Marc Elder
Marc Elder (* as Marcel Tendron October 31, 1884 in Nantes , † August 16, 1933 in Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine ) was a French writer. In 1913 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Le peuple de la mer .
Elder attended the Nantes Lyceum. He was an art historian and art critic and curator in the castle of the Dukes of Brittany in Nantes. Elder was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .
He received the Prix Goncourt in 1913 for a novel about Breton fishermen. This year he had strong competition from Marcel Proust (Du côté de chez Swann) and Alain-Fournier (Le Grand Meaulnes) and the jury of the Prix Goncourt needed a record-holding eleven laps to decide. Due to tuberculosis, he did not take part in the First World War and was forced to take long periods of recreation. He wrote other novels, mostly about Brittany, and essays.
From 1920 to 1933 he was the first president of the Société des amis du musée des beaux-arts de Nantes. He was friends with the painters Claude Monet and Gaston Chaissac .
In 1911 he married Germaine Marthe Malaval.
A square in Nantes is named after him.
Works
- Le peuple de la mer , Ed. Oudin 1913
- Deux essais: Octave Mirbeau, Romain Rolland , G. Crès, 1914
- La vie apostolique de Vincent Vingeame , Calmann-Lévy, 1917
- Le sang des dieux , A. Michel, 1921
- À Giverny, chez Claude Monet , Bernheim-Jeune, 1924
- Gabriel-Belot, peintre imagier , A. Delpeuch, 1927
- Pays de Retz , Emile-Paul, 1928
- Les Dames Pirouette , J. Ferenczi & fils, 1929
- Croisières , J. Ferenczi & Fils, 1931
- La belle Eugénie: roman , Ferenczi et fils, 1931
- Jacques et Jean: bois originaux en couleurs de Robert Antral , Ferenczi et Fils, 1931
- La Bourrine - Le Beau livre 4, 1932
- Jacques Cassard: Corsaire de Nantes , J. Ferenczi, 1933
- Marc Elder, ou, Un rêve écartelé , Roger Douillard (ed.), Cid éditions, 1987
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elder, Marc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tendron, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1933 |
| Place of death | Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine |