Edmonde Charles-Roux

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Edmonde Charles-Roux (born April 17, 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine , † January 20, 2016 in Marseille ) was a French writer , journalist and resistance fighter.

Life

Edmonde Charles-Roux was the daughter of the French historian and diplomat François Charles-Roux (1879–1961), her brother, eleven years older, was the diplomat Jules Henri François Charles-Roux (1909–1999). Her grandfather was the businessman and politician Jules Charles-Roux (1841–1918). Due to her father's profession, she grew up in Prague and Rome .

During the Second World War she volunteered as a nurse for the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion . She was wounded during a mission in Verdun . Then she joined the Resistance as a nurse and helped the 5th Panzer Division, the 1st Foreign Cavalry Division (1er REC) and the Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion (RMLE). She later received several awards for her commitment. Among other things, she received the Croix de guerre and was made an honorary member of the Foreign Legion.

After the war, Charles-Roux worked as a journalist in the newly founded women's magazine Elle and from 1948 in the French edition of the fashion magazine Vogue , where she became editor-in-chief in 1954. She stayed that way until 1966. She had to quit the magazine after trying to get a black woman on the cover. Three months later, her first novel, Oublier Palerme , was published, which was awarded the Prix ​​Goncourt , the most prestigious French literary prize, that same year . Francesco Rosi filmed the book in 1990 under the title Palermo Forget, with James Belushi , Mimi Rogers and Joss Ackland in the leading roles. Her book Le Temps Chanel , published in 1979, was the template for the historical film Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion with Audrey Tautou in the leading role of Coco Chanel , published in 2008 and directed by Anne Fontaine .

In 1983 Charles-Roux was elected to the French Académie Goncourt and was president of this literary association from 2002 to 2013. In 2008 she was a member of a commission of the Académie de France à Rome .

In 1966 Charles-Roux met the French politician Gaston Defferre , whom she married in 1973. He later became Minister of the Interior in the government of François Mitterrand and died on May 7, 1986 in his office as Mayor of Marseille .

Works

  • 1966: Oublier Palerme
  • 1971: Elle, Adrienne
    • Elle, Adrienne , Wunderlich Verlag, Stuttgart 1972
  • 1974: L'Irrégulière ou mon itinéraire Chanel
    • Chanel , Wunderlich Verlag, Stuttgart 1976
  • 1979: Le Temps Chanel
  • 1980: Stèle pour un bâtard
  • 1981: Une enfance sicilienne
  • 1989: Un désir d'Orient, vol I biography of Isabelle Eberhardt
  • 1995: Nomade j'étais, vol II
  • 2003: L'homme de Marseille
  • 2003: Isabelle du désert

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Libre et indocile, la journaliste et romancière Edmonde Charles-Roux est morte
  2. ^ Edmonde Charles-Roux: author and resistance fighter died at the age of 94. In: Zeit Online. January 21, 2016, accessed January 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ obituary , lepoint.fr, January 21, 2016 Retrieved on January 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Charles-Roux, Edmonde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, journalist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine , France
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2016
Place of death Marseille