Émile Henriot (writer)

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Émile Henriot (born March 3, 1889 in Paris , † April 14, 1961 ibid) was a French journalist , writer and literary critic .

life and work

Émile Henriot was the son of the cartoonist Henri Maigrot (1857-1933), who carried the stage name Henriot. He wrote literary reviews throughout his life, first for Le Temps (France) , then for Le Monde , which were collected in many volumes under the title Courrier littéraire . In addition, he published numerous poems and novels. In 1946 he was accepted into the Académie française (election on April 12, 1945). Henriot was the first to use the term nouveau roman .

Works (selection)

Courrier littéraire

  • Courrier littéraire, Paris 1922 (191 pp.)
  • Livres et portraits, 3 vols., Paris 1923-1927, 1945
  • XVIIe siècle, 2 vol., Paris 1933, 1958-1959
  • XVIIIe siècle, 2 vol., Paris 1945, 1961-1962
  • XIXe siècle, 2 vol., Paris 1948, 1953-1954
  • XIXe-XXe siècles. Maîtres d'hier et contemporains, 2 vols., Paris 1955-1956
  • Courrier littéraire. Nouvelle édition augmentée, 8 vols., Paris 1958-1962

Other works

  • (Ed.) Nicolas Germain Léonard, Idylles et poèmes champêtres, Paris 1910
  • A quoi rêvent les jeunes gens. (Enquête sur la jeunesse littéraire), Paris 1913
  • (Ed.) Stendhal, De l'amour, Paris 1924
  • Stendhaliana, Paris 1924
  • Les Livres du second rayon, irréguliers et libertins, Paris 1925, 1948
  • (Ed.) Alfred de Musset, La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, Paris 1926
  • Voltaire et Frédéric II, Paris 1927
  • Alfred de Musset, Paris 1928, 1953
  • L'art de former une bibliothèque. Essai, Paris 1928, 1942
  • Esquisses et Notes de lecture, Paris 1928
  • Romanesques et romantiques, Paris 1930
  • Épistoliers et Mémorialistes, Paris 1931
  • Portraits de femmes. D'Héloïse à Marie Bashkirtseff. De Marie de France à Katherine Mansfield, 2 vols., Paris 1935-1937, 1950
  • (Ed.) Eugène Fromentin, Dominique, Paris 1936, 1950 (Classiques Garnier)
  • Portraits de femmes, Paris 1937
  • Poètes français. De Turold à André Chénier. De Lamartine à Valéry, 2 vols., Lyon 1944-1946

literature

  • Dictionnaire national des contemporains, ed. by Nath Imbert, Vol. 3, Paris 1939 (with picture)
  • Jeanine Moulin: Emile Henriot, poète du temps retrouvé, in: Revue générale belge March 1960
  • André Dulière, Emile Henriot. Sa vie, son œuvre, Pari 1963
  • André Dulière, Une Amitié littéraire. Correspondance d'Émile Henriot avec un jeune journaliste: 1950-1961, Lausanne 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Henriot, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1961
Place of death Paris