- Abel Bonnard
Abel Bonnard (
December 19 ,1883 –May 31 ,1968 ) was a French poet, novelist and politician. Born inPoitiers , his early education was inMarseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A student of literature, he was a graduate of theÉcole du Louvre and a member of theÉcole française de Rome .Politically, a follower of
Charles Maurras , his views evolved towardsfascism in the 1930s. Bonnard was one of the ministers of National Education under theVichy regime (1942-44). He was nicknamed by Pétain "la Gestapette" by French nationalists, a portmanteau ofGestapo and "tapette", the latter French slang for ahomosexual .Bonnard was one of only two members expelled from the
Académie française afterWorld War II for collaboration with Germany. (The other was the elderly writerAbel Hermant .) Bonnard was condemned "in absentia" to death during the "épuration légale " period for wartime activities. However,Francisco Franco granted himpolitical asylum in Spain. In 1960, he returned to France to face retrial for his crimes. He received a symbolic sentence of 10 years banishment to be counted from 1945, but dissatisfied with the verdict of guilty, he chose to return to Spain where he lived out the remainder of his life.Bibliography
*1906 "Les Familiers"
*1908 "Les Histoires"
*1908 "Les Royautés"
*1913 "La Vie et l’Amour"
*1914 "Le Palais Palmacamini"
*1918 "La France et ses morts"
*1924 "Notes de voyage : En Chine (1920-1921), 2 vol."
*1926 "Éloge de l’ignorance"
*1926 "La vie amoureuse d’Henri Beyle"
*1927 "L’Enfance"
*1928 "L’Amitié"
*1928 "L’Argent"
*1929 "Saint François d’Assise"
*1931 "Rome"
*1936 "Le drame du présent : Les Modérés"
*1937 "Savoir aimer"
*1939 "L’Amour et l’Amitié"
*1941 "Pensées dans l’action"
*1992 "Ce monde et moi" (selection of aphorisms, posthumous)External links
* [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/index.html L'Académie française]
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