated the Germany and would in the near future push it in revenge and Bainville described there the process of release of the Second world war, namely the annexation of Austria by Reich, the crisis of Sudètes with Czechoslovakia and a German-Russian pact against Poland. Deeply anticommunist and anti-Germanist, it had a vision of the future of the 20th century which on the whole was checked with the horror of the Second world war: “it is about a too soft peace for what it has of hard, and too hard for what it has of soft”.

François Mauriac, renting the talents of analyst of Bainville, will write later: “Of a conjectural science, Bainville made an exact science. ”

At the time of its burial, the February 13rd 1936, the funerary procession caused a congestion due at the speed relatively low to which it advanced. In spite of him, Leon Blum, in a rosette car, was taken in the funerary procession. Militants of the French Action, regarding its attitude as provocative, broke the pane of its car and started with the molester. The intervention of workmen working on a nearby building site prevented that the socialist leader was not lynched. In sign of protest, a demonstration proceeds the Pantheon with the Bastille and is marked by some confrontations.

Posterity

There exists since 1977 a “Circle Jacques Bainville” (CJB), gathering the students of the French Action with the university of Assas.

At the time of the 70e birthday of its death, a “Day Jacques Bainville” took place saturdays February 25th 2006 with Paris. Various conferences were given:

that of Christophe Dickès, doctor of history, journalist with Canal Academy, radio of the Academy of Science morals and political, entitled “Jacques Bainville and Europe”;
that of Pierre Hillard, doctor of political science, professor of history, specialist in Germany and the European businesses, author of Minorities and regionalisms in federal Europe of the areas and of decomposition of the European nations , entitled “Jacques Bainville, a model to include/understand the future”;
that of Pierre Pujo, journalist, director of the newspaper Action Frenchwoman 2000 , author of One half-century of French Action and other Resistance, the French Action under the Occupation , entitled “Jacques Bainville and the French Action”.

Works

Louis II of Bavaria , Academic Bookstore Perrin, 1900. Republication, Complex, 1985,
Bismarck and France , New national bookstore, 1907. Republication, Godefroy de Bouillon, 1996,
the Blow of Agadir and the war of the East , New national bookstore, 1913
History of two people: France and German Empire , 1915
the War and Italy , 1916
Small Germanic Museum , literary Company of France, 1917
Russia in 1916 , 1917
History of three generations, 1918
How to place its fortune? , 1919
How was born the Russian Revolution, 1919
Political consequences of peace , foreword of Pierre Gaxotte, Nouvelle national Bookstore, 1920. Republication, A. Fayard, 1946; with a foreword of Edouard Husson, Gallimard, 2002; (Work available on Gallica at this address and the University of Quebec at this address)
Irony and poetry (with Charles Maurras and Leon Schulz), Pigeon, 1923
Filiations , 1923
Tyrrhenius , 1923
Heur and misfortune of the French , New national Bookstore, 1924 (Work available on Gallica at this address)
French history , ED. Arthème Beech, 1924 (Work free of rights, available on line on Indians and Drills). Republication, ED. Tallandier, coll Texto, 2007.
Eighteen Brumaire , 1925. Republication, Bernard Giovanangeli, 2002,
Foreword of Mirabeau or the royal revolution , of Herbert Van Leisen, B. Grasset, 1926
the Living room of Aliénor , 1926
romantic and realistic Germany , ED. Arthème Beech, 1927
young Critic dead , Editions of the Modern world, 1927. Extract available in line
To the Threshold of the century , 1927
Jaco and Lori , Bernard Grasset, 1927
the Old Utopian , 1927
Little story of France , illustrated by Job, Basket, Turns, 1928. Republication
Colors of time , 1928
the Cup of Saxony , 1928
the Living room of Aliénor , 1929
the Garden of the letters , the capitole, 1929
One Season at Thespis , Prométhée Editions, 1929
Napoleon , ED. Arthème Beech, 1931. Republication, Balland, 1995; Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, 2000, ASIN 2841910008; Gallimard, 2005. (Work available on the University of Quebec at this address)
Maxims and reflections , the city of the books, 1931
Seven doors of Thèbes , 1932
Astonishments of Michou , 1932
History of two people continued until Hitler , ED. Arthème Beech, 1933. (Work available on the University of Quebec at this address)
History of three generations, with an epilog for the fourth , Great historical studies, 1934
the Third Republic , Arthème Beech, 1935
Foreword of Jomini or the Soothsayer of Napoleon , Xavier de Courville, Pleon, 1935, ASIN: B000V98S72
the Dictators , the Denoël Editions and Steele, 1935. Republication: Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, 1996, ASIN 2841910199. (Work available on the University of Quebec at this address)

Posthumous works

Bonaparte in Egypt , 1936. Republication, Balland, 1997,
the Fortune of France , foreword of C. - J. Gignoux, foreword of Jean Marcel, Plon Bookstore, 1937. Republication, the editions varieties, 1944. (Work available on the University of Quebec at this address)
Russia and the barrier of the East , foreword of the count de Saint-Aulaire, foreword of Jean Marcel, Plon Bookstore, 1937. (Work available on the University of Quebec at this address)
Collection bainvillienne , 9 vol. (collection of articles), 1936 - 1949
Readings (collection of articles), 1937
England and British Empire , foreword of Morton Fullerton, Plon, 1938. (Work available on the University of Quebec at this address)
Must one say it? , ED. Arthème Beech, 1939
Germany , articles gathered by Mrs Jacques Bainville, foreword of Albert Rivaud member of the Institute, Plon Bookstore, Editions of history and art, Paris, 1939
Reflections on the policy , Plon, 1941 (Work available on Gallica at this address)
France , 2 vol. (collection of articles), 1946
Drafts and portraits , J. & R. Wittmann, 1946
How was made the Restoration of 1814 , ED. Coil, 1948 (Work available on Gallica at this address)
new Newspaper, 1914 , 1953
the democratic War, newspaper 1914-1915 , Bartillat, 2000, ISBN 284100239X

Translated works

Italy and the War , translated by Bernard Miall, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916
Two histories face to face, France versus Germany , New national bookstore, 1919, ASIN: B00086X8SC
Napoleon , translated by Hamish Miles, “Little, Brown, and company”, 1933. Republication, Simon Publications Inc., 2001,
The French Republic 1870 - 1935 , Wraps, 1936, ASIN: B000L5ZF68
History off France , D. Appleton-Century, 1939, ASIN: B00089JCE8
Napoleón , translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Porrúa, 1994,
Frankreichs Kriegsziel , Hamburg, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1939. Republication, Struckum Verl. für Ganzheitl., 1989,
will plow for the third time It República Francesa , Doncel, 1975,
Dictators , translated by J. Lewis May, London, Jonathan, 1937, (available on line on Internet Files). Republication, Wraps Kennikat Close, 1967

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