Alphonse Boudard

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Alphonse Boudard

Alphonse Boudard (born December 17, 1925 in Paris , † January 14, 2000 in Nice ) was a French writer .

Life

Born as the son of a prostitute and an unknown father in Paris's 15th arrondissement , his mother gave him to “Blanche and Auguste”, a couple living in Bellegarde, a very rural area near Orléans , immediately after birth . The war veteran and his wife raised the child “like a little mutt”. One day, as Boudard continues in his autobiography, he was visited by a young lady who was introduced to him as his 17-year-old mother who had fled a brothel .

At the age of seven, he was taken in by his grandmother, who lived in Paris' 13th arrondissement (also called Arrondissement des Gobelins ). The district, which is today dominated by Asia, was then a purely working-class district. Boudard attended the public elementary schools on the avenue de Choisy and the rue du Moulin-des-Prés and put his restraint and his rural accent in contact with the workers of Panhard & Levassor , life artists of the Butte aux Cailles , old warriors of the notorious punitive battalions d 'Afrique, or “Bats d'Af” for short, and the proletariat of this district quickly.

After completing elementary school, he began working in a foundry at the age of 15 , where he was trained as a typographer and later as an assistant typesetter . The Second World War marked a turning point in his life when he first joined the Resistance and later the Liberation around Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie and the troops of Colonel Fabien . He took part in the liberation of Paris , fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and received the Croix de guerre after being wounded .

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After the end of the war, like many other combatants, he found it difficult to find his way back to a regular life. "He believed and hoped the western would go on," commented his friend Louis Nucera later . For years, Boudard commuted between hospital stays to improve his tuberculosis, temporary jobs and petty crime involving counterfeit money, bill fraud and burglary, which earned him prison sentences that he served from 1947 to 1949 and from 1957 to 1961. During his last prison sentence, he began writing. He used the argot , the former French crooks jargon and the "Parisian vernacular" when he wrote about ordinary people, without money, without work, without a family and these stories formed a perfect alliance with his own previous life. Judged as "intelligent" by the prison authorities, he was given access to the library and thus to the literature of world history. Here the autodidact also acquired extensive general knowledge.

After his release in 1958, he finished La métamorphose des cloportes (The Metamorphosis of the Cellar Woods ), an examination of his prison time, with which he made his debut in 1962 and immediately became a bestseller. The novel was made into a film in 1965. This was followed by La cerise , again playing in the scene of jail brothers and petty criminals and in 1969 awarded the "Prix Sainte Beuve". In L'Hôpital he brought his own hospital experience to the table , and in Madame ... de Saint-Sulpice he broached his own passion for cathedrals for the first time .

In 1978 Boudard, who likes to describe himself as “bilingual” (because he writes in French and Argot), received the “Prix Renaudot” for his discussion of the war in Les combattants du petit bonheur . In 1978 he set a monument in Le Corbillard de Jules to his time in the Resistance and the merits of Colonel Fabien. In 1995 he was awarded the “ Grand Prix du Roman ” of the Académie française for Mourir d'enfance , his mother's life story .

On January 14, 2000, Boudard died of a heart attack at his home in Nice. He is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.

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Novels

  • La métamorphose des cloportes ("The metamorphosis of the wood lice ", Suhrkamp 1966)
  • La cerise
  • Bleubite
  • L'Hôpital
  • Cinoche
  • Les combattants du petit bonheur ("Heroes on good luck", Fischer 1987, ISBN 359625390X )
  • Le banquet des leopards
  • Le corbillard de Jules
  • Le café du pauvre
  • L'éducation d'Alphonse
  • Saint Fredo
  • Mourir d'enfance
  • Madame ... de Saint-Sulpice , Gallimard (1998), ISBN 2070402851 (French)
  • Chere visiteuse , Gallimard (2000), ISBN 2070411168 (French)
  • L'etrange Monsieur Joseph , Presses Pocket, P. (2000), ISBN 2266097903 (French)
  • Les Gens sans importance
  • Chère Visiteuse
  • Les Trois Mamans du petit Jesus , Librairie Generale Francaise, P. (2002), ISBN 2253152501 (French)
  • Alphonse Boudard and Romi: L'age d'or des maisons closes ("The golden age of the brothel", Wilhelm Heyne Verlag 1992), Munich ISBN 3-453-05181-5

Non-fiction

  • La méthode à Mimile ou l'argot sans peine , a dictionary of the argot
  • La fermeture, la fin des maisons closes (The end of the brothels)
  • Les grands criminels (The great criminals)
  • Contre-enquête ("counter-investigation", discussions)
  • Sur le bout de la langue, Promenade parmi les mots d'amour (stroll through the world of love words, illustrated by Albert Dubout )
  • L'etrange monsieur Joseph (biography of Joseph Joanovici )

Filmography

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  • 1966: Action Man
  • 1966: Blossoms, crooks and the night of Nice (Le jardinier d'Argenteuil)
  • 1968: Baldwin, the night ghost
  • 1969: Mushroom poison (L'assassin frappe à l'aube)
  • 1973: Escape in a circle (Le gang des otages)
  • 1975: Flic Story - duel in six rounds (Flic Story)
  • 1976: The Gang (Le Gang)
  • 1976: A priest, a tank and a bunch of tired soldiers (Le jour de gloire)
  • 1984: Hot Snow (Neige à Capri)
  • 1986: The Professional 2 (Le Solitaire)
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Remarks

  1. ↑ This and the following quotation are taken from Boudard's autobiographical novel Mourir d'enfance .
  2. ↑ “That was very lucky. I was nineteen years old. The weather was nice. I had a submachine gun. " (Another quote from the biography)
personal data
SURNAME Boudard, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2000
Place of death Nice