Louis Bertrand (novelist)

Louis Bertrand ( born March 20, 1866 in Spincourt, Meuse, † December 6, 1941 ) was a French writer, essayist and historian, who was admitted to the Académie française in 1925.

Life

After schooling Bertrand studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. After graduating, he became a secondary school teacher at Lycéen in Aix -en- Provence, Bourg -en- Bresse, and finally from 1891 to 1900 in Algiers. During his tenure there, he laid in 1897 with his PhD.

After his stay in Algeria published in the following years numerous novels such as Le Sang des races (1899 ), La Cina (1901 ), Le Rival de Don Juan (1903), Pepete le bien unpopular ones (1904 ), L' Invasion ( 1907) Mademoiselle de Jessincourt (1911 ), Sanguis martyrum (1918 ), L' Infante ( 1921), Cardenio (1922 ) and Le Roman de la Conquête ( 1930). Many of these works reflect his experiences and adventures during his stay in the French colony of French North Africa, to the present-day Algeria belonged to resist. These experiences were also part of numerous essays on the Mediterranean and the Orient as La Grèce du soleil et des paysages (1908 ), Le Mirage oriental (1909 ), Le Livre de la Méditerranée (1911) and Devant l' Islam ( 1923).

Bertrand was also the author of numerous biographies of Augustine of Hippo, Therese of Lisieux, Louis XIV, Philip II of France, Gustave Flaubert, and numerous other personalities.

After he was in 1923 the playwright Georges de Porto- Riche inferior to the election as a member of the Academy, he was elected November 19, 1925 as the successor of Maurice Barres by 22 votes in the first ballot, a member of the Académie française, and took there until his death to the fourth chair ( fauteuil 4).

Other Publications

  • Catalogue du musée de la ville de Philippe Ville et des antiquités existant au Théâtre romain, 1891-1892
  • Raphelis Mengsii de doctrina antiquorum arte, cujus momenti in gallicos pictores fuerit, 1897
  • La fin du classicisme et le retour à l' antique dans la seconde Moitié you XVIIIe siècle et les premières années du XIXe siècle en France, 1897
  • Le Rival de Don Juan, 1903
  • Le jardin de la mort, 1905
  • Saint Augustin, 1913
  • Les plus belles pages de saint Augustin, 1916
  • Le sens de l' ennemi, 1917
  • Ernest Solvay, social réformateur, 1918
  • Autour de saint Augustin, 1921
  • Flaubert à Paris ou le mort vivant, 1921
  • Les villes d'or, 1921
  • Louis XIV, 1923
  • La vie amoureuse de Louis XIV, 1924
  • Jean Perbal. Une Destinée, 8 volumes, 1925
  • Ma Lorraine, souvenirs et portraits, 1926
  • Sainte Thérèse, 1927
  • La nouvelle éducation sentimentale, 1928
  • Hippolyte porte- couronnes, 1928
  • Philippe II, une affaire ténébreuse, 1929
  • Philippe II à l' Escurial, 1929
  • Histoire d' Espagne, 1929
  • Le livre de consolation, 1933
  • Verse Cyrene, terre d' Apollon, 1935
  • Hitler, 1936
  • L' Espagne, 1937
  • Sanguis martyrum, 1921
  • On internationalism the nations perish, 1936
  • St. Augustine, 1927
  • Louis XIV, 1927
  • St. Teresa, 1928
  • Spain, 1939
  • The court of Versailles, 1947
  • Fantasies in d way of Rembrandt and Callot, 1954

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Louis Bertrand in the catalog that German national library
  • Literature by and about Louis Bertrand in SUDOC catalog ( composite French university libraries )
  • Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
  • Teacher
  • Historian
  • Romance
  • Author
  • Essay
  • Novel, epic
  • Member of the Académie française
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Officer )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1866
  • Died in 1941
  • Man
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