Jacques Chardonne
Jacques Chardonne ( born January 2, 1884 in Barbezieux -Saint-Hilaire, † May 29 1968 in La Frette -sur- Seine), officially called Jacques Boutelleau was a French writer. Coming from a family of cognac merchants, his father Georges Boutelleau was a writer. His mother, a Quaker American origin, was one of the heiresses of the Haviland porcelain factories in Limoges. His pseudonym is due to the Swiss community Chardonne, where he lived for some time and worked.
From 1926 to Jacques Chardonne lives with Camille Belguise at Villa Jacques Chardonne, which was built by Henri Pacon in La Frette -sur -Seine.
For some time he took over the management of the bookstore Delamain ( Stock, Delamain and Boutelleau ), which nowadays is part of the Gallimard publishing group.
Under the occupation
Germano Phil, he took in October 1941 with other French writers such as Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Robert Lach Brasil, on a journey through Germany on the occasion of the European Writers Congress in Weimar in part. In 1942, he traveled again to Germany, again with Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. The German sculptor Arno Breker, who traveled in 1942 to an exhibition of his works in Paris, described him as always very interested in German culture and their spirit. He praised him as someone who had the courage, in the soldiers who occupied Paris, to see future partners.
After the liberation he feared a firing squad to fall prey to, because he had collaborated with Vichy. As his publisher Bernard Grasset, he was arrested on 12 September 1944 in Jarnach and detained for several weeks in prison Cognac. After he had contacted some influence people, he was placed under house arrest. The sale and production of his books was banned. Later, his innocence has been established by a court of driving.
Work
As the author of the rights considered, it may be considered that called themselves " Les Hussards ", namely Roger Nimier, Jacques Laurent and Antoine Blondin as the spiritual father of those.
He also was a member of the movement " ' Ecole de Barbezieux " along with Geneviève Fauconnier, Henri Fauconnier, Maurice Delamain, Jacques Delamain, Germaine Boutelleau without that he shared the views of your members.
His first work L' épithalame (1921 ) was a relationship novel. Was followed by Les Varais (1929 ), Eva (1930) and Claire (1931 ), where he distinguished himself as a novelist and moralist, and finally in L' amour du prochain (1932 ) went over to melancholy descriptions.
Jacques Chardonne wrote about 20,000 letters. For this was that it constituted on squared paper his true opinion, as he were lying on white paper. His friends were aware of this agreement.
Francois Mitterrand has frequently expressed his admiration for Chardonne.
Summer in La Maurie first appeared in La Nouvelle Revue Francaise N ° 322 in December 1940, the author describes it as a farmer from the Charente, which offers an officer Cognac and thereby expresses. "I would have preferred to have invited you. .. but I will give from the Cognac from the heart. "
Gérard Boutelleau
His son Gerard (1911-1962) lived in 1942 with André Gide in Tunis, which was occupied by the Germans in late 1942. Gérard was deported because of resistance activities to Oranienburg. Chardonne could use his influence with Gerhard Heller contends. Gérard was dismissed, however he went back to the resistance, was arrested in 1944 again, but managed to escape. Well Heller came to his specifications in trouble.