Charles Darantière

Charles Darantière
Personal details
birthday	May 14, 1865
place of birth	France
date of death	August 1, 1933
Place of death	Paris, France
nationality	France
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 45.45
1923, Paris (Cadre 45/2 WM)
Best GD: 16.66
1923, Paris (Cadre 45/2 WM)
Maximum series (HS): 171
1923, Paris (Cadre 45/2 WM)
World Championships:
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FSFAB World Cup 1912 score report

Charles Darantière (born May 14, 1865 in France , † August 1, 1933 in Paris ) was a French billiards player , author and literary critic.

Career

billiards

Darantière's discipline was the cadre game . Since the founding of the first European association in 1903, Fédération des Sociétés Françaises des Amateurs de Billard (FSFAB), he took part in the world championship and won silver at the first world championship. In 1908 he won the challenge match against Alfred Mortier. By the outbreak of the First World War, Darantière had participated in almost all world championships and won six medals, only the tournaments in the USA he left out. After the war, the billiards scene first had to rebuild, Darantière only took part in a world championship again in 1922, which he also won, his only official world title after only the latter was recognized when the associations FSFAB and FFB were merged. He played his last World Cup in 1925, when he was 60 years old.

Darantière was president of the FFB from 1924 to 1928, for whose association magazine "Billard Sportif" he also wrote, then honorary president of the FFB and UIFAB .

Writer and critic

As an amateur player, Darantière was forced to earn his living elsewhere. He went to Fontanes High School, now Lycée Condorcet , before working as a literary critic for various newspapers and magazines. But he also wrote plays and operettas himself. The best known are “Loute” and “Jeanne qui rit” - “She laughs”, comedy in three acts, together with Maurieu Soulire.

Others

He died of a heart attack in his Paris apartment at the age of 68 and is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

successes

• Cadre 45/2 World Championship : 1922
• FSFAB World Championships in Cadre 35/2 and 45/2 : 1908 (challenge match) 1904, 1905, 1907, 1906, 1911/2
• French three-cushion championship : 1922, 1923, 1926

Swell:

Publications

• Information on Charles Darantiere in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Web links

Commons : Charles Darantière  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Championnate du Monde Amateur ( FFAB ) . In: Charles Muller (ed.): La Liberté . Paris May 6, 1924 ( La Vie Sportive - Billiards on Gallica ).
• Billiards Club Blancois . Conti, Faroux, Darantière au Blanc. In: L'Indépendant du Berry . Paris 4th February 1928 ( World Cup 1928 on Gallica ).
• Le Championnate du Monde amateur . In: La Presse . Paris April 28, 1922 ( 1922 World Cup on Gallica ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 154 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Desgrange, Henri: Billard . Charles Darantière est mort. Ed .: L'Auto-vélo. Paris August 9, 1933 (French, obituary on Gallica [accessed on 17 October 2019]).
3. ^ Anton Kuh: Works . tape 6 . Wallstein Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2979-9 , pp. 189 ( full text in Google Book Search).
4. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 164-172 .
5. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed October 18, 2019 (French).