Jules Huret

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Jules Huret

Jules Huret (born April 8, 1863 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † February 14, 1915 in Paris ) was a French journalist who was mainly known through his interviews with writers.

Born into a fishing family, Huret began working in the office of the Mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer at the age of 15 to help his widowed mother. In 1881 he founded a small literary magazine. In 1885 he went to Paris and became a textbook editor in the southern urban area of ​​the Rive Gauche . In 1886 he worked for six months for L'Événement by Edmond Magnier, then for various other daily newspapers. In 1890 Valentin hired him as a permanent employee for L'Écho de Paris . In March 1891 he began his famous Enquête sur l'évolution littéraire there , a series in which he interviewed 64 writers, including Émile Zola , Octave Mirbeau and Maurice Barrès . The core topic of the interview series was the situation and perspectives of French literature as well as the dispute between the “ psychology followers against the naturalism followers ” and the “ symbolism followers against the Parnassia followers ”. The postulate of these interviews, which had to be accepted by the interviewees, was the application of the Darwinian principle of evolution to the field of literature, which was also a battlefield on which the strongest would prevail and survive.

Later he specialized in the interview technique and practiced it with a high degree of perfectionism. With his 64 author interviews, Huret made the intellectual nature of his famous contemporaries recognizable with just as much tact as it was effectiveness. In 1892 he switched to the French daily Le Figaro , where in the same year he began an Enquête sur la question sociale en Europe , which took him to Rome , Zurich , Vienna , Germany and Russia . In 1895, under the direction of Antonin Périvier and Fernand de Rodays, he was entrusted with the Petite chronique des lettres du quotidien (a short report on the letters of the day) and, from 1896 to 1899, the Chronique Théâtrale (reporting on the theater scene and culture). From 1902 he made long trips abroad, from where he reported with new reports. Jules published research in the newspaper Le Figaro about the United States of America, which his friend Octave Mirbeau suggested for the Prix ​​Goncourt literary prize , as well as about Germany, about Argentina, about topics like university, politics, poverty and criticism's rights.

From July 1906 to May 1907, Huret traveled through Germany and wrote reports on the German Empire, which was striving to become a world power economically and politically. He interviewed captains of industry, high-ranking politicians and representatives of associations, among them August Thyssen , Heinrich Ehrhardt ( Rheinmetall ), Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow , and he described and commented on education, social institutions (Bethel) , Junkers and the military as well as everyday life, syndicates and cartels , Anti-Semitism around 1900 and “The Poland Question” .

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SURNAME Huret, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-sur-Mer
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1915
Place of death Paris