Andrée Viollis
Andrée Viollis (December 9 , 1870 – August 9 , 1950) was a French journalist and writer. A prominent figure in news journalism and major reporting, an anti-fascist and feminist activist, she won several awards, including the the Legion of Honour.
Early life and educataion
Andrée Françoise Claudius Jacquet de la Verryere[1] was born in Mées, December 9 , 1870, to a cultivated bourgeois family. After obtaining her baccalaureate, she studied studied at the Sorbonne and graduated from the University of Oxford.[2]
Career
After graduation, she turned to journalism and made her debut in the feminist newspaper La Fronde, run by Marguerite Durand.
She married Gustave Téry, professor of philosophy, with whom she had two children, including Simone Téry. In 1903, when Simone was four, Andree divorced Gustave.[2] In 1905, Henri d'Ardenne de Tizac, author of novels under the pseudonym of Jean Viollis, with whom she had two other children. With Jean, she became involved in literary journalism as a critic, columnist, serialist, and storyteller.
Viollis affiliated with L'Écho de Paris and Excelsior, writing in favor of women's emancipation and the rights of the mother.[2] From 1914, she worked at the newspaper Le Petit Parisien where she turned to major reporting and covered diverse areas, including sporting events, major trials, political interviews, and war correspondence. She investigated the USSR of 1927 ten years after the Bolshevik Revolution, testified to the Afghan civil war in 1929, to the Indian revolt in 1930, accompanied the Minister for the Colonies, Paul Reynaud in Indochina in 1931, and followed in 1932 the Shanghai incident. During the Popular Front, she joined forces with anti-fascist intellectuals and co-directed with André Chamson and Jean Guéhenno the weekly political-literary Vendredi , where she defended the cause of the Spanish Republic and of the victims of French colonization. In 1938, she joined the editorial staff of the communist daily Ce soir, edited by Louis Aragon and Jean-Richard Bloch.
Close to communist intellectual circles, she joined the Resistance in the southern zone during World War II, and put her journalist experience to work for this commitment, spending the war years in Lyon and Dieulefit. During the period of 1914 to 1916, she served as a nurse at the front, as well as at Bar-le-Duc and Sainte-Menehould .[2]
In 1945, Andrée Viollis worked again with Ce soir. She also collaborated with some publications of the communist movement. She took up major reports, which leads her to travel to South Africa.
Viollis died in Paris, August 9, 1950. She is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. Her grave does not include date of birth.
Selected works
- Criquet, Calmann-Lévy, 1913
- Lord Northcliffe, B. Grasset, 1919
- La perdrix dorée, Baudinière coll. "Les Maîtres de la plume", 1925
- La Vraie Mme de La Fayette, Bloud et Gay, 1926
- Seule en Russie, de la Baltique à la Caspienne, Gallimard, 1927
- Alsace et Lorraine au-dessus des passions, V. Attinger coll. "Occident", 1928
- L'Inde contre les Anglais, Éd. des portiques, 1930
- Tourmente sur l'Afghanistan, Librairie Valois, coll. "Explorations du monde nouveau", 1930
- Changhaï et le destin de la Chine, R.-A. Corrêa, coll. "Faits et gestes", 1933 (Introduction de Henri Rohrer)
- Le Japon et son empire, B. Grasset, coll. "Les Ecrits", 1933
- Le Japon intime, F. Aubier, coll. "des Documents", 1934
- Le Conflit sino-japonais, M. Maupoint, 1938
- Notre Tunisie, Gallimard, 1939
- Le Racisme hitlérien, machine de guerre contre la France, 1943
- Le Secret de la reine Christine, Éditions Agence Gutenberg, coll. "Les Vies illustres romancées", 1944
- Puycerrampion (avec Jean Viollis), la Bibliothèque française, 1947
- L'Afrique du Sud, cette inconnue, Hachette, coll. "Choses vues, aventures vécues", 1948
References
- ^ "Visionneuse". Archives départementales des Alpes de Haute Provence. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d "VIOLLIS Andrée [CLAUDIUS JACQUET DE LA VERRYERE Andrée, Françoise, Caroline, (...) - Maitron". maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 December 2019.
Bibliography
- Anne Renoult, Presses Universitaires de Rennes - Andrée Viollis: une femme journaliste coll. "Mnémosyne", 2004 ISBN 2-915751-02-1 Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle (2008). "Anne Renoult, Andrée Viollis. Une femme journaliste ; Alice-Anne Jeandel, Andrée Viollis : une femme grand reporter. Une écriture de l'événement, 1927-1939". Clio: 275–307.. (in French)
- Alice-Anne Jeandel, Andrée Viollis: Une femme grand reporter, une écriture de l'événement 1927-1939, Inter-National, 2006 ISBN 2-296-00699-X l'Harmattan (in French)
- Belle Indochine (in French)
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