Roger Peyrefitte

Roger Peyrefitte (Castrate, August 17th 1907 - Paris, November 5th 2000), notable Ecrivain, historian.

Biography

After a short career of diplomat, was during second half of the 20th century one of the most discussed French writers.

Roger Peyrefitte made his studies in various religious colleges (Jésuites and Lazaristes) of South-west, then with the Faculty of Arts of Toulouse, before entering to the Private school of political sciences, from where it leaves major in 1930. He will be embassy secretary to Athens of 1933 to 1938. Returned to Paris, it gives its resignation in October 1940 for personal reasons (according to its writings, following a suspicion of diversion of a teenager). Reinstated in May 1943, it is named in Paris. In February 1945, it will be constrained to withdraw diplomatic career; the same year marks the beginning of its activity of writer and historian.

Homosexual relationships

This work, published in 1944 at Jean Vigneau, brought from the start to him notoriety by obtaining the Prix Renaudot in 1945. The author caused there already the scandal by revealing not very orthodoxe tendencies in love: the book indeed describes the loves of two boys of fourteen and twelve years, within a catholic boarding school with the choking atmosphere. If sexuality is evoked there with discretion, it is nevertheless quite present makes in filigree some behind the exacerbated feelings of the boys - and, sometimes, those of the adults. As when the young Alexandre puts to his friend this question: “Georges, do you know the things that one should not know? ”

One can read this history moving like the tragic confrontation, within an exclusively male community, of two religions: that of the Christ, and that of the Boy. Each main character is more or less crossed by this fight between the mystic love and the love garçonnier, between the official Christianisme and the Pédérastie secretly triumphing. It is this quasi mythical character, joined to the scholarship of the author, the classicism of the style and a rigorous composition, which made Homosexual relationships a true book worship.

Twenty years after its publication, work was carried to the screen in a film of Jean Delannoy (1964), which accepted a triumphal reception with the Biennale de Venise. Without having the density and the depth of the novel, this adaptation is remarkably been useful by the young person Didier Haudepin (Alexandre), Michel Bouquet (the father of Trennes) and Louis Seigner (the Lauzon father).

It is during turning in the abbey of Royaumont that Roger Peyrefitte fell in love with Alain-Philippe Malagnac d' Argens de Villele, which was then fourteen years old. Their impassioned connection lasted several years, and was the subject, inter alia, of the accounts Our love and the Child of heart . It is to finance the various businesses undertaken by Malagnac in the Années 1980, that Roger Peyrefitte will sell his collections of currencies, rare books and sculptures ancient. Thereafter, Alain-Philippe Malagnac married Amanda Lear and found a tragic death in the fire of their house, three months only after the death of Roger Peyrefitte.

Historian and satirical author

In 1953, the Keys of saint Pierre where Peyrefitte brocardait the pope Pie XII made scandal. It is true that it there multiplied allusions veiled to homosexuality of Sovereign pontiff (or at least with that which it lent to him), but this veil precisely formed part of the play and made it all the more malicious. An good example is given by it in a passage, which is a purple passage, where it shows Pie XII who with the air to strip its clothing with the manner of a pretty woman; it calls at the beginning the pope “His Holiness”, which enables him thereafter always to speak about him while saying “She”. And it finishes by this sentence, in which Pie XII finds the male kind instantaneously: “Undoubtedly wanted he to put a term at this stripping which could not have limits more”. François Mauriac threatened to leave the Express train if this weekly magazine continued to make publicity for the book. The confrontation between the two writers was to be still exacerbated at the time of the exit of the film the Homosexual relationships , and it culminated with a wild open letter published by Peyrefitte, which did not hesitate to put over the public place manners of homosexual hidden of Mauriac and to treat it of Sanctimonious hypocrite.

the Keys of saint-Pierre making us a great number of revelations, one can wonder who Peyrefitte held them; in secret Propos it delivers the name of his adviser to us, Mgr Leon Gromier, canon of Saint-Pierre, Consulteur in Sacrée Congregation of the Rites and apostolic Protonotaire. This ecclesiastic seems to have been enough with the current from what occurred to the Vatican since we have about it the testimony of Mgr François Ducaud-Le Bourget. This last, wishing to write a book on the canonization of Black and white X, had required a document of the future Antonelli cardinal who answered him that it was about a secret part which he refused to communicate (it was not about the current cardinal Ennio Antonelli, which was only eighteen years old at the time, but future cardinal Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, which had some nearly sixty). The gotten rid of visitor went to see his old friend Mgr Gromier who gave him immediately what he wanted ( in François Ducaud-Le Bourget, black Masonry or the truth on the integrism , ED. Nicolas Imbert, Niort, 1974): it had in its library the prohibited document.

Such as us described Peyrefitte, this adviser enlightened seems to have been a rather austere man, deeply believing and of irreproachable manners; but it was scandalized by all that it saw and it was those which think that to make burst the scandals is the only means of making them disappear. It is believed readily that it was used as model to Mgr Belloro, which precisely was Préfet of Crowned the Congregation of the Rites and in which some would like to see only one purely imaginary character.

The very documented novels of Roger Peyrefitte are founded on actual facts, histories or of topicality.

But the majority of its works constitute primarily satires even if they are sometimes in on this side reality (cf the Embassies ).

Some of these works are addressed to the specialists ( Chevaliers of Malta , the Jews ), and even if the humor of Peyrefitte remains attractive, unquestionable in its works prove sometimes a little difficult for the layman ( Fils of the Light ).

In the majority of its works relating to contemporary subjects, it did not have of cease to denounce the personalities which would have had same manners only itself, and which hid them, as Henry de Montherlant (which it painted several times under the transparent pseudonym of Lionel de Beauséant) and, if it should be believed of it, the General secretary of the United Nations or even the Pope Jean XXIII (“that the familiar ones of the Vatican called Giovanna”, he in secret Propos writes). Roger Peyrefitte did not fail a remainder to denounce other turpitudes of the people whom it put in scene to amuse the reader, which made it frightening to attend. One of the rare personalities of which it spoke to in praise étaIt his friend the singer Sylvie Vartan (cf the child of heart ).

The man who loved the boys

Peyrefitte always openly proclaimed homosexual, or rather pederast: “I love the lambs, said it, not the sheep! ”. More still than Andre Gide, and contrary to Henry de Montherlant of which he was a long time the friend and the accomplice, he conceived his literary career like a courageous and assiduous militance in favor of the love of the boys.

This long combat for freedom in love did not prevent it besides from expressing on various occasions of sympathy to the catholic tradition. He died in 93 years, provided with the sacraments of the Church.

Its works were published in many languages and in particular in Greek in the form of serial at the end of the Années 1970, in a newspaper with great pulling of Athens under the name of Rozé Perfit .

Works

List principal works in the chronological order:

Homosexual relationships , novel, Jean Vigneau, 1944.
Miss de Murville , novel, Jean Vigneau, 1947
the Prince of Snows , drama in 3 acts, Jean Vigneau, 1947
Oracle , novel, Jean Vigneau, 1948 (ED. final in 1974)
singular Loves , novel, Jean Vigneau, 1949
the Death of a mother , ED. Flammarion, 1950
the Embassies , novel, ED. Flammarion, 1951
free Works - Roger Peyrefitte, etc ED. Arthème Beech, 1951.
Of Vesuvius in Etna , account, ED. Flammarion, 1952
End of the embassies , novel, ED. Flammarion, 1953
the Loves of Lucien de Samosate (translated from the Greek), ED. Flammarion, 1954
Keys of saint Pierre , novel, ED. Flammarion, 1955
Young preys , ED. Flammarion, 1956
Knights of Malta , ED. Flammarion, 1957
Exiled of Capri , ED. Flammarion, 1959
the night Spectator , dramatic dialog, ED. Flammarion, 1960
Wire of the Light , study on freemasonry, ED. Flammarion, 1961
the Nature of the prince , ED. Flammarion, 1963
Secrecies of the conclaves , ED. Flammarion, 1964
the Jews , ED. Flammarion, 1965
Our love , ED. Flammarion, 1967
the Americans , novel, ED. Flammarion, 1968
Of the French , novel, ED. Flammarion, 1970
Coloquinte , novel, ED. Flammarion, 1971
Manouche , account, ED. Flammarion, 1972
the Child Love , test, ED. Flammarion, 1972
a museum of the love , illustrated photographs of Marianne Haas, ED. rock, 1972
the MUSE garçonnière , texts translated from the Greek, ED. Flammarion, 1973
Tables of hunting, or extraordinary life of Fernand Legros , ED. Albin Michel, 1976
secret Remarks (volume 1), ED. Albin Michel, 1977
Trilogy on Alexandre the Large one, ED. Albin Michel

I. - the Youth of Alexandre , 1977
II. - Conquests of Alexandre , 1979
III. - Alexandre Large the , 1981

secret Remarks (volume 2), ED. Albin Michel, 1980
the Child of heart , account, ED. Albin Michel, 1978
Roy , novel, ED. Albin Michel, 1979
the Famous Writer , ED. Albin Michel, 1982
Henry de Montherlant - Roger Peyrefitte - Correspondence: (1938-1941) , presentation and notes of R. Peyrefitte and Pierre Sipriot, ED. Robert Laffont, 1983
the red Cassock , ED. from Mercure de France, 1983
Doucet Louis, told by… photographs by Rosine Mazin, ED. Sun, 1985
Voltaire, his youth and his time , biography, ED. Albin Michel 1985
Voltaire and Frederic II , ED. Albin Michel, 1992
Reflections on De Gaulle , Paris, ED. Regional, 1991
the Last of Sivry , novel, ED. rock, Monaco, 1993
Return in Sicily , ED. rock, Monaco, 1996

See too

Article '' Homosexual relationships '' on anglophone Wikipédia
Homosexual relationships , film 1964

External bond

Bibliopoche : All its publications with the format pocket
Interview with '' Radioscopie '' by Jacques Chancel
Roger Peyrefitte in the video files of the INA

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