Maurice Boy

Maurice Garçon (November 25th 1889 with Lille - December 29th 1967 with Paris) is a lawyer, essay writer, novelist and historian French.

Wire of a famous lawyer, he becomes lawyer at the bar of Paris in 1911. It defends a great number of causes, as well literary as criminal, in particular those of the Frères Goncourt, Georges Arnaud and of Violette Nozière.
En 1939, it will represent with Maître Maurice Loncle the German civil part in the business Grynszpan.

Impassioned esoteric literature, he writes several books on the Sorcellerie and gathers in his Parisian apartment of the Rue of the Spur a specialized library, which he will resell completely to buy a property in the Poitou, the castle of Montplaisir, close to Ligugé, where he receives many personalities of arts and letters. He contributes, with his friend Roland Dorgelès with the famous joke of table Sunset on the Adriatic by Boronali (anagram of Aliboron). He is elected member of the French Academy in 1946.

Works

the Devil, historical, critical and medical study (in collaboration with Jean Vinchon) (1926)
Vintras, hérésiarque and prophet (1928)
Rivet washer Sieve maker or the miraculous adventure (1929)
Three diabolic stories (1930)
Test on the legal eloquence (1931)
contemporary justice, 1870-1932 (1933)
justice in the Parnassus (1935)
Magdeleine of the Cross, diabolic abbess (1939)
unknown Huysmans, of ball of the Castle-red to the monastery of Ligugé (1941)
the customs officer Rousseau, naive defendant (1941)
Table of the legal eloquence (1943)
the Business Girard (1945)
On the various facts (1945)
execrable life of Guillemette Babin, witch (1946)
13 dramas of the poison (1948)
Plea for Rene Hardy (1950)
dark Lawsuits (1950)
Louis XVII or the False enigma (1952)
Under the mask of Molière (1953)
chimerical Pleas (1954)
the tumultuous existence of Maubreuil, marquis d' Orvault (1954)
Plea against Naundorff (1955)
Things and others (1956)
History of Justice under the IIIe Republic (1957)
Defense of individual freedom (1957)
the newspaper of a judge (1958)
the costume of the lawyers (1958)
curious Stories (1959)
the Lawyer and morals (1963)
New curious stories (1964)
Open letter with Justice (1966)
the Palate and the Academy (1966)

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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