François Porché

François Porche ( born November 21, 1877 in Cognac, † April 19, 1944 in Vichy) was a French poet, writer and literary historian.

Life and work

Porche attended schools in Cognac and Angoulême ( there as a classmate of Jérôme Tharaud ). He studied law in Paris and published poems in the Cahiers de la Fortnight, side by side with Charles Peguy and Alain -Fournier (whose partner he married in 1915 ). From 1907 to 1911 he was a tutor in Moscow.

After the war, he mitmachte at the front, he lived as a journalist and Homme de lettres. He wrote (often time-related ) plays (eg, via Lenin) and books about authors of the 19th century, especially Baudelaire, Verlaine and Tolstoy.

Porche won the 1923 Grand prix de littérature de l' Académie française.

Works

• Peguy et les " Cahiers ", in: March Mercure de France 1, 1914
• Paul Valéry et la poésie pure, Paris 1926, 1946
• La Vie douloureuse de Charles Baudelaire, Paris 1926 (304 pages)
• L' Amour qui n'ose pas dire son nom, Paris 1927 ( on Oscar Wilde and André Gide )
• Poètes français depuis Verlaine, Paris 1929
• Verlaine tel qu'il fut, Paris 1933, 1939, 1949 ( 444 pages )
• Verlaine, Paris 1933 (127 pages)
• Portrait psychologique de Tolstoï ( de la naissance à la mort ) 1828-1910, Paris 1935, 1949
• Baudelaire et la présidente, Paris 1941, 1959
• Baudelaire. Histoire d'une âme, Paris 1945, 1967