Fernand Gregh
Fernand Gregh ( born October 14, 1873 in Paris, † January 5, 1960 ibid ) was a French poet and literary critic.
The son of the composer Louis Gregh attended lyceums Michelet, Louis -le- Grand et Condorcet, where Marcel Proust was his classmate, and then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.
In 1896 he founded the literary journal Le Banquet, in which he published his first poems and was attended by Marcel Proust, Daniel Halévy, Robert de Flers, Jacques Bizet, Leon Blum, Henri Bergson, Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Henri Ribaud and Henri Barbusse cooperated. In 1896 he published his first volume of poetry Maison de l' Enfance. He handed him at the suggestion of Ludovic Halévy at a poetry competition of the Académie Française, and thus won the doped with 2,000 francs Prix Archon Pespurouse.
Gregh took the Dreyfus Affair position, the France stirred up strong. On January 15, 1898 Le Temps published a petition that also Gregh had signed, in the revision of the miscarriage of justice against Alfred Dreyfus was demanded. Growth was this petition by Émile Zola and many well-known personalities from different fields.
Despite his failing health - Gregh suffered, inter alia, since childhood migraine - he traveled extensively through Europe, the U.S., Canada and Cuba. Since 1949 he was president of the Société des Gens de Lettres. In 1953 he was elected to succeed Charles de Chambrun a member of the Académie française.
Among many volumes of poetry Gregh also wrote plays and aged several autobiographical books. He was honored as Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour. His son François Didier Gregh (* 1906) was from 1969 to 1972 Minister of State of Monaco.
Works
- La Maison de l' Enfance, poems, 1897
- La Beauté de Vivre, poems, 1900
- La Fenêtre Ouverte, essays, 1901
- Manifeste de l' Humanisme, 1902
- Les Clartes Human, poems, 1904
- L' Or des Minutes, poems, 1905
- Prelude Féerique, 1908
- La Chaine Eternelle, poems, 1910
- La Couronne douloureuse, poemes sur la Guerre (1917 ), 1917
- Triomphe, 1919
- Couleur de la Vie, poems, 1923
- Choix de Poesies, 1928
- La Gloire du Coeur, play (UA with Sarah Bernhardt ), 1933
- Tableau de la Française poetry, 1933
- La Contesse Noailles
- L' ouvre de Victor Hugo, 1935
- Portrait de la Française au XIX Siecle poetry, 1936
- Les Amants Romantiques, play, 1937
- Portrait de la Française au XX siecle poetry, 1938
- C'ETAIT l' Espagne, travelogue, 1940
- La Couronne perdue et retrouve, 1945
- L'Age d'or, souvenirs d' enfance et de jeunesse, 1947
- Theatre Féerique, 1950
- L' Age d' airain, 1951
- L'Age de fer, 1955
- Le Mot du Monde, poems, 1957
- Mon amitié avec Marcel Proust - souvenirs et lettres inedites, 1958