André Chaumeix

André Chaumeix (* June 6, 1874 in Chamalières, Puy -de- Dôme, † February 23, 1955 in Passy, Paris) was a French journalist and literary critic.

Life

Chameix was a son of Alexandre Chaumeix and his wife Solange Fargeix; Abrahan -Joseph Chaumeix was a distant ancestor of him. He spent his school years at the Paris Lycée Henri IV, to which then a visit to the École normale supérieure joined. From 1898, he attended the French School in Rome for two years.

In the spring of 1900 Chaumeix returned to France and settled in Paris. He started as a journalist at the Journal of the working débats and was in 1905 appointed there to the senior managing editor. In parallel, he has written for various other newspapers and magazines, such as Gazette des Beaux -Arts, Le Gaulois or Revue de Paris.

After the First World War Chaumeix continued working as a journalist and editor. Between 1926 and 1930 he served as chief editor of Le Figaro and also for the arts section of the Revue des Deux Mondes, he was responsible.

On May 22, 1930, the Académie française Chaumeix appointed as successor to the deceased in the previous year politician Georges Clemenceau ( armchair 3). He himself followed in 1955 the historian Jérôme Carcopino on this place after.

Chaumeix died at the age of 80 years on the same day as his friend and colleague Paul Claudel Academy; on 23 February 1955 in Passy ( 16th arrondissement ). At the cemetery Cimetière de Passy, he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

• Chroniques et études. Plon, Paris 1960.