Pierre Devoluy

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Pierre Devoluy (real name Paul Gros-Long; born June 27, 1862 in Châtillon-en-Diois , Département Drôme ; † March 6, 1932 in Nice , Alpes-Maritimes ) was a French pioneer officer , writer, Romanist and Provençalist , Capoulié ( Chairman) des Félibrige .

life and work

Paul Gros-Long, who came from a Protestant family, graduated from the École polytechnique and became a pioneer officer in southern France. He served in Montpellier and Antibes . In his spare time he was active as a writer under the pseudonym Pierre Devoluy and was on the editorial staff of the magazine Chimère. Revue de littérature et de critique indépendante (later Revue d'insolence littéraire , Montpellier / Paris 1891–1893) and wrote in French, but also in Provençal , in contact with René Ghil .

Devoluy became involved from 1894 on the side of Frédéric Mistral in Félibrige, where he rose to majoral (member of the academy) in 1900 and held the post of Capoulié (president elected for four years) from 1901 to 1909. From 1905 to 1914 he was the magazine Prouvènço! later Vivo Prouvènço! for which he won Jules Ronjat as an employee. Due to his close contact with Mistral, his widow commissioned him to edit the papers he had bequeathed.

Devoluy spent his retirement in Nice, where he was an alderman for Mayor Jean Médecin from 1929 to 1932 and involved in the creation of the Center Universitaire Méditerranéen, which he did not live to see in 1933.

Devoluy was Commander of the Legion of Honor (1924).

Works

  • Bois ton sang , Paris 1892
  • Les Noms de la carte dans le Midi. Essai sur les noms de lieux du comté de Nice , Nice 1903
  • Colonel Gros-Long, La Connaissance de la guerre. Essai de critique positive , Paris 1922
  • La Cévenne embrasée , 3 vols., Paris 1922–1931, Nîmes 1997, Paris 2002 ( trilogy of novels )
    • Le Psaume sous les étoiles , 1922
    • Le Violier d'amour , 1927
    • Sous la croix , 1931
  • (Ed.) Frédéric Mistral, Proso d'armana , Paris 1926; Nouvelle prose d'almanach , Paris 1927; Dernière prose d'almanach , Paris 1930 (bilingual); Proses de l'almanach provençal , Anglet 2008
  • Le Psautier Huguenot , Paris 1928
  • La Nationalité de Nice , Nice 1939, Orthez 2007 (posthumous)
  • Mistral et la rédemption d'une langue , Paris 1941, 7th edition 1943 (History of Provencal literature and language from the 16th century to Mistral, with sharp criticism of the language policy of the French Revolution , posthumously)
  • Istòri naciounalo de la Prouvènço e dóu Miejour di Gaulo , Ollières / Draguignan 1994 (posthumous)

literature

  • Dictionnaire de biographie française 11, 1967, p. 218
  • Correspondance Frédéric Mistral - Pierre Devoluy 1895-1913 , ed. by Charles Rostaing , 2 vols., Nîmes 1982
  • Simone Lheureux, Il était une foi… Paul Gros-Long dit Pierre Dévoluy , Nîmes 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dossier: LH / 1208/59 on the website of the French Ministry of Culture, accessed on April 6, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Devoluy, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dévoluy, Pierre; Gros-Long, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pioneer officer, writer, Romanist and Provençalist, President of Félibrige
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Châtillon-en-Diois
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1932
Place of death Nice