Jacques Chabannes

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Producer and realizer, Jacques Chabannes (1900 - 1994) worked during thirty-seven years with the Télévision. It in particular presented " TV-Paris " , then, during twenty-two years, of 1947 to 1969, the great appointment of the semi-day " Paris-Club " with its accomplice and creator of the emission: Roger Féral. Dialogist, writer prolix and popular, Jacques Chabannes was the first adapter of the repertory boulevardier on television.

The diversity of the life and the work of Jacques Chabannes diverts with the first access. It is that, as he said itself, he is unable to always make the same thing.

Novelist, it obtained a Grand Prix of French Academy with the Four Winds of the world , the Scarron price with Prince Carolus and the Grand Prix of the novel of adventures, with the assassin is late .

In the field of the literary history, we owe him a biography of the Glatigny poet (work crowned by the French Academy) and a book on the household of Molière, Miss Molière .

Historian, it wrote lives of saints: Holy Antoine de Padoue , holy Augustin , holy Bernard , two books on the French revolution Of the Furnace bridge to the scaffold and Loves under the Revolution and a study on the “Regicides”, overflight of the history of Clytemnestre with Oswald (Grand Prix of the Academy of Maine 1969).

The meeting of the scholarship and imagination was to lead it one day to write historical novels.

During ten years, it publishes in the black Fleuve, a series which constitutes a true “Fictionalized history of France”.

Gallant flayer (XVe sièc! E), the Lover of the Queens , One does not die of love , the Lovers of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre , the Assassins of the Gallant Green , My heart in Canada , the Escaped prisoner of the Bastille , the night of Thermidor, the stick in the giberne with the War of the wolves .

He wrote the subject or the dialogs of a score of films and the words of ten “tubes”.

He made play parts like the sentimental Pilgrimage , circular Voyage (with the Théâtre Montparnasse, put in scene by Gaston Baty), Halte with the destiny , Travelling companion , Pas of that on our premises (according to Sinclair Lewis), Mister and Mrs Molière , etc

He assembled large spectacles, like on July 14th of Romain Roland in 1936, and the festivals of the bimillenary of Paris, in 1952. After the release, it directed during ten years a large weekly magazine, Opéra, which it had founded in clandestinity.

Throughout his life, Jacques Chabannes knew or simply crossed very many personalities, as well of the politicians as of the spectacle or men of letters. He thus could leave a pleasant book of memories entitled Of A to Z, I knew them and published in 1984 by the Presses of the City.

Former president and honorary president of the Company of the Men of letters of France and the International federation of the Men of letters, he was president of the Association of the Writers combatants.

Having begun with the stammering radio, makes the dialogs of one of first talking films, it was during twenty years the organizer of the most Parisian French television program “Paris Club” then of an emission color: “One speaks about it”.

It adapted for Television more than one hundred parts of the repertory of the French theater.

Whereas it was still very young, Jean de Pierrefeu wrote on him: “It is at the same time an encyclopedic and impassioned spirit. There is nothing human which does not make it vibrate, metaphysics Bergson, with the exploits of the truck drivers of the Tour de France. An insatiable curiosity and an extraordinary activity are dissimulated under an air calm and considered, at this man smiling and courteous. ”

Jacques Chabannes was commander of the Legion of Honor, holder of the Military Cross 39/45 and the Medal of Resistance.

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