Jean Cassou , born the July 9th 1897 with Deusto, close to Bilbao (Spain) and dead the January 18th 1986 with Paris), is a resistant writer, , art Critic and Poète French.

Biography

His father, engineer of Arts and manufactures, dead whereas it is only sixteen years old, Jean Cassou carries out his secondary studies with the Lycée Charlemagne while providing the needs of his family, then begins a Spanish license to the Faculty of Arts of Paris. He continues it in 1917 and 1918 while being Master of studies to the college of Bayonne and, deferred several times, is not mobilized for the Great War. Secretary of Pierre Louÿs, it holds starting from 1921 the chronicle Spanish Lettres in the review the Mercure de France. He makes a success of in 1923 the assistance of writer to the ministry for the State education and publishes in 1926 his Romance first .

Become Inspector of the Historic buildings in 1932, Jean Cassou is in 1934 member of the Comité of vigilance of the intellectuals antifascists and director starting from 1936 of the review Europe . In 1936 it takes part in the cabinet of Jean Zay, Minister for the state education and the Art schools of the Popular front. It is then favorable to the assistance with the Spanish République, approaches the Communist party with which it breaks in 1939 at the time of the Pacte germano-Soviet. While approach the German armies it is sent to the castle of Compiegne and devotes itself to the safeguard of the national heritage.

Revoked from its station of conservative of the Museum of modern art by the Mode of Vichy, it enters the Résistance as of September 1940, writing its first leaflets. Finding some of his friends who share his options, Claude Aveline, Agnès Humbert, it meets the clandestine group of the Musée of the man, Boris Vildé, Anatole Lewitsky and Paul Rivet. With Filbert, Agnes Humbert, Simone Martin-Chauffier and Marcel Abraham, it ensures the drafting of the newspaper of the group Résistance (six numbers of December 1940 to March 1941). While many members of the group of the Museum of the man are stopped, he escapes the Gestapo and takes refuge with Toulouse. Agent of the " Bertaux" network; as from August 1941, it is arrested in December for its activities with the Museum of the man and is imprisoned with Furgol where it composes of head, without the possibility of writing them, its Trentetrois tops made up with the secrecy , published in 1944 under the pseudonym of Jean Noir .

Released after one year of prison, it is sent by the DST to the camp of internment of Saint-Sulpice (Tarn). On injunction of Resistance to the director of DST, it is released in June 1943 and takes again its activities of resistant as inspector of the southern zone. He is also writer of the Cahiers of the Release and President of the Regional committee of Release of Toulouse. The Provisional government of the French Republic names it in June 1944 Commissaire of the Republic of the area of Toulouse. In August, at the time of the release of the city, its car meets a German column: two of his/her companions are killed and it is left for death. Transported at the hospital in the coma it is replaced but maintained in its title, of which it resigns after one year of convalescence.

In 1945 Jean Cassou finds his function of preserving as a chief of the National museums and is named preserving as a chief of the National museum of modern art, station which it occupies until in 1965. In 1971 it receives the national Grand Prix of the Letters and in 1983 the Grand Prix of the Company of the Men of letters for the whole of its work. He dies the January 18th 1986 and is buried with the Parisian Cimetière of Thiais. He was a militant credit of the Mouvement of Peace and was the brother-in-law of the philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch.

Sources

  • Biography of Jean Cassou on the site about the Release

Works

  • Praise of the Madness , 1925
  • the Harmonies Vienneses , novel, Paris, Emile Paul, 1926
  • the Key of the dreams , novel, 1928
  • Panorama of the contemporary Spanish literature , Paris, Kra, 1929 (éd.augm. 1931)
  • Nights of Musset , test, Paris, Emile Paul, 1931
  • Size and infamy of Tolstoï , test, Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1932
  • the Unknown ones in the cellar , novel, Paris, Gallimard, 1933
  • Massacres of Paris , novel, Paris, Gallimard, 1935
  • For poetry , test, Paris, Corréa, 1935
  • Storm on Spain , Paris, the real Man, 1936
  • the Quarrel of realism , Paris, ESI, 1936
  • Cervantes , Paris, ESI, 1936
  • Legion , Paris, Gallimard, 1939
  • Forty-eight , test, Paris, Gallimard, 1939
  • Thirty-three made up sonnets with the secrecy , Paris, Editions of Midnight, 1944; rééd. Poetry/Gallimard, 1995
  • the Center of the world , novel, Paris, Sagittarius, 1945
  • the hour of the choice (coll), Paris, Editions of Midnight, 1947
  • the revolutionary of 1848 , Paris, PUF, 1948
  • Situation of the Modern art , Paris, Editions of Midnight, 1950
  • the Free Track , Paris, Flammarion, 1951
  • short Memory , test, Paris, Editions of Midnight, 1954; rééd. Thousand and One Nights, 2001
  • Panorama of the contemporary Visual arts , Paris, Gallimard, 1960
  • Left taken , test, Paris, Albin Michel, 1961
  • Last thoughts of an in love , novel, Paris, Albin Michel, 1962
  • Vicinity of the caves , novel, Paris, Albin Michel, 1971
  • the Creation of the worlds , test, Paris, Working Editions, 1971)
  • a Life for freedom , test, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1981

  • the Rose and the wine

  • the madness of Amadis

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