Yvan Audouard was born the February 27th 1914 with Saigon (today Ho Chi Minh Ville) from a military father Avignon are born. He died in the night of Saturday 20 at Sunday March 21st 2004 in his residence Paris IEN.

Origin

Yvan Audouard was born from a military father and a mother bookseller, both natives of the South (Avignon and Marseilles). But it passes most of its childhood to Arles and Nimes: it will keep for the Provence a deep tenderness and a characteristic accent. It describes in particular its childhood with Arles and Nimes in “ the saber of my father ”. During its youths, it is a gay dog who creates the “ Parti legitimist mérovingien ” or militates in favor of the “ Comité for the commemoration of the passage of the the Alps by Hannibal ”. Holder of a license of letters, he becomes English professor at the end of the years 1930 and teaches with Bordeaux in 1938 and 1939, then with Arles of 1940 with 1942.

Journalist

He is journalist with the “ Journal ” folded up with Lyon during the war, and then with Franc-Tireur in 1944 (often under the pseudonym of François Fontvieille). In turn writer, humorist, storyteller, dialogist, it becomes, starting from 1945, journalist with Paris in various press agencies of which Paris-Press, Paris-Day and ORTF. It joined then the Canard Enchaîné where it works during about thirty years, by in particular holding “the box with images”, its famous chronicle tele, and also of the Album of the Countess. It moves away from the newspaper in the years 1990.

Writer

He publishes several humorous books as the connery is not any more what it was , of the lampoons like Lettre with the idiots , as well as a detective novel entitled Antoine the virtuous . He evokes also at the same time his memories and his childhood in the Saber of my father , the Provence and the the Camargue, the Tauromachie or the characters famous. Prize winner of the Rabelais Price in 1956, he is also the author of the dialogs of a score of films of the Sixties, interpreted inter alia by Fernandel, Lino Ventura, Eddie Constantine. He is the scenario writer of first film of Johnny Hallyday: From which do you come Johnny? He was the author of Open letter to the idiots (1974), the connery is not any more what it was (1993) and of Mr Jadis is of return (1994) Paul-Léautaud price. He had written provençaux tales: the saber of my father (1999). He was the father of the writer and editor Antoine Audouard.

Quotations

• Alas, nothing is never acquired with the man: neither its heart nor its layer

• They are the dissatisfied ones which will seize the power but those which will have known to turn dissatisfaction to their profit
• It is more pleasant to waste its talent than not to have
• One does not give of it go to his dreams. They come to visit you when they want of it and not when you need some
• the men and the women do not say really what they think from/to each other only in the moments when they do not say anything
• I know what I speak since I am one. (Title page of “Open letter to the idiots. ”)
• In the life, there are people who clink glasses so that the others can drink.
• What counts in the man, it is the windmill.
• the evil of the country that can destroy you a man. Sometimes, however, that makes it better.
• is to make honor with the sun to rise after him.
• greedy truths read by stirring up the lips to taste the words.
• the crickets were invented to make believe that silence is beautiful.

Works

• strong Liquors , 1946

• Search for Paul Valéry. Albi, Editions of the Languedoc, 1946.
• With the small hair . ED. scorpion, 1949.
• the beautiful clearing . Horay, 1953.
• Brown Except Series . ED. of Paris, 1955.
• Life with credit . Horay, 1955.
• Minute of mislaying . Fair series, 1956.
• Screen test . Fair series, 1956.
• Cartridge or the rage of living . Editions of Paris, 1957.
• With the beautiful hormone . Fair series, 1957.
• lions of Arles. Lausanne. Thune Of Guay, 1957.
• Feast . Lausanne. Thune Of Guay, 1960.
• the pastoral one of the Santons of Provence. Star, 1960. (with the coll.de Paul Durand)
• No panic . Plon, 1963.
• the Camargue. Meeting, 1965.
• adventures of the virtuous one: The virtuous one has all the defects . Plon, 1965.
• the virtuous one with Tahiti. Plon, 1965.
• easy ways . Plon, 1966.
• secrecies of their success, interviews almost imaginary . Pauvert, 1967.
• the virtuous one goes down to New York. Plon, 1967.
• the virtuous one in chickens.
• Good kisses of Fontvieille. Plon, 1970.
• Audouard tells Pagnol. Stock, 1973.
• Open letter with the idiots (Collection Open letter). Albin Michel, 1974.
• It is made late to have fun the festival . Albin Michel, 1976.
• To dine with Giscard. Plon, 1976.
• the summer-time . Stock, 1978.
• the lament of the shady pertubé . Jullian, 1979.
• the apprentice fada . Stock, 1979.
• a man with us . Hatchet, 1982.
• the leniency of Auguste . Albin Michel, 1985.
• Fifty years of impertinence . The pre one with the Clerks., 1987.
• new tales of my Provence. the pre one with the Clerks, 1987.
• Marie . Fixot, 1987. Collection “the Word and the Image”.
• beautiful blue the . Fixot, 1989.
• egoistic Almanac with the use of some . Shores, 1990.
• Letters of my pigeon . The pre one with the Clerks, 1991.
• My Provence. Novels and tales . Plon, 1993.
• the connery is not any more what it was . Plon, 1993.
• Provence, Shepherdess of light and wind . Laffont, 1995.