Pierre de Lescure

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Pierre Lescure (called de Lescure; born March 30, 1891 in Oran , Algeria , † September 20, 1963 in Courbevoie ) was a French writer , journalist and editor . Lescure was best known as co-editor of the Éditions de Minuit (midnight editions) together with Jean Bruller since 1941. Bruller published under the pseudonym Vercors . The first published work was Le Silence de la mer ( The Silence of the Sea ), which was followed by 24 other works by authors from the Resistance until the liberation of France ( La Liberation ) .

family

De Lescure comes from a middle-class family. He is the child of Pierre Lescure (no title of nobility) and Flore Henry. He is the grandson of Jules de Lescure, who was the director of the Algerian railways. Jules de Lescure was the Second Empire (Republican opponent Second French Empire ), who after the end of the July Monarchy (1830-1848), the nobility no longer led.

De Lescure married Marie Marcelle de Gentile on June 30, 1917, who came from a family of officers. Marie Marcelle de Gentile's father, Dominique de Gentile (1863-1944) graduated from the Saint-Cyr Military School . He was from Corsica . Her mother came from a notable family from Langres . Her two brothers Maurice Mettrier (1864–1939) and Henri Mettrier (1874–1949) have published numerous scientific papers. He is the father of François Lescure (* 1920, † April 12, 1992), who worked as a communist author for L'Humanité , and the grandfather of Pierre Lescure (* July 2, 1945), who is also a journalist.

Career

Originally interested in a diplomatic career, he enrolled at the École libre des sciences politiques in Paris, but fell ill. In 1911 he met the Dominican scholar and Dominican Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges , who influenced him greatly. Sertillanges brought him back to Catholicism and to participate in La Revue des Jeunes . This is how de Lescure came into contact with the duties of an editor. He gave up work in La Revue des Jeunes after disputes with some employees and founded La Quinzaine critique des livres et des revues . This one was a failure. During this time he published two detective novels under the pseudonym Pierre Anzin in 1935 at Editions Gallimard, with some success .

His political development from pacifism through the Catholic social movement to the Resistance and his proximity to the Parti communiste français (PCF) also influenced his son and grandson.

Publications

His books have not yet been translated into German

Under the pseudonym Pierre Anzin
  • Trois baignoires . Paris, Gallimard , 1935.
  • Le Chapeau sur l'étang . Paris, Gallimard, 1935.
Under his own name
  • Pia Malécot . Paris, Gallimard, 1935.
  • Tendresse inhumaine . Paris, Gallimard, 1936.
  • Souviens-toi d'une auberge . Paris, Gallimard, 1937.
  • Le Souffle de l'autre rive . Annemasse Éditions du Mont-Blanc, 1946.
Tome I: Démons mes amis… Annemasse, Éditions du Mont-Blanc, 1946.
Tome II: Qui es-tu Seigneur? Annemasse, Éditions du Mont-Blanc, 1946.
  • Sans savoir qui je suis . Paris, Plon, 1955.
  • Les Retardataires . Paris, Del Duca, 1957.
  • La season des consciences . Paris, Julliard, 1959.
  • Aragon novelist . Paris, Gallimard, 1960.

literature

  • Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Pierre de Lescure, département des manuscrits, Don 24 467.
  • Claude Faux: Notice nécrologique de Pierre de Lescure. In: Les Lettres françaises . September 26 - October 2, 1963, pp. 1-11
  • Vercors: La Bataille du Silence, souvenirs de Minuit (The Battle of Silence, Memories of Minuit), Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1967.
  • Jacques Debû-Bridel: Les Éditions de Minuit, Historique et bibliographie (Les Éditions de Minuit, History and Bibliography), Paris, Minuit, 1945.
  • Henri Temerson: Biographies des principales personnalités françaises décédées au cours de l'année 1963. l'auteur, Paris 1968

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Anne Simonin, Les Éditions de Minuit. Le devoir d'insoumission, Paris, IMEC, 2008 (new edition), p. 30
  2. ^ Anne Simonin: Les Éditions de Minuit. Le devoir d'insoumission . (The duty to resist), Paris, IMEC 2008 (new edition), p. 30
  3. ^ Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges (1863–1948), professor of philosophy at the Institut catholique de Paris and specialist in Thomas Aquinas .
  4. ^ Anne Simonin: Les Éditions de Minuit. Le devoir d'insoumission . Paris, IMEC 2008 (new edition), pp. 34–36.
personal data
SURNAME Lescure, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lescure, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, journalist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Oran , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1963
Place of death Courbevoie