Claire Sainte-Soline

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Claire Sainte-Soline

Claire Sainte-Soline (born Nelly Éva Marguerite Fouillet on September 18, 1897 in Melleran , Deux-Sèvres ; died on October 14, 1967 in Paris ) was a French scholar and writer.

Life

Fouillet was the daughter of Pierre Fouillet (1867–1950) and Henriette Léontine Barbeau (1864–1932). From 1932 to 1935, her father, a member of the left-wing Parti radical , was the mayor of Niort. Nelly was a student in the Lycees of Niort and Bordeaux before she attended the École normal supérieure in Sèvres . She graduated with a double state examination in physics and natural sciences.

Fouillet then became the assistant to the chemist Camille Matignon (who in turn was a student of Marcelin Berthelot ). She married Louis Coquart in 1918, from whom she divorced in 1941. This marriage came from Paulette Coquart (1919–1999), who in turn married the author Pierre Moinot . Nelly Fouillet-Coquart made numerous trips through North Africa and the Mediterranean countries, but also to the Indus and Japan .

She taught natural sciences as a teacher: between 1915 and 1919 in Blois and Grenoble , then from 1919 to 1924 in Auxerre , at the Lycée Fénelon in Paris from 1924 to 1956 and in Fès from 1956 to 1958.

In 1967 she died of breast cancer and was buried in her parents' grave in Niort on October 17th that year.

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In 1934 she published her first novel Journée in 1934 , which describes village life in Poitevin. She was inspired by the village of Sainte-Soline and chose this name as her stage name. In the following years more than twenty other novels and essays followed. The idiosyncratic style of her novels was characterized by sober objectivity; Behind the initially banal figures, there was also a complex inner life, which had to cope with a sometimes puzzling and even demonic outer world. Physical and psychological elements of the characters were thus woven into one unit. In doing so, Sainte-Soline particularly rejected the ideas of the Nouveau roman . She received positive reviews from André Gide, among others .

  • Journée (1934 - German: Between morning and evening )
  • D'une haleine (1935)
  • Antigone ou l'Idylle en Crète (1936 - German: Antigone. Or Roman in Crete. )
  • Les Sentiers détournés (1937)
  • Le Haut du Seuil (1938)
  • La Montagne des Alouettes (1940 - German: On the mountain of the larks )
  • Irène Maurepas (1942 - German: Irene Maurepas )
  • Petite physique pour les non physiciens (1943)
  • Et l'enfant que je fus ... (1944)
  • Belle (1947 - German: Belle )
  • Le Mal venu (1950 - German: The spider in the web )
  • Le dimanche des Rameaux (1952 - German: Monsieur is always right )
  • Grèce (1952)
  • Reflux (1953)
  • Mademoiselle Olga (1954)
  • Maroc (1954)
  • D'amour et d'anarchie (1955)
  • La mort de Benjamin (1957)
  • Castor et Pollux (1959)
  • Le Menteur (1961)
  • De la rive étrangère (1962)
  • Si j'étais hirondelle (1964)
  • Noémie Strauss (1965)
  • Les années fraîches (1966)
  • En souvenir d'une marquise (1969)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 404.
personal data
SURNAME Sainte-Soline, Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nelly Éva Marguerite Fouillet (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Melleran , France
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1967
Place of death Paris