Jean-Louis Vaudoyer

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Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (1928)

Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (born September 10, 1883 in Le Plessis-Robinson , Département Hauts-de-Seine , † March 20, 1963 in Paris ) was a French essayist , art historian , poet and novelist , who was the administrative director of the Comédie between 1941 and 1944 -Française and in 1950 became a member of the Académie française . However, his election as a member of the Académie française was due to his support for the Vichy regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain and collaboration as a collaborator with the German ambassador to France Otto Abetz controversial during World War II .

Life

Family, studies and time up to the Second World War

Jean-Louis Vaudoyer came from a family of architects and was a son of Alfred Vaudoyer . His great-great-grandfather was the painter Louis Jean François Lagrenée , while his great-grandfather Antoine Vaudoyer and his grandfather Léon Vaudoyer were members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts as well as well-known architects. His older half-brother Georges Vaudoyer also worked as an architect, while his half-sister Marianne's husband was married to the essayist and historian Daniel Halévy . He himself attended the École Gerson and the Lycée Carnot , where the Swiss writer Robert de Traz was one of his school friends. He then completed a degree in art history and literature at the École du Louvre .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Vaudoyer began his literary career and, along with Abel Bonnard , Charles Du Bos , Auguste Gilbert de Voisins , Émile Henriot , Edmond Jaloux , Eugène Marsan and Francis de Miomandre, belonged to the literary circle Club des Longues mustaches , which between 1908 and Existed in 1911. In 1911 he wrote the libretto for the ballet Le Specter de la Rose, choreographed by Michail Fokine for the Ballets Russes , in one act based on music by Carl Maria von Weber . In 1910 he became an employee of the applied arts museum Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. He took part in the First World War and was honored with the Croix de guerre . He later became a curator and curator of the Musée Carnavalet , which he subsequently became director. As an art critic, he wrote articles for numerous magazines and daily newspapers such as L'Écho de Paris . On June 13, 1926 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor .

In 1928 Vaudoyer was awarded the Académie française's Grand Prize for Literature. A supporter of the ideas of Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras , he joined with his brother-in-law Daniel Halévy and other liberal conservatives through the personal influence of his friend François Mauriac before the riots of February 6, 1934 the Christian Democratic movement. After the deaths of Albert Besnard on December 4, 1934 and Pierre de Nolhac on January 31, 1936, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer was considered a candidate for membership in the Académie française, but Louis Gillet and Georges Grente were elected. On January 29, 1937, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Administrative director of the Comédie-Française and elected member of the Académie française

Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (painting by Albert Besnard , 1932)

In World War II he supported after the occupation of France by troops of the German Wehrmacht after the western campaign , however, the Vichy regime of Marshal Philippe Petain and worked as a collaborator with the German ambassador to France , Otto Abetz together. He was on March 7, 1941 as the successor of Jacques Copeau after a brief interim management by Léon Lamblin administrative director of the Comédie-Française and held this position until his resignation on March 23, 1944, whereupon André Brunot was his successor. At the same time, he was appointed on July 7, 1941 by the State Secretary for Education of the Vichy government, Jérôme Carcopino , as President of the Organizing Committee for entertainment companies COES (Comité d'organization des entreprises du spectacle) .

After the liberation of France ( La Liberation ) in 1944, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer was accused of having “made the first French stage available to the enemy” with the Comédie-Française . However, he was acquitted by the Court of Justice (Cour de justice) set up by the transitional government on June 26, 1944 and the Commission d'Épuration . After Edmond Jaloux's death on August 22, 1949, he was elected as his successor on January 12, 1950 as a member of the Académie française . However, his election as a member of the Académie française was controversial due to his support for the Vichy regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain and collaboration as a collaborator with the German ambassador to France Otto Abetz in World War II. His former friend François Mauriac spoke out against his choice. In fact, he was only elected to Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix in the second ballot with 21 votes against seven . On July 22, 1950, he gave the obligatory eulogy for his deceased predecessor Edmond Jaloux.

Publications

Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, under the influence of his friend Henri de Régnier , whom he often visited in Venice , wrote novels and poems that are more impressionistic than realistic . In his books he dealt with personalities such as Tamara Platonowna Karsawina , George Barbier , Alice Ozy , Arthur Chassériau , Ambroise Paré , Antoine Watteau , Marcelle Mallet , Nicolas Froment , Paul Cézanne , Édouard Manet , Piero della Francesca , Sandro Botticelli , Pierre -Auguste Renoir . His works include:

  • Les compagnes du rêve , 1906
  • Quarante petits poèmes , 1907
  • La Commedia , 1908
  • L'amour masqué , 1908
  • Stances et élégies , 1908
  • La bien-aimée , 1909
  • Suzanne et l'Italie , 1910
  • La Maîtresse et l'Amie , 1912
  • Poésies, 1906-1912 , 1913
  • Album dédié à Tamara Karsavina , 1914
  • Poésies , 1914
  • Propos et promenades , 1914
  • La stèle d'un ami , 1916
  • Les permissions de Clément Bellin , 1918
  • Les papiers de Cléonthe , 1919
  • Le dernier rendez-vous , 1920
  • Le musée de l'Union centrale des Arts décoratifs au Pavillon de Marsan , 1920
  • Un album de dix dessins sur la danse , 1920
  • Peau d'ange , 1921
  • Rayons croisés , 1921
  • L'album Italy , 1922
  • La pure évanouie , 1923
  • Ombres portées , 1923
  • Campagne d'Italie , 1924
  • Les délices de l'Italie , 1924
  • Deux maisons de peintres , 1925
  • Les plaisirs d'hier , 1925
  • Raymonde Mangematin , 1925
  • Beautés de la Provence , 1925
  • Éloge de la gourmandise , 1926
  • Le chant du rossignol , 1926
  • En France , 1927
  • Franges , 1927
  • Premières amours , 1927
  • Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer , 1928
  • Nouvelles beautés de la Provence , 1928
  • George Barbier , 1929
  • Nuit à l'hôtel Beaux-Monts , 1929
  • Alice Ozy, ou l'Aspasie modern , 1930
  • Esquisses havanaises , 1930
  • D'Athènes à La Havane, via Berlin , 1931
  • Souvenirs de la rue des Vignes , 1931
  • Donne-moi ton coeur , 1931
  • Armchair XIII , 1933
  • Italiennes , 1934
  • Le baron Arthur Chassériau , 1935
  • Cartes et estampes , 1935
  • Ambroise Paré et les Valois , 1936
  • Italie, des Alpes à Sienne , 1936
  • Watteau , 1937
  • "La Rose" , 1938
  • L'Homme et les Dieux , 1945
  • Trois bouquets provençaux , 1945
  • CLX petits faits vrais , 1946
  • Le souvenir de Marcelle Mallet , 1946
  • Dédié à l'amitié et au souvenir , 1947
  • Les peintres provençaux, de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cézanne , 1947
  • Fontaines de Provence , 1948
  • Les Impressionnistes, de Manet à Cézanne , 1948
  • Piero della Francesca , 1949
  • Botticelli , 1950
  • Italie retrouvée , 1950
  • Paris aux yeux du monde , 1951
  • Quelques Français en Italie , 1951
  • La Provence , 1953
  • Images de France , 1954
  • Renoir , 1954
  • La Sicile , 1955
  • Les Impressionnistes , 1955
  • Édouard Manet , 1956
  • Rome , 1956

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Discours de réception de Jean-Louis Vaudoyer
personal data
SURNAME Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French essayist, art historian, poet and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Plessis-Robinson , Hauts-de-Seine department
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1963
Place of death Paris