Jean Mistler

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Jean Mistler (1928)
Jean Mistler House in Sorèze
Jean Mistler with the sculptor Pierre-Marie Poisson in front of a bust of Marianne

Jean Mistler (born September 1, 1897 in Sorèze , † November 11, 1988 in Paris ) was a French politician, diplomat , author, member of the Académie française and its Secrétaire perpétuel .

Life

Mistler's family came to Soréze from Alsace in 1871 when the region was annexed by the German Empire . Jean Mistler was born in 1897 as the son of a musician and a pianist. In his birthplace, he attended school, then the Lycée in Carcassonne and took preparatory courses at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris to start studying at the École normal supérieure . At the Lycée he attended courses with the philosopher Émile Chartier . In 1916 he was drafted into military service. The experiences of the war had a lasting impact on him and made him a staunch pacifist.

In 1919 he was accepted at the École normal supérieure and received his Agrégation as the best of his year in the following year . This would have allowed him to teach as a high school teacher, but he applied to the Foreign Ministry for an assignment abroad, was accepted and went to the French embassy in Hungary as a cultural attaché . At the same time he taught literary studies at the University of Budapest . In 1925 he was ordered back to France and worked in the Foreign Ministry, where he took over the management of the Department of Literature and Arts from Paul Morand , who had recently left.

His political career began in 1928 with his election as a radical socialist deputy to the French Chamber of Deputies for the Aude department . From 1932 he was Undersecretary of State for Art, 1933 and 1934 Minister of Post. In 1934 the music lover founded the radio symphony orchestra as post minister in Albert Sarraut's cabinet , which in 1937 became the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France . In 1934 he was briefly Minister of Commerce and Industry in the cabinet of Édouard Daladier . From 1936 he was in front of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies.

Jean Mistler began to write as early as the mid-1920s and published Châteaux en Bavière (1925), Madame de Staël et Maurice 0'Donnell (1926) and Ethelka (1929).

When the Chamber of Deputies met in Vichy on July 10, 1940 , Mistler announced, as chairman of the National Assembly's electoral commission, that Philippe Pétain would be given full powers and that he would be entrusted with drafting a new constitution. After the liberation of France from Nazi Germany, this earned him the nickname “Gravedigger of the Republic”. During the occupation, Mistler was a member of the National Council that advised the Vichy regime .

After the war, Mistler worked for the publishing house "Éditions du Rocher", then became general secretary and chairman of the "Maison du livre français", which was subordinate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1964 and 1969 he was head of general literature at the largest French book publisher, Hachette . Mistler also wrote regular literary and music reviews for L'Aurore . At the same time, numerous other novels, but also biographies, were written in the 1940s and 1950s.

At the. On June 2, 1966 he was elected to the Académie française on the Fauteuil 14 as the successor to Robert d'Harcourt and was their Secrétaire perpétuel between 1973 and 1985.

Jean Mistler died on November 11, 1988 and was buried in the family vault of the Auriol family in Sorèze.

Fonts

  • Châteaux en Bavière , Calmann-Lévy, 1925
  • Madame de Staël et Maurice 0'Donnell (1805-1817) , d'après des lettres inédites, Calmann-Lévy, 1926
  • La vie d'Hoffmann , Gallimard, 1927
  • Triomphe de Paris (Éditions d'art Jrody, 1929
  • Ethelka , Calmann-Lévy, 1929
  • Vienne , Hachette, 1931
  • La maison du Docteur Clifton , Emile Paul, 1932
  • Problèmes de politique extérieure, conférences par MM. Mistler, Tirard, Reynaud, Hubert, Mousset, Rivaud et Osusky , Alcan, 1938
  • Roger Chastel , Sequana, 1943
  • Dictées de la nuit avec des Bois gravés de Galanis, Corrêa, 1943
  • Chamfort, Maximes et anecdotes, introduction et notes , Le Rocher, 1944
  • Le Vampire, extrait des Mémoires du Chevalier de Villevert , Le Rocher, 1944
  • La Femme nue et le Veau d'or , Le Rocher, 1945
  • Benjamin Constant, Journal intime, suivi d'Adolphe et du Cahier rouge , introduction et notes, Le Rocher, 1946
  • Gobineau, Les Pléiades , établissement du texte, introduction et notes, Le Rocher, 1947
  • Gobineau, la Renaissance, scènes historiques , établissement du texte, introduction et notes, Le Rocher, 1947
  • Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses , établissement du texte, introduction et notes, Le Rocher, 1948
  • Benjamin Constant et Mme de Staël, Lettres à un ami, Cent onze lettres inédites à Claude Hochet , La Baconnière, 1949
  • La symphonie inachevée , Le Rocher, 1950
  • Hoffmann le fantastique , Albin Michel, 1950
  • A Bayreuth avec Richard Wagner , Hachette, 1960
  • Epinal et l'imagerie populaire , (coauteurs: F. Blaudez et A. Jacquemin), Hachette), 1961
  • Le 14 juillet , Hachette, 1963
  • La librairie Hachette de 1826 à nos jours , Hachette, 1964
  • Le bout du monde , Grasset, 1964
  • Napoléon et l'Empire , 2 vol., Hachette, 1967
  • Les orgues de Saint-Sauveur , Grasset, 1967
  • Les Cahiers du capitaine Coignet , première édition d'après le manuscrit original, Hachette, 1968
  • Lieutenant Chevalier, Souvenirs des guerres napoléoniennes , Hachette, 1970
  • Gaspard Hauser , Fayard, 1971
  • La route des étangs , Grasset, 1971
  • Aimés des Dieux , Hachette, 1972
  • Vermeer de Delft , Screpel, 1973
  • Le naufrage du Monte-Cristo , Grasset, 1973
  • L'Ami des pauvres , Grasset, 1974
  • Gare de l'Est , Grasset, 1975
  • Bon poids , Grasset, 1976
  • Hugo et Wagner face à leur destin , Grasset, 1977
  • Wagner et Bayreuth , Hachette, 1980
  • Sous la coupole , Grasset, 1981
  • Faubourg Antoine , Grasset, 1982
  • Le jeune homme qui rode , Grasset, 1984

Web links

Commons : Jean Mistler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mistler in the list of former members of the French National Assembly (French)
  2. ↑ Discours de réception de Hélène Carrère d'Encausse , Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, November 28, 1991 (French)
personal data
SURNAME Mistler, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, diplomat, author, member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorèze
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1988
Place of death Paris