André Chamson
André Chamson ( born June 6, 1900 in Nîmes, † November 9, 1983 in Paris) was a French writer, journalist and archivist. During the occupation ( Hitler ), he fought in the underground. In addition to numerous novels he wrote several volumes of political or philosophical essays. As a characteristic of Chamson applies its combination of regional concerns and social criticism.
Life
The South of France is growing in Le Vigan on in the Cevennes, which are also the preferred venue of his stories. Ennobled by your hard work population it will constitute as an example for the European people. After the lyceums of Alès and Montpellier Chamson studied history, palaeography ( knowledge of Scripture antiquities ) and art history in Paris. Initially working in the local National Library, he is from 1924 Secretary of State Commission for Art Education, from 1933 curator and curator at the Museum of the castles of Versailles and Trianon. 1934, the avowed Protestant and anti-fascists is appointed to the brief Daladier cabinet. From 1935 he has directed the co-founder of his own weekly Vendredi (Friday), which refers also anti-fascist positions, however, there is only until 1938. Chamson also supports Republican Spain. The Second World War, he contends, first with a captain. Then he looks after the evacuated to southern France art treasures from the Louvre. For the Resistance he does illegal work. After the liberation he takes his work as a curator again and, next, he is involved in the literary magazine Europe. For the Soviet Union, he joins with critical sympathy. From 1959 to 1971 he is archivist of the National Archives. In his novels, Chamson have to last employed with the clutter of history, would be destroyed by so many lives, writes Engler. Since 1956, André Chamson belongs to the Académie française. In Le Vigan, Montpellier and Meyrueis schools are named after him.
Works
- Attitudes, 1923
- Le Roux Bandit, novel, 1925, German ... who did not go with the other, Hamburg 1949
- L' Homme contre l' Histoire, essays, 1927
- Les Hommes de la route, novel, 1927, and Bamberg 1933
- Le Crime of Juste, Roman, 1928 ( The Crime of the Righteous )
- Tabusse. La fête et le char, 1928
- Clio, ou l' Histoire sans les Historiens, 1929
- Tyrol, essays, 1930
- L' Aigoual, 1930
- Histoire de Magali, 1930
- Histoires de Tabusse, 1930
- Li Nivo Eron si compagno. Companions of la Nuée, 1930
- La Révolution de dix- neuf, suivi de: Outline of a théorie de l' immunité, 1930
- Affirmations sur Mistral, 1931
- Heritages, novel, 1932
- L' Auberge de l' abyme, novel, 1933, German hostel in the Cevennes, Leipzig 1934, Munich 1954
- L' Année of vaincus, 1934
- Les Quatre Éléments, novel, 1935
- Retour d' Espagne, 1937
- La Galère, essays, 1939
- Quatre mois, carnet d'un officier de liaison, 1940
- Écrit en 1940, 1944
- Le Puits des miracles, novel, 1945, The German miracle fountain, Potsdam 1950
- Le Dernier Village, novel, 1946
- Écrit en 1944, 1947
- Fragments d' un liber veritatis 1941-1942, essays, 1947
- La Peinture française au Musée du Louvre, 1948
- Si la parole a quelque pouvoir, discours et articles de revues 1945-1947, 1948
- L' Homme qui devant moi marchait, novel, 1948
- Le Garçon, la Fille et la Bête, 1951
- La Neige et la Fleur, novel, 1951, German bloom under the snow, Stuttgart 1953
- On ne voit pas les cœurs, quatre actes, 1952
- La fin de " Greenville ", 1953
- Le Chiffre de nos jours, novel, 1954
- L' École de tout le monde, 1954
- Courbet, 1955, German: Gustave Courbet. 1819-1877, Verlag Kurt Desch, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1956
- Le drame de Vincennes. Bernard Grasset Éditeur, Paris, 1955.
- Adeline Venician, novel, 1956, German Stuttgart 1957
- Nos ancêtres, les Gaulois, 1958
- Mountain water, Zurich 1961
- Devenir ce qu'on est 1961
- Le rendez- vous des Espérances, 1961
- Comme une pierre qui tombe, novel, 1964
- La Petite Odyssée, novel, 1965
- La Superbe, novel, 1967
- Suite cévenole, 1968
- Suite pathétique, 1969
- La Tour de Constance, novel, 1971
- Les Taillons ou la Terreur blanche, 1974
- La Reconquête. From 1944 to 1945. Plon, Paris 1975
- Sans peur, novel, 1977
- Castanet le Camisard de l' Aigoual, 1979
- Catinat, gardian de Camargue, 1982
- Il faut vivre vieux, 1984