Jacques Laurent

Jacques Laurent (born January 5, 1919 in Paris ; † December 29, 2000 there ) was a French writer and journalist.

Life

Laurent received his education at the Lycée Condorcet . In addition to his writing and journalistic work, Laurent was also known for his work in Action française .

Jacques Laurent was a member of the Les Hussards literary group . He was elected to the Académie française on June 26, 1986 , where he followed Fernand Braudel to Fauteuil 15 . After Laurent's death on December 13, 2001, Frédéric Vitoux took this place.

reception

Laurent also wrote under various pseudonyms : Cécil Saint-Laurent and Cécil St. Laurent (folk novels, including the Caroline Chérie series ), Albéric Varenne (story), Gilles Bargy and Laurent Labattut (detective novels), Jean Parquin (theater critic) and Roland de Jarnèze (Emotional novels). Added to this is the work as a painter Dupont de Ménat .

Awards

• 1953 Prix ​​du Quai des Orfèvres for his novel Sophie et le crime .
• 1971 Prix ​​Goncourt for his novel Les Bêtises .
• Knight of the Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

Under his own name

prose

• La mort à boire. Novel . Stock, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-234-00547-7 (reprint of the Paris 1947 edition).
• Les Corps tranquilles. Novel . Stock, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-234-02339-4 (reprint of the Paris 1948 edition).
• Le Petit Canard. Novel . Grasset, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-246-13652-0 (Les cahiers rouge; 41).
• Les Bêtises. Novel . 2nd edition Grasset, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-253-01248-3 ( Le Livre de Poche ; 3526).
• Les Sous-Ensembles flous. Novel . Grasset, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-246-27051-0 .
• Les Dimanches de Mademoiselle Beaunon. Novel . Grasset, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-246-27061-8 .
• Le Dormeur debout. Novel . Gallimard, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-07-070496-3 .
• Women's mirror. Roman ("Le Miroir aux tiroirs"). Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-8105-1119-6 .
• L'Inconnu du temps qui passe. Novel . Grasset, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-246-44331-8 .
• Yes et la fin de tout. Novel . Grasset, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-246-50341-8 .

Non-fiction

• Paul and Jean-Paul . Essay . Grasset, Paris 1951 (Les cahiers irréguliers; 2).
• De Gaulle . The destruction of a legend (" Mauriac sous de Gaulle. Essay"). Desch Verlag, Munich 1966.
• Année 40. Londres, De Gaulle, Vichy ...; Essay . La Table ronde, Paris 1965 (with Gabriel Jeantet).
• La Fin de "Lamiel". Essay . Julliard , Paris 1966.
• Au contraire. Essay . La Table ronde, Paris 1967.
• Les choses que j'ai vues au Viêt Nam m'ont fait doutere de l'intelligence accidentale. Essay . La Table ronde, Paris 1968.
• Lettre ouverte aux étudiants. Essay . Albin Michel, Paris 1969.
• New perles de culture. Pastiches de Jean Giraudoux , Jean-Paul Sartre , Jacques Audiberti , Henry de Montherlant , Paul Claudel , Jean Cocteau , Albert Camus , François Mauriac , Jean Anouilh ; Essay . 3rd ed. Gallimard, Paris 1953 (together with Claude Martine).
• Histoire égoïste. Autobiography . La Table ronde, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-07-036993-5 .
• Le Nu vêtu et dévêtu. Essay . Gallimard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-07-035468-7 .
• Roman you roman. Essay . Gallimard , Paris 1980, ISBN 2-07-035421-0 (Colléction Idées; 421).
• Stendhal comme Stendhal ou le mensonge ambigu. Essay . Grasset, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-246-30911-5 .
• Le Français en cage. Essay . Grasset, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-246-40911-X .
• You mensonge. Essay . Plon, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-259-00348-6 .
• Moments particuliers. Essays . Grasset, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-246-54921-3 .
• L'Esprit des lettres . Éditions de Fallois, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-87706-358-5 .

Under the pseudonym Cécil Saint-Laurent

prose

• Caroline Chérie. In the beginning there was only love; Roman ("Caroline Chérie"). Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 3-548-22364-8 .
• The star of Venus shines dark red. Caroline Chérie and Juan d'Arranda; Roman ("Le Fils de Caroline Chérie"). Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1973, ISBN 3-404-00055-2 .
• Wild Rose. Roman ("Les Caprices de Caroline"). Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 1982, ISBN 3-8118-2214-4 .
• The light went out in the stairwell. Detective novel ("Sophie et le crime"). Amsel-Verlag, Berlin 1955 (Amsel-Kriminalromane).
• Poison and lust from a dark shell. Lucrezia Borgia; Roman ("Lucrèce Borgia"). Publisher of the European Library, Bonn 1954.
• The crime of Doctor Danieli. Detective novel ("Une sacrée salade"). Amsel-Verlag, Berlin 1955 (Amsel-Kriminalromane).
• The burning rose. Roman ("Prénom Clotilde"). Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1972, ISBN 3-7857-0115-2 .
• Violence and love. Roman ("Les Agités d'Alger"). Hieronimi publishing house, Bonn 1962.
• Hortense cycle ("Hortense 1914-18"). Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1971/72

1. The storm. Roman ("L'orage"). 1971.
2. A world of fire. Roman ("Jusq'à Verdun"). 1971.
3. Red flames in the snow. Roman (“Paix blanche, soir rouge”). 1972.
4. Smoldering embers. Roman ("L'année mutine"). 1972.
5. Vendanges sont faites. Novel . Presses de la Cité, Paris 1967.

• Christine or story of a marriage. Novel ( "La Bourgeoise"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979, ISBN 3-499-14112-4 .
• The chameleon lady ("La Mutante"). Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-550-06368-7 .
• L'Erreur. Novel . Mercure de Paris, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-07-038044-0 .

Under the pseudonym Albéric Varenne

• Quand la France occupait l'Europe. 1792-1815 . Perrin, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-262-00152-9 (reprint of the Paris 1948 edition).

Filmography

script

• 1953: Christian-Jaque (director): Lucrezia Borgia (based on his novel of the same name).
• 1954: Carmine Gallone (Director): The Daughter of Mata Hari ( La fille de Mata Hari )
• 1954: Jean Devaivre (director): Dunkelroter Venus Star (based on his novel of the same name).
• 1962: Henri Decoin (director): The iron mask ( Le masque de fer ).
• 1962: Jean Aurel (director): Night over Europe: 14–18 ( 14-18 ).
• 1964: Jean Aurel (director): Seductions (based on Stendhals De l'Amour ).
• 1964: Jean Aurel (Director): Victory in France ( La bataille de France ).
• 1967: Jacques Laurent (director): Little tree, little tree, change yourself ( 48 heures d'amour ).
• 1967: Denys de La Patellière (Director): Caroline Chérie (Beautiful as Sin) ( Caroline Chérie ).
• 1967: Jean Aurel (director): Lamiel - I love love (based on Stendhals Lamiel ).
• 1969: Jean Aurel (Director): Oh, these women ( Les femmes ).
• 1967 Jean Aurel (director): Unrestrained Manon (based on Antoine-François Prévost's Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut ).

Literary template

• 1950: Richard Pottier (Director): In the beginning there was only love ( Caroline Chérie )
• 1952: Jean Devraivre (director): My life for love ( Un caprice de Caroline Chérie )
• 1955: Pierre Gaspard-Huit (director): The girl from the 3rd floor ( Sophie et le crime )
• 1955: Augusto Genina (Director): Frou-Frou, the Parisian ( Frou-Frou )
• 1955: Pierre Gaspard-Huit (Director): Oh, la-la, Cherie ( Paris canaille )
• 1955: Max Ophüls (director): Lola Montez
• 1959: Jacqueline Audry (director): The Tsarin's Favorite ( Il cavaliere e la Zarina ).

literature

• Raphaël Chauvancy: Jacques Laurent . Éditions Pardès, Grez-sur-Loing 2009, ISBN 978-2-86714-422-6 .
• Bertrand de Saint-Vincent: Jacques Laurent alias Cécil Saint-Laurent . Julliard, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-260-01230-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Lamiel" is an unfinished novel by Stendhal
2. ↑ deals with the May 1968 deal
3. ^ A collection of essays from the magazines "La Table Ronde" and "La Parisienne", between 1947 and 1958
4. ↑ According to the KVK, this fifth volume has not yet been translated into German.
5. ↑ deals with the life of Charles d'Éon de Beaumont

Web links

• Literature by and about Jacques Laurent in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Inaugural speech by Frédéric Vitoux française at the Academy , held on 27 March 2003, in which he addresses the many pseudonyms of his predecessor.
• Jacques Laurent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Jacques Laurent in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)