Lucien Bodard

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Lucien Bodard , called Lulu le Chinois (born January 9, 1914 in Chongqing , † March 2, 1998 in Paris ) was a French reporter , writer and actor.

Live and act

Bodard was the son of the diplomat Albert Bodard and his wife Anne-Marie Greffier. In 1914 the father was the consul of France in Chengdu , Sichuan . The son received his first schooling from a private tutor. Around 1924 his mother traveled back to France with him to give him the best possible school and university education.

After successfully completing this course, Bodard traveled to North Africa ; around 1940 he stayed in London for some time . Between 1944 and 1946 he worked as a journalist in the Far East. In 1946 he went to North Africa to report on the French colonies and French politics there. From 1948 he worked for almost 30 years as chief reporter for the newspaper France Soir and reported a. a. on the Algerian War , French Indochina and the events in Hong Kong . Editor-in-chief Pierre Lazareff (and with him other reviewers) often compared him to Albert Londres and Joseph Kessel . Bodard became an incorruptible commentator on French politics abroad.

During these years he met the Italian filmmaker Marguerite Perato and married her. After a short time, the couple separated and Bodard married Huguette Cord'Homme at Boulogne-Billancourt's on May 30, 1962 and had a son with her: Julien (* 1967). Bodard's third marriage was with Marie-Françoise Leclère, an editor of the weekly Le Point .

Lucien Bodard retired in 1975 and started working as a writer. He died on March 2, 1998 in Paris and was last resting on the Cimetière du Montparnasse .

Honors

Works (selection)

stories
  • La mésaventure espagnole . Oswald, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-253-02733-2 . (EA Paris 1946).
  • The plairs of the hexagone . Gallimard, Paris 1971.
Novels
Non-fiction
  • La Chine de la douceur . Gallimard, Paris 1957.
    • German translation: China's smiling face. Experiences and experiences . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1961.
  • La Chine du cauchemar . Gallimard, Paris 1961.
    • German translation: Alpdruck China. The new political course . Wegner Verlag, Hamburg 1962.
  • La guerre d'Indochine . Grasset, Paris 1963/67 (5 vol.)
  1. L'enlisement . 1963.
  2. L'illusion . 1965.
  3. L'humiliation . 1965.
  4. L'aventure . 1967.
  5. L'éspuisement . 1967.
  • La guerre d'Indochine. L'enlisement - l'humiliation - l'aventure . Grasset, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-246-55291-5 .
  • Mao . Gallimard, Paris 1970 (with Marie Cardinal )
  • Le massacre des India . Éditions J'ai lu, Paris 1974 (Gallimard, Paris 1968. EA Paris 1969)
  • LE plus grand drame du monde. La Chine de Tseu Hi à Mao .

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Literature and film

  • Olivier Weber : Lucien Bodard. An aventurier dans le siècle . Plon, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-259-18315-8 .
  • Olivier Weber and Michel Vuillermet: Lucien Bodard, dit “Lulu le Chinois” . 1998 Documentation for France 5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbreviated obituary , spiegel.de, March 9, 1998, accessed on March 30, 2014
  2. ↑ She later became known under the name Mag Bodard.
personal data
SURNAME Bodard, Lucien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Chinois, Lulu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Chongqing
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1998
Place of death Paris