Pierre Véry

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One of the stakes on the Pierre Véry path in Bellon
Pierre-Véry-Weg (Bellon): Prosper Châtaignier's house

Pierre Véry (born November 17, 1900 in Bellon , Charente department , † October 12, 1960 in Paris ) was a French writer and screenwriter . His most famous novels include Les Disparus de Saint-Agil , Goupi-Mains rouges and L'Assassinat du Père Noël , all of which were successfully made into films for the cinema. As an author of detective novels, he has also written books for young people.

biography

Pierre Véry was born in 1900 on a farm in the commune of Couret in Bellon near Aubeterre-sur-Dronne in the Charente department. He lived there for the first twelve years of his life while reading Jules Verne and Thomas Mayne Reid , Erckmann-Chatrian and Onésime Reclus. The Charent landscapes will form the background of Pont-Egaré , Goupi-Mains rouges and Métamorphoses . The young Pierre's predilection for fiction came from his mother. Even his earliest youth were filled with local legends that will then provide material for his novel universe. The father, a more pragmatic person, former mayor of Condé-sur-Noireau, was a math teacher who eventually lost his job because of his political activities.

After Condé-sur-Noireau et Angoulême, where he was a high school student, he became a student at the boarding school of Sainte-Marie de Meaux in 1913, the year in which he lost his mother. At the same time, he founded the secret society of Chiche-Capon, whose goal was to raise funds to to go to America, and to his novels adult Véry Les Disparus de Saint-Agil and Les Anciens de Saint-Loup inspire becomes. In 1915 he returned to his father, who lived in Paris at 111 Rue Lauriston; he had meanwhile become a fabric dealer.

Several professions later and after a few cycling races and aborted attempts to travel the world with his friend Pierre Béarn, Pierre Véry opened the Galerie du Zodiaque , a bookstore on offer, located on Rue Monsieur-le-Prince in Paris in 1914 . By 1932, the date he left the bookstore to Pierre Béarn, he saw many writers passing by, especially those who regularly visit the Maison des amis du livre ( The House of Book Lovers ) or Shakespeare and Company on Rue de l'Odéon visited: André Gide , Valery Larbaud, René Trintzius. He also tried literary journalism for the Journal litteraire and Paris-Journal , and continued to write for himself. During this period he was associated with Marcel Achard, Maurice Féaudierre, Georges Charensol, then, in the mid-1930s, Paul Gilson, Nino Frank and Roger Régent.

He initiated his literary career by publishing short stories and writing short articles for various magazines under the pseudonyms T. Tremeur and Simon Périgord. In 1929 his first novel, Pont-Égaré , was published , which achieved a respectable success and was included in the selection of the " Prix ​​Renaudot " and "Prix Fémina" literary prizes . The following year he received the first prize for adventure novels: the " Prix ​​du Roman d'Aventures " for Le Testament de Basil Crookes , a detective novel published in the "Le Masque" collection under the pseudonym Toussaint-Juge, although an error on the part of the editor Inside the work, the name Pierre Véry is revealed. Given the positive public reception, the author hesitated between wishing to become a "serious" author again or resolutely engaging in criminal fiction, hoping to renew its form. The following novels Danse à l'ombre (1931), Les Métamorphoses (1931), Le Meneur de jeu (1933) and Clavier universel (1933) reveal his doubts. In 1934 he finally chose the detective novel and created the character of Prosper Lepicq, who appeared in half a dozen investigations. From this point on, Véry's own style developed, who himself describes his stories as "Romans de mystères" ("mystery novels"). In fact, in his works as in the scripts, the wonderful and the fantastic come into contact with fear and adventure in a very unique way. That established its trademark. In 1938, thanks to the cinema, the public discovered to a greater extent the film adaptation of Les Disparus de Saint-Agil, the novel of the same name, Disparus de Saint-Agil , which had been published three years earlier.

In the 1950s he lived on Rue du Boccador in Paris, where he died of a heart attack in 1960. He regularly spent his holidays in Saint-Romain (Charente), where his father lived part of the year.

progeny

From his marriage to Jeanne Rouvin, Pierre Véry had three children: Madeline, Dominique and Noël. Noël Véry, well-known cameraman and initiator of the Steadicam in France, actively looks after the memory of his father's work.

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Novels

Series Prosper Lepicq

  • Meurtre Quai des Orfèvres (1934)
  • Monsieur Marcel des pompes funèbres (1934)
  • L'Assassinat du père Noël
  • Le Réglo (1934)
  • Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1935)
  • Le gentleman des antipodes (1936)
  • Le Thé des vieilles dames (1937)

Series Goupi-Mains rouges

  • Goupi-Mains rouges (1937)
  • Goupi-Mains rouges à Paris (1948)

Other crime novels

  • Le Testament de Basil Crookes (1930)
  • Le Baron Gaude, detective (1933)
  • Clavier universel (1933)
  • Le Meneur de jeu (1934)
  • Les Quatre Vipères (1934)
  • Les Trois Claude (1936)
  • Mam'zelle Bécot (1937)
  • Monsieur Malbrough est mort (1937)
  • L'Inspecteur Max (1937)
  • Series de sept (1938)
  • Madame et le mort (1940)
  • Mort depuis 100,000 ans (1941)
  • L'assassin a peur la nuit (1942)
  • L'Inconnue du terrain vague (1943)
  • Histoire de brigands (1943)
  • Les Anciens de Saint-Loup (1944)
  • Léonard ou les Délices du bouquiniste (1946)
  • Le Costume des dimanches (1948)
  • La Route de Zanzibar (1949)
  • Un grand patron (1951)
  • Le Guérisseur (1954)

Other novels

  • Pont-Égaré (1929)
  • Danse à l'ombre (1931)
  • Les Métamorphoses (1931)
  • Le Pays sans étoiles (1945), fantastic story
  • Au royaume des feignants (1946), science fiction
  • La Révolte des Pères Noël (1959), political fiction

Novellas

Novel collections

  • Les Veillées de la Tour Pointue (1937)
  • Cinéma, cyanure, et compagnie (1954)
  • Tout doit disparaître le 5 mai (1961), posthumous science fiction short story collection

Novellas from the Prosper Lepic series

  • Police technique (1935)
  • Prenez garde aux ballons rouges (1939)
  • La Dame des musées (1939)

Children's and young people's literature

  • Signé: Alouette (1960)
  • Les Héritiers d'Avril (1960)

Other publications

  • Lettre d'excuses à un assassin de romans policiers (2005)

Filmography

Screenwriter

Film adaptations of his works

  • 1938: The Secret of St. Agil (Les Disparus de Saint-Agil)
  • 1941: Murder on Christmas Eve (L'Assassinat du père Noël)
  • 1942: L'assassin a peur la nuit
  • 1943: A Fatal Family (Goupi Mains Rouges)
  • 1943: Madame et le Mort
  • 1946: Le Pays sans étoiles
  • 1950: Les Anciens de Saint-Loup
  • 1951: Un grand patron
  • 1957: L'Assassinat du père Noël
  • 1967: Signé alouette (TV movie)
  • 1976: Le Gentleman des Antipodes (TV movie)
  • 1990: Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (TV movie)
  • 1994: Goupi mains rouges (TV film)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nouvelle recueillie dans Les Veillées de la Tour Pointue .
  2. ^ Nouvelle recueillie dans Cinéma, cyanure, et compagnie .
  3. ^ Nouvelle recueillie dans Cinéma, cyanure, et compagnie .
  4. ^ Édition posthume d'un article anciennement paru dans le supplément de la revue Signes .

literature

  • Jacques Baudou and Jean-Jacques Schleret, Le Vrai Visage du Masque , Volume 1, Paris, Futuropolis, 1984, pp. 441-444.
  • Claude Mesplède, Dictionnaire des littératures policières , volume 2, Nantes, Éditions Joseph K., coll. Temps noir, 2007, p. 181 (Prosper Lepicq) and p. 959–960.

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personal data
SURNAME Véry, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellon , Charente department
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1960
Place of death Paris