- Henri Béraud
Henri Béraud (born
21 September 1885 inLyon , died24 October 1958 inSaint-Clément-des-Baleines ) was a French novelist and journalist.Life
Henri Béraud was the son of a baker. In 1903 he began his work in journalism. [ [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9208344 Biography.com] ] He later became known as one of France's best-selling novelists and reporters, and won the
Prix Goncourt in 1922. He was violently Anglophobic and to a lesser extent antisemitic. These factors led him to supportVichy France . [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=1Quy-vW3HCgC&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=%22henri+beraud&source=web&ots=DTT3FoX0v3&sig=YBoF4CPoA7HSwSWdP0MJs5ORO0E&hl=en The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach By Alice Yaeger Kaplan: page 204] ] He did this by contributing pieces to "Gringiore", indicating his hatred of British forces and criticism of the Free French, although he also censured Nazism. His aid of the Vichy government caused him to be sentenced to death in 1944, but the sentence was commuted byCharles de Gaulle to life imprisonment. By 1950 he was freed for health reasons. He died eight years later. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810606,00.html Time Magazine obituary] ]Works
* L'École moderne de peinture lyonnaise (1912)
* Le Vitriol de Lune (1921, prix Goncourt 1922)
* Le Martyre de l’obèse, (prix Goncourt 1922)
*Lazarus , Albin Michel, 1924
*Ce que j'ai vu à Moscou, Les Éditions de France 1925
*Le Bois du templier pendu, Les Éditions de France, 1926
*Ce que j'ai vu à Berlin, Les Éditions de France, 1926
*La Gerbe d'or, Les Éditions de France, 1928
*Ce que j'ai vu à Rome, Les Éditions de France 1929
*Qu’as-tu fait de ta jeunesse ? (1941)
*Les Lurons de Sabolas (1932)
*Ciel de suie (1933)
*Faut-il réduire l'Angleterre en esclavage (1935)
*Les raisons d'un silence, Inter-France, 1944
*Les derniers beaux jours, Plon, 1953
*Portraits de contemporains.
*Retour sentimental vers Alphonse Daudet, 2001
*Écrits dans Gringoire (1928-1937), 2003
*Au Capucin Gourmand
*Le Flâneur salarié
* "Rende-vous européens" , Les Éditions de France, 1928External links
* [http://fr.novopress.info/?p=8553 Novo Press]
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