Luc Benoist

Luc Benoist , pseudonym: Luc-Benoist (born December 23, 1893 in Paris , France , † 1980 ) was a French art historian , author and essayist .

Life

In the 1920s, Benoist published his first books on art history . From 1928 onwards his interest turned to esotericism and symbolism . He was particularly interested in the metaphysics of the Middle East and the work of René Guénon .

Benoist worked as a curator at the Palace of Versailles and became honorary curator of the Musées de France . He completed his professional years in the period from 1947 to 1959 as a curator at the Art Museum Nantes in Brittany . Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the editor-in-chief of the Nouvelle Revue Française Jean Paulhan commissioned him with a work on Guénon's work, which, however, could not appear in the magazine until 1943. After Guénon moved to Cairo , Benoist corresponded regularly with Guénon and published the correspondence in the journal Études Traditionelles .

Publications

• 1921: Adolescentines . A. Bessire, Paris.
• 1928: La sculpture romantique . La Renaissance du Livre, Paris.
• 1930: Coysevox , Plon, Paris; Series: Les Mâitres de l'art.
• 1933: pseudonym Luc-Benoist: Notre-Dame de L'Épine ; Series: "Petites monographies des Grands Édifices de la France". Henri Laurens, Paris.
• 1941: Art du monde, la spiritualité du métier . Gallimard, Paris.
• 1947: Versailles et la monarchie . Éditions du Cluny, Paris 1947.
• 1960: Le compagnonnage et les métiers ; Row: “Que sais-je?”. Presses universitaires de France, Paris
• 1963: L'Ésotérisme ; Row: “Que sais-je?”. Presses universitaires de France, Paris.
• 1975: Signes, symboles et mythes , series: “Que sais-je?”. Presses universitaires de France, Paris.
• 1979: Le Château des Ducs de Bretagne et ses collections , Chiffoleau, Nantes.