Pierre-Jean Rémy

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Pierre-Jean Rémy

Pierre-Jean Rémy (birth name: Jean-Pierre Angremy) (born March 21, 1937 in Angoulême , † April 28, 2010 in Paris ) was a French diplomat and writer .

biography

Studies and promotion to ambassador

After completing school at the Lycée Condorcet , he studied law at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris from 1955 to 1958 , from which he graduated with a licentiate , and also took a minor in economics . He then studied sociology at the Sorbonne and then became Herbert Marcuse's assistant at the Chair of Philosophy and Political Science at Brandeis University in Waltham (Massachusetts) , where he also became friends with the French poet Claude Vigée . After returning to France in 1961, he began studying at the École nationale d'administration (ENA), which he completed in 1963 with a thesis on the Antoine de Saint-Just revolution .

He then entered the diplomatic service and was first Vice Consul in Hong Kong and then in 1964 Second Secretary at the Embassy in the People's Republic of China . After returning to Europe , he was second in 1966 and then first secretary until 1971 at the Embassy in the United Kingdom . He then worked for a short time in the Directorate General for Cultural Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Quai d'Orsay before he was seconded to the public service broadcaster Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) in 1972 , where he first became director and then deputy director general was responsible for the harmonization of radio programs . In this role he was also President of the Commission for Film and Television Co-productions and a member of the Commission for the National Film Promotion Agency ( Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée , CNC).

In 1975 he returned to the diplomatic service and became Counselor for Culture at the Embassy in the UK. In 1979 he was appointed director of theater and events at the Ministry of Culture and in 1981 project manager for the Opéra Bastille . In 1985 he became Consul General in Florence and, on his return in April 1987, Director General for Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was then Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to UNESCO between 1990 and 1994 and, in October 1992, a member of the Executive Council of UNESCO.

In March 1994 he became director of the Académie de France à Rome in Rome ( Villa Medici ). He was then from January 1997 to 2002 President of the National Library ( Bibliothèque nationale de France ).

Writing and honors

In addition to his diplomatic career Angremy was under his birth name, and since 1963 under the pseudonym "Pierre-Jean Remy" as writer worked and wrote during his life 67 novels and numerous essays . His other pseudonyms included Nicolas Meilcour, Raymond Marlot, Jean-René Pallas and Pierre Lempety. He also worked for many years as a theater critic for the weekly magazine “ Le Point ” and as a music critic for the magazines “Harmonie”, “Diapason” and “ Revue des Deux Mondes ”.

For his novel "Le Sac du Palais d'été" (Gallimard) he received the Prix ​​Renaudot in 1971 . For the novella “L'Orient-Express II” he was awarded the narrative prize of the Académie française in 1984 and the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française in 1986 for the novel “Une ville immortelle” .

His most important works also include:

  • “Et Gulliver mourut de sommeil”, Julliard, 1962.
  • "Midi ou l'Attentat", Julliard, 1963.
  • "Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de ce siècle", Gallimard, 1974.
  • " Callas , une vie", Albin Michel, 1979 ( biography )
  • " Don Juan ", Albin Michel, 1982.
  • “Comédies italiennes”, Flammarion, 1984.
  • " Berlioz ", Albin Michel, 2002.
  • "Villa Médicis: Journal de Rome", Odile Jacob, 2008.
  • “Voyage présidentiel”, Éditions du Seuil, 2010 ( posthumous ).

For his services, he was appointed to the Académie française on June 16, 1988 as the successor to the religious scholar and sociologist Georges Dumézil , where he held seat 40 ( armchair 40 ) until his death .

He was also Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur (C. LH) , officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

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personal data
SURNAME Rémy, Pierre-Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angremy, Jean-Pierre (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Angoulême
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2010
Place of death Paris