Rene Bazin

See also: Bazin

Rene Bazin (December 26th 1853 with Angers - July 19th 1932) was a lawyer and law professor, but also a French writer, novelist, journalist, historian, essay writer and author of accounts of voyages, which became academician in 1903.

Biography

Rene Bazin is law professor with the free Faculty of Angers. Several times prize winner of the French Academy, in particular for its novel a spot of ink in 1888, it publishes books of voyages and collaborates in the Review of the Two Worlds like to various newspapers. After 1870, it is one of the writers of “revenge” with Oberlé and the Guide of the Emperor . He is elected member of the French Academy in 1903, after the success of the Oberlé (1901). However, in 1919, after the war, in “ new Oberlé ”, it writes a table, all in nuances, discovery of France by an Alsatian young person who chose to fight in the French Army.

These novels generally have as a framework the rural environment and peasant of the west of France. It described there the fight of Catholicism and the traditional values against the city, progress, atheism, revolutionary contagion, thus fitting in the agrarian mobility which will inspire then the mode of Vichy.

For example, the Earth which dies , published in 1899, evokes the drama of a doubly abandoned agricultural domain: on the one hand, by the great landowner who goes to Paris, and which, ruined, must sell to its pieces of furniture, and on the other hand by wire of the sharecropper in charge of the farm (one emigrates in America, the other becomes railwayman). However, ground finally " meurt" not, since the servant Jean Nesmy, accepted like son-in-law by the sharecropper after some reserves, takes again finally the exploitation.

Herve Bazin, also writer, was the great nephew of Rene Bazin.

Works

1884 : Stéphanette

1885 : My aunt Giron
1888: a spot of ink
1890: Noellet
1891: With the adventure
1891: Tales in worms
1892: the blue Teal
1892: the legend of holy Béga
1893: Mrs Corentine
1893: Sicily
1894: Italians of Today
1894: Humble love
1895: Ground of Spain
1896: In province
1897: tales of good Perrette
1897: Of all its heart
1898: History of twenty-four bells
1898: the ground which dies
1899: characters of novel
1899: Sketch of France and the East
1901: the guide of the Emperor
1901: Oberlé
1902: the sign of vessel Paul Henry
1903: Donatienne
1904 : Accounts of the plain and the mountain
1905: the duke of Nemours
1905: Isolated the
1906: literary and social Questions
1906: Italian Sketches
1907: the corn which raises
1908: Memories of an old maid
1909: the marriage of Miss Gimel
1910: the Barrier
1911: Soft France
1912: Davidée Birot
1913 : North-South , notes of voyage
1914: Gingolph abandoned the
1915: religious Pages
1916: Today and tomorrow
1917: the Countryside and the War. Notes of an amateur of color
1917: the Small estate of Champdollent
1919: new Oberlé
1921: Charles de Foucauld
1922: He was four small children
1924: the tale of the triplet
1926: Baltus Lorraine the
1926: Landscapes and country of Anjou
1928: Black and white X
1929: the king of the archers
1931: Magnificat

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