biography
pronunciation:
[brabeeyak]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909–45)
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| biography:
| French poet and novelist. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and became critic for L'Action Française until 1943, where he wrote Charles Maurras Polémiste, for whom he had great admiration. He also contributed a drama column to the Revue Universelle. His novels include Le Voleur d'Etincelles (1932), L'Enfant de la nuit (1934), and Notre Avant-Guerre (1941. Histoire du Cinéma remains an important reference book. In 1940 he became editor of Je suis Partout, a review sympathetic to the Nazis, and visited the burial ground at Katyn. Arrested at the Liberation, he wrote some poems, Ecrite à Fresnes (1944) and Barreaux (1945), whose prayers were recorded by Pierre Fresnay. For the stage he wrote La Reine de Césarée (performed 1957) on the war in Spain, in collaboration with Maurice Bardèche. His Lettres Ecrites en prison were published in 1952. Condemned to death, his pardon was rejected, and he was executed on 6 February 1945. |
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