Jacques de Bourbon Busset

Jacques de Bourbon Busset , actually Jacques Louis Robert Marie de Bourbon, Comte de Busset (born April 27, 1912 in Paris , † May 7, 2001 there ) was a French writer and diplomat.

Life

Bourbon Busset was a descendant of the Barons de Busset ; with the House of Bourbon he had patrilineal ties. His father was François de Bourbon Busset (1875-1954), his mother Guillemette de Colbert-Chabanair (1885-1944).

Bourbon Busset completed his school days at the Lycée Henri IV and moved to the ENS in his hometown in 1932 . He then got a job at the Foreign Ministry , where he worked throughout World War II .

He was arrested by the German occupiers and deported to Germany . Through his successful escape, General Charles de Gaulle became aware of him. In August 1944 he appointed Bourbon Busset President of the French Red Cross . During this time he married Laurence Ballande († 1984) and had a son with her, Charles de Bourbon Busset (* 1945).

In 1948 Robert Schuman brought Bourbon Busset into his cabinet. Later, between 1956 and 1965, he served as mayor of Ballancourt-sur-Essonne , Essonne department . Close to Ballancourt is the Château de Saussay , where the family still lives today.

1981 appointed the Académie française Bourbon Busset as a member. On July 4, he was elected to the chair 34 to succeed the late writer Maurice Genevoix .

Jacques de Bourbon Busset died on May 7, 2001 in Paris, eleven days after his 89th birthday.

Honors

• 1957 Grand Prix du Roman for Le silence et la joie
• 1959 Large Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1976 Grand prix catholique de littérature for Au vent de la meémoire
• 1980 Prix ​​de Marcel Proust for Les choses simples .

Works (selection)

author

Biographies

• Mazarin . Hachette, Paris 1959 (together with Henri Mongrédien).
• Alexandre le grand . Hachette, Paris 1962 (with Jacques Benoîst-Méchin and Jules Romains).

stories

• I, Caesar . Narration (“Moi, César”). Scheffler, Frankfurt / M. 1960.
• Les Aveux infidèles . Gallimard, Paris 1962 (folio; 268).
• Fugue à deux voix . Gallimard, Paris 1959.
• La nuit de Salernes . Gallimard, Paris 1965.

Novels

• Le berger des nuages. Novel . Gallimard, Paris 1982, ISBN 978-2-07-024543-7 .
• Confession de Don Juan . Albin Michel, Paris 1987, ISBN 978-2-226-03104-4 .

Non-fiction

• Paul Valéry ou le mystique sans dieu . Plon, Paris 1964.
• Homme et Femme, il les créa . Fayard, Paris 1969 ( Je sais, je crois ; 149).

Diaries

• Journal . Gallimard, Paris 1966/1985

1. La nature est un talisman . 1966.
2. Les arbres et les jours . 1967.
3. L'amour durable . 1969.
4. Comme le diamond . 1971.
5. Complices . 1974.
6. Au vent de la mémoire . 1976.
7. Tu ne mourras pas . 1978, ISBN 2-07-029748-9 .
8. Les choses simples . 1980, ISBN 2-07-018594-X
9. La force des jours . 1981, ISBN 2-07-027875-1 .
10. Bien plus qu'aux premiers jours . 1985, ISBN 2-07-070288-X .

editor

• L'Encyclopédie française, vol. 11 . SNEF, Paris 1957.
• Foi jurée, esprit libre . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-220-03256-6 .

literature

• Bénédicte Freysseliard: Étude de l'œuvre de Jacques de Bourbon Busset . Dissertation, University of Paris-IV 1994 (3 microfiches).
• Marc Oraison: Le couple en question . Beauchesne, Paris 1974 (interview).
• Jacques Paugan: Je n'ai peur de rien quand je suis sûr de toi . Gallimard, Paris 1978 (interview).

Footnotes

1. ^ Family tree of the descendants of François Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Comte de Busset et de Chalus .
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

Web links

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)