Léonce Peillard

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Léonce Peillard (born November 25, 1898 in Toulon , † May 27, 1996 ) was a French naval writer, publisher and naval historian.

Peillard came from a seaman's family, his father was a mechanical engineer in the French Navy. Peillard went to school in Dover (at St. Mary's School), which, in his own words, primarily left him with an aversion to the one-sided presentation of history and flogging in English schools. He went to sea at the age of 18, studied law and commercial science three years later at the École des hautes études commerciales and then went back to sea and abroad, in particular getting to know the routes to South America and the Far East and for a long time in Brazil and Argentina lived. At the age of 40 he gave up the naval career and became a writer and publisher.

Among other things, he wrote books about the submarine war in World War II, the sinking of the Tirpitz , the recovery of gold from Tubantia , which was sunk in World War I , and about the Laconia affair , which he carefully researched, in some cases of his books (such as the Tubantia affair), however, presented the historical facts rather like a novel. For example, for the book about the Laconia affair, which has been translated into several languages , he asked survivors such as submarine drivers and castaways including Admiral Karl Dönitz (who contributed his own point of view in the appendix). He also wrote naval novels.

As a publisher, Peillard was director of Biblio-Hachette from 1940 to 1966 and of Livres de France from 1942 to 1967.

He was also considered an expert on Ferdinand Magellan in France .

He was a member of the Académie de marine since 1965.

Fonts

  • Affair Laconia, Neff Verlag 1963 (Original: L 'affaire du Laconia: 12 septembre 1941, Paris, Laffont 1961)
  • Affair Tubantia - The hunt for German gold in the Dutch wreck, Paul Neff Verlag 1978 (Original: Le Trésor du "Tubantia", Paris, R. Laffont 1978)
  • The Battle of the Atlantic 1939–1945, Paul Neff Verlag 1975, Heyne 1978, Verlag Buch und Welt 1983 (and other German editions; original edition La Bataille de l'Atlantique, 2 volumes, Laffont 1974, 1975)
  • History of the U-Boat War 1939–1945, Heyne Taschenbuch 1974 (Original: Histoire générale de la guerre sous-marine: 1939–1945, Laffont 1970)
  • Sunk the Tirpitz, Verlag Buch und Welt 1965 (Original: Coulez le Tirpitz!: (22 September 1943), Laffont 1965)
  • Yougoslavie, Hachette 1955
  • Magellan: et le premier tour du monde de la Victoria, Brussels 1961
  • La vie quotidienne à Londres au temps de Nelson et de Wellington: 1774–1852, Hachette 1968
  • On the streets of the ocean. The history of international passenger shipping from 1830 to 1972, Stalling Verlag 1973 (Original: Sur les chemins de l'océan: paquebots, 1830–1972, Hachette 1972)
  • Villegagnon : vice-amiral de Bretagne, vice-roi du Brésil, Paris, Perrin 1991 (preface by Alain Peyrefitte )

Novels:

  • Françoise: roman maritime, Éditions Corrêa 1944
  • Le capitaine Cornil Bart, Éditions Corrêa 1945
  • La Porte de la Mer, Editions Corrêa 1954

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Epilogue to his book Die Affäre Laconia , Neff Verlag 1963, p. 267
  2. ↑ Autobiographical information in The Tubantia Affair , p. 259. After that he was a kind of shipping company employee or merchant
  3. ↑ Dönitz also wrote a foreword to The Battle of the Atlantic
  4. ↑ Among other things, he published the recordings of the circumnavigation of Magellan by Antonio Pigafetta with commentary (and translated them): Relation du premier voyage autour du monde de Magellan (1519–1522) , Paris, Tallandier 1984
personal data
SURNAME Peillard, Leonce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naval writer and naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulon
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1996