Pierre-Henri Simon (born with the Saint-Extremely-on-Gironde the January 16th 1903 - died the September 20th 1972) was an engaged intellectual, historian of the literature, essay writer, novelist, poet, criticizes literary.

Wire of notary, Pierre-Henri Simon, after studies of letters higher than Louis-the-Large, entered to the National university in 1923. Professor with the colleges of Saint-Quentin and Chartres, it was named in 1928 with the pulpit of French literature of the catholic university of Lille. He was to thereafter choose to teach abroad, initially at the School of the High Studies of Ghent like at the University of Freiburg of 1950 to 1963.

He in particular was prisoner of war during the Second world war, in June 1940, he passed the war in Oflag to Nuremberg, then with the camp of reprisals of Lubec, Offlag X C. He wrote a test against the use of torture in reactions to the exactions made during the Guerre of Algeria and taken part in the newspapers Le Monde , the Review of Paris , Esprit and Journal of Geneva .

He was elected with the French Academy the November 10th 1966, with the armchair 7 qu number ' he occupied between Daniel-Rops and André Roussin.

Works

Tests

• Destinies of the person, 1935
• the catholics, the policy and the money, 1936
• the Church and the social revolution, 1938
• is Europe a aware? , 1953
• Against torture, 1957 (Lampoon)
• what I believe, 1966

Novels

• Valentine, 1931
• the Mounting, 1946
• the green Grapes, 1950
• That which was born one Sunday, 1952
• the Men do not want to die, 1953
• Portrait of an officer, 1958
• the Sleepwalker, 1960
• Histoire of a happiness, 1965
• For a twenty year old boy, 1967
• Questions with the scientists, 1969
• the Wisdom of the evening, 1971
• the man and his truth, 1972

Literary criticisms

• Georges Duhamel or the saved Middle-class man, 1947
• Mauriac by itself, 1953
• History of the French Literature of the XXe century, 1956
• Theater and Destin, 1959
• Presence of Camus, 1961
• the heroic Field of the French letters, 1963

Theater

• ballet of Modena, 1968

Price

• Price Eve Delacroix in 1963

External bond

• '' Vidéo: '' Pierre-Henri Simon in 1967, is expressed on the French littératue, a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision.