Marguerite Verdat

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Marguerite Verdat (born September 28, 1893 in Châtenoy-le-Royal , Saône-et-Loire department , † September 26, 1971 in Issy-les-Moulineaux , Hauts-de-Seine department ) was a French writer and archivist .

Life

Marguerite Verdat was the daughter of Anthelme Michel Alphonse, an infantry captain who came from the hamlet of Vessey in the municipality of Châtenoy-le-Royal, and his wife Eugénie Pauline Isaure Marie-Thérèse. She was the oldest of four children. Two of her siblings were the later writers Germaine Verdat (1897–1982) and Marcelle Verdat (1896–1972). During the First World War she worked as a nurse in Cluny . She then studied at the École nationale des chartes , where she received her doctorate in 1926 . As a member of the Société de Géographie , she traveled to several French colonies, including Sudan , where she worked as a photographer. She later worked as an archivist at the Ministère des Outre-mer , in the library of the Agence générale des Colonies and in the Musée des Colonies . From 1945 to 1948 she was director of the Archives des Afrique-Occidentale Française (AOF).

Verdat published her early literary work in 1914 with La légende du houx . After completing her studies, she returned to literature. Like her sister Marcelle, she had been a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres since 1929 . From 1950 she was also a member of the Association des écrivains de langue française .

Works

  • 1914: La légende du houx, dans La Semaine
  • 1926: Les États du Mâconnais aux XIVe et XVe siècles, thèse, École de Chartres
  • 1933: Terres inconnues, dans Les Veillées
  • 1937: Charcot, le chevalier du pôle, éd. La Bonne Presse (Paris), coll. Idéalistes et Animateurs
  • 1949: Le Ouali de Goumba, dans Études guinéennes N ° 3, éd. IFAN

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marguerite Verdat , nouvellesuzette.canalblog.com
  2. ^ Verdat, Marguerite, 1893-après 1958 , photographesenoutremerafrique.blogspot.de
personal data
SURNAME Verdat, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Châtenoy-le-Royal , Saône-et-Loire department
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1971
Place of death Issy-les-Moulineaux , Hauts-de-Seine department