Jean Amaury

Jean Amaury (Amiens 1900 - 1980) was a Journaliste, Photographe and writer French. He is in particular the author of We will not go more to Venice , the Lovers of Acapulco , Passion without reason with Bangkor .

Its life

Born in Amiens on January 1st 1900, Jean Amaury goes down from a long line of craftsmen sabot-makers. His/her father, Georges Amaury, wife in 1894 Evelyne Touquet, adoptive niece of Edouard Drumont. Evelyne appears an inaccurate wife. One lends to him a short relation with the pianist Artur Schnabel. Its adventures will follow one another until 1911 and will push Georges Amaury with the suicide by hanging.

The small Jean, deeply marked by the death of his father, will contain himself on itself and will become increasingly solitary. He will spend his time between daydreams, readings and walks along the Somme. He will never accept the remarriage of his mother (only two months after the death of Georges) with another sabot-maker amiénois, Gerhard Merle. The relations between Jean and his father-in-law are very tended. Jean is beaten on several occasions by that which it immortalisé under the features of François Lavilly in the Blackbird shot down (1924).

In 1911, the family moves with Carcassonne to escape the creditors. Start then for Jean three years of martyrdom which will inspire the play to him the late years (1959). The schoolboys of Carcassonne, “violent ones and cruel”, make undergo thousand humiliations in “weak north”. In 1914, the day before the war, the mother of Jean meets the writer Joe Bousquet with whom it will have an love affair. Jean, nauseated by the lightness of his mother, only goes back to Amiens and will place in his aunt, Marie Luisier, until his majority.

After not very convincing studies of right, Jean Amaury launches out in journalism. He learns photography and publishes his first reports in the Progress of the Sum (which will become the Picardy Mail in 1944).

Works

Romance

the Blackbird shot down , E. Malfère, Amiens, 1924
the Nights of Mekong , E. Malfère, Amiens, 1925
Passion without Reason with Bangkor , E. Malfère, Amiens, 1927
Love and Bagatelle , E. Malfère, Amiens, 1928
We will not go any more at Venice , E. Malfère, Amiens, 1929
the Whims of Roxane , Edgar E., Amiens, 1930
the Lovers of Acapulco , E. Malfère, Amiens, 1932

Tests

Virtues of the defeatism (proclamation), Editions of the Siren, Paris, 1929
the Collector , Yvert and Tellier, Amiens 1934
For a new prospect for the fulgurance of the extremes in contemporary photography , at the author, 1953

Accounts of voyage

Voyages to Luxembourg (3 volumes), the Editions of the Siren, Paris, 1935

Theater

the late Years , Paris, 1959

Quotations

If it sometimes happened to me to have children, they would be adult good before me ( the Late Years ).
You can strip me of all that I have, but never you will not have my money ( the Late Years ).
I want to be buried in the middle of the Garden of Luxembourg. On my tomb, I want that one registers: “I had however said that I wanted to be incinerated” ( the Late Years ).

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