See also: Lacretelle

Jacques de Lacretelle (July 14th 1888 with Cormatin (Saône-et-Loire) - January 2nd 1985) is a French writer.

Descendant of Jean-Charles de Lacretelle.

After the death of his father, it was raised by his grandfather Pierre-Henri de Lacretelle.

During the First World War, it cannot remain on the face for health reasons and is devoted then to the literature.

It belonged to the drafting of the newspaper of the Cross-of-fire, the Torch .

He is elected on November 12th 1936 with armchair 39 of the French Academy.

Of a pessimistic naturalness, the author written without worrying about conventions, in particular in its novel " Bonifas" (female homosexuality) and in its chief of work " Silbermann" .

It has as a grand-daughter Hortense de Labriffe, wife of the socialist deputy Arnaud Montebourg.

Works

• 1921 the life worries about Jean Hermelin (Grasset)

• 1922 Silbermann (Gallimard) Prix Femina
• 1925 Bonifas (Gallimard)
• 1925 Mélanges on the love and the books, finished by a sending (Gallimard)
• 1926 Trébuchet. Died of the jealousy (the Lamp of Aladdin)
• 1926 Spanish Letters (Gallimard)
• 1926 Four studies on Gobineau (the Lamp of Aladdin)
• 1927 Aside. Anger. Newspaper of anger. Ten days with Ermenonville (Gallimard)
• 1927 Seen (Marcelle Lesage)
• 1927 romantic Daydreams. Ten days with Ermenonville. The Parisian dreamer (Stendhal)
• 1927 Virginia, or the manias (Champion (Edouard))
• 1928 Of a hill. Four days with Bayreuth (Free Books)
• 1928 the hidden heart, new (Gallimard)
• 1928 Four Italian news (Lemarget)
• 1928 Neapolitan Album (Hazan)
• 1928 Studies (Bookstore Picardy)
• 1929 History of Paola Ferrari (Flammarion)
• 1929 the return of Silbermann (Gallimard)
• 1930 bridal Love (Gallimard)
• 1930 To the meeting of France (Spring wheat)
• 1930 the demigod or the voyage in Greece (Grasset)
• 1930 Presentiments (Four Ways)
• 1931 Luce, or the childhood of a courtesan (Spring wheat)
• 1932 High Bridges. I. Sabine (Gallimard)
• 1933 High Bridges. II. Engagement (Gallimard)
• 1934 studied consents (Gallimard)
• 1935 High Bridges. III. Years of hope (Gallimard)
• 1935 High Bridges. IV. The lead currency (Gallimard)
• 1936 the public writer (Gallimard)
• 1936 Which is Castling? (Flammarion)
• 1938 selected Pieces (Gallimard)
• 1939 Cruisings out of turbid water, notebooks of voyage (Gallimard)
• 1940 Canada enters in war. Things seen (Flammarion)
• 1941 the Hour which sings (Medium of the world)
• 1945 Libérations (Brentano' S)
• 1946 Idées in a hat (the Rock)
• 1946 For and Against (Medium of the world)
• 1953 a visit in summer, coin in four acts (Gallimard)
• 1953 Two simple hearts (Gallimard)
• 1958 Paris. Presentation of Jacques de Lacretelle. Photographs of Jacques Swell (Hatchet)
• 1959 the Masters and the Friends. Literary studies and memories (Wesmael-Charlier)
• 1959 the secret drawer (Wesmael-Charlier)
• 1963 the gallery of the lovers, Anthology of love letters (I) (academic Bookstore Perrin)
• 1964 love on the place, Anthology of love letters (II) (academic Bookstore Perrin)
• 1964 Portraits of yesterday and figures of today (academic Bookstore Perrin)
• 1974 Log book (Grasset)
• 1977 the alive ones and their shade (Grasset)
• 1981 When the destiny carries out us (Grasset)

Silbermann

It is the history of a Jew which enters to the college and which will live a horror because of its origins. The narrator becomes his friend and gives up his former comrades who treat it like " a chose" and it helps it to support the mockeries who become increasingly violent.

Distinctions

• Large Officer of the Legion of Honor
• Commander of Arts and the Letters

External bond

• Biographical note of the French Academy