Fernand Gregh
Fernand Gregh (born October 14, 1873 in Paris , † January 5, 1960 ibid) was a French poet and literary critic.
Live and act
The son of the composer Louis Gregh attended the Lycees Michelet , Louis-le-Grand and Condorcet , where Marcel Proust was his classmate, and then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne .
In 1896 he founded the literary magazine Le Banquet , in which he published his first poems and at the u. a. Marcel Proust , Daniel Halévy , Robert de Flers , Jacques Bizet , Léon Blum , Henri Bergson , Gaston Arman de Caillavet , Henri Ribaud and Henri Barbusse collaborated. In 1896 he published his first volume of poetry, Maison de l'Enfance . At the suggestion of Ludovic Halévy, he submitted it to a poetry competition of the Académie Française and won the Prix Archon-Pespurouse endowed with 2000 francs .
Gregh commented on the Dreyfus affair , which deeply disturbed France. On January 15, 1898, Le Temps published a petition, which Gregh had also signed, calling for a revision of the misjudgment against Alfred Dreyfus . This petition was supported by Émile Zola and many well-known personalities from various fields.
Despite his poor health - Gregh suffered a. a. suffered from migraines since childhood - he traveled extensively through Europe, the USA, Canada and Cuba. From 1949 he was president of the Société des Gens de lettres . In 1953 he was elected to succeed Charles de Chambrun as a member of the Académie française .
In addition to many volumes of poetry, Gregh also wrote plays and, in old age, several autobiographical books. He was named Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor. His son François Didier Gregh (1906-1992) was Minister of State of Monaco from 1969 to 1972.
Works
- La Maison de l'Enfance , poems, 1897
- La Beauté de Vivre , poems, 1900
- La Fenêtre Ouverte , Essays, 1901
- Manifestos de l'Humanisme , 1902
- Les Clartes Humanes , poems, 1904
- Etude sur Victor Hugo , essay, 1904
- L'Or des Minutes , Poems, 1905
- Prelude Féerique , 1908
- La Chaine Eternelle , poems, 1910
- La Couronne Douloureuse, poemes sur la Guerre (1917) , 1917
- Triomphe , 1919
- Couleur de la Vie , poems, 1923
- Choix de Poesies , 1928
- La Gloire du Coeur , play (premiere with Sarah Bernhardt ), 1933
- Tableau de la Poesie Française , 1933
- La Contesse Noailles
- L'ouvre de Victor Hugo , 1935
- Portrait de la Poesie Française au XIX Siecle , 1936
- Les Amants Romantiques , play, 1937
- Portrait de la Poesie Française au XX siecle , 1938
- Histoire du Theater Poetique en France depuis Beaumarchais , 1939
- C'Etait l'Espagne , travelogue, 1940
- La Couronne perdue et retrouve , 1945
- L'Age d'or, souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse , 1947
- Theater Féerique , 1950
- L'Age d'airain , 1951
- Victor Hugo, sa vie, son oeuvre , 1953
- L'Age de fer , 1955
- Le Mot du Monde , poems, 1957
- Mon amitié avec Marcel Proust - souvenirs et lettres inedites , 1958
Settings
- George Enescu , Trois mélodies, op.19 (F. Gregh), 1916 ( New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians )
literature
- Fernand Gregh , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1960 from February 29, 1960, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armchair 19 .
- ^ François-Didier Gregh , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/1955 of September 12, 1955, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gregh, Fernand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1960 |
| Place of death | Paris |