Jean-Pierre Chabrol

Jean-Pierre Chabrol , born the June 11th 1925 with Chamborigaud (Gard) and dead on February 1st 2001 with Génolhac (Gard), is a French writer.

Biography

Jean-Pierre Chabrol was born and was high in the the Cevennes, within a family of teachers of the public school. His/her paternal grandfather, worthy biblical chevrier going down from the Camisards, will influence it much.

He carries out his primary and secondary studies with Alès where his/her parents teach in popular quarters. It is interested very early in the drawing and poetry.

After a rapid passage in Khâgne with Paris, it enters the Résistance to spring 1944 and is found “by chance” in a communist maquis. Engaged in the army of release which will lead it until Berlin, it will find the civil life only in 1946, in Paris.

As of this moment, the broad topics of its future work are established: Cévenne, the epopee of Camisards, the maquis and especially people of modest means, the People which it described so well.

It is with the drafting of the newspaper the Humanité where he works as a Dessinateur then as Journaliste (he will become about it chief of drafting) which he meets Louis Aragon which encourages it to write its first novel, the last cartridge . Others will follow regularly of which the end-scabious which obtains the populist Price. In spite of its distance of the Communist party in 1956, its books are translated into German (GDR), Czech, Bulgare,… He is the friend of Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Jacques Brel, Pierre Mac Orlan,…

He also takes part in the creation of a kind of cartoon humorous of moyenâgeux style barlafré the .

In 1961, it publishes the insane ones of God who will pass close to the Prix Goncourt and will be adapted for television. While continuing its trade of writer (the trilogy of the Rebellious ), it then will collaborate regularly in radio programs and of television. He travels much.

At the end of the years 1970, it collaborates in the writing of parts with the Theater of the Jacquerie.

Very affected by the death of many its close relations, it launches out then in a new career while assembling itself on scene like storyteller but it continues to publish various works, amongst other things in collaboration with his friend Claude Marti, or the inénarrable collection of satirical drawings entitled small illustrated Chabrol .

It will return fully to the literature in 1993 with the Happiness of the penguin , in homage to his father. the ice-barrier , published in 1998, will be adapted for television by his/her Elsa daughter.

After having made appear many songs in its books, he entrusts two of them to the wallono-Cevennes singer Jofroi.

He dies in the family farmhouse, in Pont of Rastel (commune of Génolhac) a few kilometres from Chamborigaud, during the night of the 1 {{er}} December 2001.

Principal literary works

Novels

the last cartridge (1953): a first partially autobiographical novel of a childhood alésienne and an engagement in resistance. The action moves then, in pure fiction, during the war of Indo-China.
the end-scabious (1955): Parisian suburbs in the years of post-war period. The job, life, people.
Fleur of spine (1957): “holidays” of summer in Corsica of “emigrants” on the Continent…
a man of too (1958): the maquis and men of the maquis with the daily newspaper. Costa-Gavras will draw from it a film in 1967 with a pleiad from famous actors.
the innocent ones of March (1959): last days of the Nazi Germany and a rare testimony on the “children of Führer”.
the insane ones of God (1961): Camisards and a diving in the Cevennes heart.
the red she-cat (1963): insane adventures in Paris according to war.
Thousand million Japaneses (1964): adventures of a French in Japan.
the rebels (1965-1966 and 1968): an enthralling fresco of the years 1930 in Paris, in Cévenne and Germany.
I will love you without shame (1967): a vibrating history of love which will give rise to its theatrical version " " My déchirure" " (1968).
the gun fraternity (1970): the Common of Paris in popular quarters. Truer than all the books of history and another glance on Paris.
the horses liked it (1972): a double portrait combining realism and smoothness.
the goat of the desert (1975): a strange historical reconstitution and much more than that.
Caminarèm (1978): written with the singer-poet occitan Claude Marti, it is the history upsetting and major revolt of the wine growers audois during the summer 1975.
Vladimir and the Jacques (1980): the novel of the creation of a play within an enthusiastic troop.
the lion died this evening (1982): laughing and desperate history of love tinted of mystery.
the happiness of the penguin (1993): left autobiography disguised in paternal biography.
consents of silence (1995): or the psychoanalyst handled…
the ice-barrier (1998): return over the period of the war with much of comprehension for its various categories of victims

News

the robber of weddings (1954): a collection forgotten well today…
Titanium and Bougrenette (1966): deliver illustrated for children
illustrates It armchair and other accounts (1967)
bursts It Cévenne (1972): a distress cry and of despair in front of a country which dies in the indifference.
Departure gates (1983): news of a large traveller; inspired of radiophonic chronicles.
Tales with semi-voice (1985)
thousand and one taken care (1997)
Angers in the Cevennes (2000): news and introspection. Jean Hur, the double arts person of Jean-Pierre Chabrol, disappears. Its creator tells us…

goodbye

See too

External bond

Association of the children and friends of Jean-Pierre Chabrol

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