Pierre Moinot

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Pierre Moinot (born March 29, 1920 in Fressines , † March 6, 2007 in Paris ) was a French writer and cultural politician.

Life

Moinot was born in 1920 to two teachers. He spent his childhood in Poitou and attended schools in Niort , Ajaccio and Périgueux . He won the Concours général in French and then attended the Khâgne literature preparation course at the Lycée Henri-IV and in 1940 in Caen . In 1942 he finished his studies with a diploma at the Institut de phonétique in Grenoble with a thesis on the French dialects Poitevin and Saintongeais .

While still a student Moinet was drafted into military service, was taken prisoner of war, but was able to escape and joined the Resistance in Grenoble. He was involved in the reconquest of Morocco , took part in the liberation of Italy and Operation Dragoon in southern France in 1944 and fought near Sigmaringen . Eventually he was injured in fighting in the Vosges and lived to see the end of World War II in a hospital.

In 1946 Moinot became an auditor at the French Court of Auditors . In 1959 he became advisor to the Minister of Culture André Malraux in the government of Charles de Gaulle - regardless of his more left political positions. Moinot concentrated primarily on theater and cinema: he campaigned for financial aid for the film industry, founded a theater department and a department for cultural activities in the new ministry, worked out the first “cultural development plan” and founded the Maison de la Culture . In protest against the lack of financial resources in cultural policy, Moinet resigned in 1962.

Four years later, Malraux called him back and Moinot became head of the arts and literature department. He took over the tasks of the departments he founded a few years earlier. He was also sent as a representative of the ministry in various committees and institutions. He sat on the Board of Directors of the Union Générale Cinématographique until 1970 , was a member and president of the Commission for Film Funding "Avances sur recettes au cinéma" until 1972, as well as a member of the French delegation of UNESCO and UNESCO expert in Iran and Brazil . Until 1974 he was also President of the Committee for Cultural Activities of the French Commission of UNESCO. In 1969 he advised the French government to undertake a comprehensive reform of the administration of the Ministry of Culture, which also meant the abolition of his post.

In 1969 he became a member of the commission for the reform of the public broadcasting program Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française and was then a member of the Board of Directors until 1972. As president of the “Commission for the Reorganization of the Media” in 1981, he had the idea for the “High Authority for Media Communication”.

Moinot was also a member of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International in France, served on the Council of the Legion of Honor and was President of the Council of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (until 1995). On January 21, 1982 he was elected to the Fauteuil 19 of the Académie française .

Moinot was from 1983 and until his retirement in 1986 as a representative of the public prosecutor "Procureur Général" at the French Court of Auditors.

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In 1947 Moinot published the novella La nuit et le Moment in Les Temps moderne and sent it to Albert Camus , who was impressed and supported him in finding a publisher. Moinot published several short stories and then in 1952 the Gallimard novel Armes et bagages . This was followed by other novels that received prizes: he received the Prix ​​Charles Veillon , in 1953 the Prix ​​Sainte-Beuve for La Chasse royale , in 1954 a Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française for La Chasse royale , the Prix ​​des Libraires for Le Sable vif (1963), the Prix ​​Femina for Le Guetteur d'ombre , the Rotary International Prize for Le Matin vient, et aussi la nuit (2000) and the Grand Prix Jean-Giono for Le Coup d'État (2004).

His work is strongly influenced by his meager childhood in the country and the great events of French history. In addition to novels and short stories , Moinot also published the play Héliogabale (1971) and also worked as a screenwriter ( Mazarin , 1978, Jeanne d'Arc , 1988, and La Laïque , 1998). Together with Jules Roy , he was a foreign correspondent in French West Africa on the lower Niger in 1956 . This time inspired him to do La descente du fleuve in 1991 .

Honors

Works

  • Armes and bags . Gallimard, 1952
  • La Chasse Royale . Gallimard, 1953
  • La blessure . Gallimard, 1957
  • Le voleur . Gallimard, 1960
  • Le Sable vif . Gallimard, 1963 ( Prix ​​des Libraires 1964)
  • Repos à Bacoli . 1966
  • Quand la liberté venait du ciel . 1967
  • La Griffe et la Dent , Denoël, 1977
  • Mazarin . Gallimard, 1978
  • Le Guetteur d'ombre . Gallimard, 1979 ( Prix ​​Femina 1979)
  • with Jean-François Griblin : Jeanne d'Arc . 1988
  • Joan of Arc, le pouvoir et l'innocence . Flammarion, 1988
  • La Descente du fleuve . Gallimard, 1991
  • Tous comptes faits . Quai Voltaire, 1993
  • TE Lawrence en guerre . Quai Voltaire, 1994
  • Attention à la peinture . Gallimard, 1997
  • Le Matin vient et aussi la nuit . Gallimard, 1999
  • La mort en lui . Gallimard, 2002
  • with Xavier Patier , Léon Mazzella and Philippe Verro : Chasses à cœur ouvert . Gerfaut, 2002
  • Coup d'État . Gallimard, 2003
  • La Saint Jean . Sigalla, 2003
  • Maison . Sigalla, 2004
  • La Saint Jean d'été . Gallimard, 2007

Scripts

  • 1960: La blessure
  • 1966: Retour à Bacoli , TV series based on a short story
  • 1967: Quand la liberté venait du ciel , TV series
  • 1969: La chasse royale
  • 1978: Mazarin ; Television series
  • 1985: La nuit et le moment , TV film
  • 1989: Jeanne d'Arc, le pouvoir de l'innocence , TV film
  • 2000: La laïque , TV film based on a novella

Plays

  • Héliogabale . Gallimard, 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Philippe-Jean Catinchi: Pierre Moinot, haut fonctionnaire et écrivain , Le Monde , March 9, 2007
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Biography at the Académie française
personal data
SURNAME Moinot, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French novelist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Fressines
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2007
Place of death Paris