Jean d'Ormesson
Jean Bruno Vladimir François- de -Paule Le Fèvre d' Ormesson ( born June 16, 1925 in Paris ) is a French writer and journalist, member of the Académie française. He is considered the " Nestor of the French literary criticism ".
Life
D' Ormesson is the son of a French diplomat André d' Ormesson ( André Le Fèvre d' Ormesson, 1877-1957 ), the French Ambassador in Bucharest and Rio de Janeiro was (and previously temporarily attaché in Germany ). Among the ancestors who had their seat since the 16th century in Ormesson -sur -Marne, near Paris, was one among others, a minister under Louis XVI. , Another was the rapporteur in the case against finance minister Nicolas Fouquet. His mother Marie Anisson du Perron (died 1975) came from the conservative (formerly royalist ) Family Le Peletier, which traditionally provided the Speaker of Parliament in Paris before the French Revolution, and D' Ormesson spent his summer holidays in the castle of Le Peletier family in Saint- Fargeau what he in his novel How it is pleasing to God (French Au Plaisir de Dieu ). Further stations of his youth were the sites of action of his father, Munich and Bavaria ( 1925-1933 ), after which he spoke better German than French in their own words, Bucharest and Rio ( 1937 ). From 1939 he studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure high school literature, history and philosophy.
The writers with the reputation of a Dandies (nicknamed Jean d' O) began his career as a journalist; he published his first article in 1950 in Paris Match, followed by others in magazines such as Elle, Marie Claire, La Nouvelle Revue Française, Le Parisien. From 1952 he was deputy editor and since 1971 chief editor of cosmopolitan intellectuals magazine Diogène ( Diogenes ), founded by Roger Caillois.
From 1974 to 1977 he was General Manager of Le Figaro, for which he also wrote columns. D' Ormesson also appears frequently in literary programs on French TV.
He got an "official" position, thanks to the mediation of a student and friend: In 1950 he was General Secretary of the " International Council for Philosophy and Humanities " ( Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines ) at UNESCO ( based in the former Hotel Majestic in Paris ) which he became president in 1992. Ormesson was also repeatedly Cabinet of advisors ( the Ministry of Education and the Secretary of Youth and Sports ) and in several French official delegations, for example, the UN General Assembly in 1948.
His novels often reflect his social background. For his popular success La Gloire de l'Empire (1971 ) he was awarded the " Grand Prix du Roman " of the Académie française. Another great success was Au Plaisir de Dieu (1974). For Voyez comme on danse ( 2001 ) he was awarded the Prix Combourg. In addition to novels, he also wrote essays, historical books (for example to others about Jules Mazarin 1959), biographies (such as Chateaubriand, who was by his own admission one of his models ), and a literary history. His works Au plaisir de Dieu Mon dernier rêve sera pour vous were filmed for television; in the latter miniseries he took over a small supporting role. In 2012, he starred in the role of the French president in the feature film The cook and the President in theaters.
D' Ormesson is the Legion of Honour in 2002 Grand Officer. Although it has accepted the order, but refuses to wear it. In 1973 he was appointed as successor of Jules Romains member of the Academie Francaise, as at that time the youngest ever appointed member since Maurice Barres. In 1979 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
His brother Henry d' Ormesson (1921-1995) was a senior administrative officer and senior executive at Electricité de France, and in 1971 the Inspector General of Finance. His uncle Vladimir d' Ormesson (1888-1973) was also a writer and academician as well as French ambassador to Rome and Buenos Aires.
He is the father of the publisher Héloïse d' Ormesson (* 1962) from the same publishing house, in which d' Ormesson published.