François Porché
François Porché (born November 21, 1877 in Cognac , † April 19, 1944 in Vichy ) was a French poet, writer and literary historian.
life and work
Porché attended schools in Cognac and Angoulême (there as a classmate of Jérôme Tharaud ). He studied law in Paris and published poetry in the Cahiers de la Quinzaine , side by side with Charles Péguy and Alain-Fournier (whose partner he married in 1915). From 1907 to 1911 he was a tutor in Moscow.
After the World War, which he took part in at the front, he lived as a journalist and homme de lettres. He wrote (often time-related) plays (e.g. about Lenin) and books about 19th century authors, namely Baudelaire, Verlaine and Tolstoy.
Porché was awarded the Grand Prix de littérature de l'Académie française in 1923 .
Works
- Literary history
- Péguy et les "Cahiers" , in: Mercure de France March 1, 1914
- Paul Valéry et la poésie pure , Paris 1926, 1946
- La Vie douloureuse de Charles Baudelaire , Paris 1926 (304 pages)
- L'Amour qui n'ose pas dire son nom , Paris 1927 (about Oscar Wilde and André Gide)
- Poètes français depuis Verlaine , Paris 1929
- Verlaine tel qu'il fut , Paris 1933, 1939, 1949 (444 pages)
- Verlaine , Paris 1933 (127 pages)
- Portrait psychologique de Tolstoï (de la naissance à la mort) 1828-1910 , Paris 1935, 1949
- Baudelaire et la présidente , Paris 1941, 1959
- Baudelaire. Histoire d'une âme , Paris 1945, 1967
literature
- Dictionnaire national des contemporains , ed. by Nathan Imbert, Vol. 1, Paris 1939 sv (with picture)
- Dictionnaire biographique des Charentais , Paris 2005 sv
Web links
- Literature by and about François Porché in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porché, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, poet and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | cognac |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vichy |