Carlo Bronne

Carlo Bronne (born May 29, 1901 in Liège , Province of Liège ; † July 25, 1987 ibid) was a Belgian lawyer , journalist and writer , who was most recently President of the Court of Appeal in Liège and primarily through his numerous books and essays on the history of Belgium and famous people from Belgian history.

Life

Career as a lawyer and judge

After attending the humanistic high school in Liège, Bronne moved with his parents to Paris , where he completed his baccalaureate at the Lycée Carnot in 1919 . He then completed a law degree at the University of Liège in 1925 as a doctor of law and then worked as a lawyer in Paris for a year before he was admitted to the bar in Liège in 1926. In addition to his professional activities, he was temporarily as a court reporter for the Journal de Liège Journal operates.

In 1930 he was judge at the Court of First Instance in Liège, then in 1931 at the Court of First Instance in Verviers and again in 1933 at the Court of First Instance in Liège. After he was President of the Military Tribunal in Namur in 1944 , he became a judge at the Court of Appeal in Liège in 1946 and also President of the Belgian Military Tribunal. Most recently, in 1960, he was President of the Liege Court of Appeal, which is responsible for the provinces of Liege, Luxembourg and Namur , and held this office until he retired .

Writing career

Bronne has written numerous articles for numerous French- language daily newspapers and magazines such as Le Figaro , Mercure de France , L'Express , Le Soir , Revue des Deux Mondes , Les Nouvelles Littéraires and the Journal de Genève .

He achieved first notoriety through his early poems , which were shaped by life in the province of Liège and were awarded the Prix ​​Verhaeren named after Émile Verhaeren in 1930 .

He became far better known for his historical and chronistic works such as the extensive treatise Léopold Ier et son temps (1942) on King Leopold I , which was published in numerous new editions. Other well-known works of this type were L'amalgame (1948) and Albert Ier, le roi sans terre (1983). He also wrote numerous essays such as Esquisses au crayon tendre (1942), Rilke, Gide et Verhaeren (1955) and Le promenoir des amis (1967).

In 1948 he became a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique , of which he became director in 1962. He was also a corresponding member of the Institut de France , co-founder of the Belgian Society for Research on Napoleon Bonaparte in 1950 and a member of the Monaco Literature Council in 1959 .

For his literary and cultural achievements, he was honored with the Prix ​​quinquennal de l'Essai for L'amalgame in 1951 and the Prix ​​quinquennal de littérature in 1975 for his complete works.

Publications

La comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau et la musique russe , 1935 Esquisses au crayon tendre , 1942 La comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau , 1945 Nouvelles esquisses , 1946 Léopold Ier et son temps , 1947 L'amalgame , 1948 La comtesse Le Hon et la première ambassade de Belgique à Paris , 1952 Hôtel de l'Aigle noire , 1954 Rilke, Gide et Verhaeren , 1955 Le miroir de la Belgique , 1957 Hommes de coeur et femmes de tête , 1958 La vie impétueuse de Malou-Riga (1753-1827) , 1962 Profiles perdus , 1963 Albert Ier , 1965 Le bonheur d'Orphée , 1965 Histoires de Belgique , 1967 Le promenoir des amis , 1967

Financiers et comédiens au XVIIIe siècle , 1969 Bleu d'Ardenne , 1969 Madame de Nettine, Banquière des Pays-Bas , 1969 Concours musical international Reine Élisabeth , 1972 Les roses de cire , 1972 Un Américain en Ardenne et autres perspectives forestières , 1974 Compère qu'as-tu vu? , 1975 Elisabeth de Belgique , 1976 Le temps des vendanges , 1976 Il a neige sur Nevermore , 1978 Belœil et la maison de Ligne , 1979 Bruxelles vue par les peintres naïfs , 1979 Grandes heures de la dynastie , 1981 Albert Ier, le roi sans terre , 1983 Jules van Praet, ministre de la Maison du Roi , 1983 Hemingway et Jean Racine, reporters de guerre en Ardenne , 1985 Belles étrangères en Belgique , 1986

Background literature

• Jean Warmoes: Carlo Bronne. Un demi-siècle de chroniques, 1929-1979 , 1979

Web links

• Literature by and about Carlo Bronne in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bibliography ( Open Library )
• Biography in Cent Wallons du siècle , Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995