4 Autographed CDV Henry Bordeaux (French Writer) ca 1925

Description: [SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER - FRENCH WRITER 19th/20th]-Beautiful and rare set of 4 Bristol business cards (CDV) 3 cards approximately 8.5x6.5cm1 card approximately 14x9cmHenry BORDEAUX1870-1963Henry Bordeaux Armchair 20 of the French Academy writer, essayist, lawyer, academician Member of French Academy (1919)Conflicts First World WarWorld War IIDistinction National Order of the Legion of Honor- Henry Bordeaux, born January 25, 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains and died Mars 29, 1963 in Paris, is a French lawyer, novelist and essayist, originally from Savoie.BiographyHenry Camille Bordeaux came from a Catholic and royalist family which he describes notably in La Maison (1912) and in Le Pays sans ombre (1935). His childhood was notably rocked by his aunt Dine's hope of the accession to the throne of the Count of Chambord. "I belong to a family which has always marched at the vanguard of the monarchical and conservative party."In his Memoirs, he returns to his family origins. His father, Lucien Bordeaux, was from Saint-Girons (Ariège); more generally, the Bordeaux family came from Couserans. Lucien Bordeaux arrived in Savoy in November 1860, shortly after the union with France. In 1862, he opened a law office there which, without interruption, through him or his sons, was to remain open for sixty-three years.Also in 1862, he married Miss Fréchet whose maternal family, a family of magistrates, cultivated and religious, was distantly related to that of Saint Francis de Sales. The Bordeaux settled in Thonon where they had nine children, the first of whom did not survive. They first settled in a house which belonged to Miss de Charmoisy, the Philotea of The Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint François de Sales and Saint Jeanne de Chantal stayed there, then in "the House", built by the father of Henry Bordeaux, located on what is now Boulevard Carnot. The couple also owned a holiday home in the hamlet of Trossy, about ten kilometers from Thonon.The Bordeaux couple had, besides Henry, four sons and three daughters. Literary career“My literary vocation blends in with my college years. » At the age of 16, after obtaining his baccalaureate in Chambéry, Henry Bordeaux left for Paris to study law and literature. He notably met Alphonse Daudet there and his son Léon, François Coppée, Verlaine, Léon Bloy.A lawyer following his father, Henry Bordeaux was registered, after his law studies in Paris, with the bar of Thonon (1889), but it was not long before he turned to writing. His writing career spanned from 1887 (first published poem Rebecca, awarded by the Académie de Savoie) in 1960, the year of her last book (The Reversed Torch).Following the official rallying of the Church to the Republic (1892) and the construction of the social doctrine of the Church, Henry Bordeaux became a Republican. In 1893, at the request of the Committee of the Republican Right of Savoie, he took charge of the newspaper Le Réveil de Savoie intended to defend the candidacy of Me François Descostes for the post of deputy of Chambéry, without success.The political ideas of Henry Bordeaux, which are refined over time and in his writings, are close to the social Catholicism of Frédéric le Play or Albert de Mun, political relays of the rallying from the Church to the Republic.In 1894, while he was working in Paris as a lawyer-editor at the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean Company, he published his first book, Modern Souls, which he sent to his favorite writers by chance. “A few days later, on the last day of October 1894, I deciphered a four-page letter which was signed: Paul Bourget. It has been a long time, he said, since I have experienced as much pleasure from reading a volume as from yours. »After some early works of a broader spirit (such as his first novel L'Amour qui passe, also known as The Fairy of Port-Cros or The Way of No Return in which we find a perfume by Pierre Loti), Henry Bordeaux focuses on types of characters (men or women) whose traditional and Christian moral positions find expression in a concrete commitment to daily life; commitment that he himself summarizes in the long preface (1905) which he attached to his novel The Fear of Living (1902). Engaged at the time of the Dreyfus affair, Henry Bordeaux relates in volume II of his memoirs, La Garde de la maison, his conversation with his future father-in-law who on January 30, 1899, directly addressed the subject that divided the whole of France. Both were convinced of the probity and innocence of Captain Dreyfus.However, it is difficult to summarize such an abundant work, comprising more than two hundred works, covering all genres: poetry, theater, novels, psychological novels, detective novels, short stories, biographies, literary studies, critical studies, historical studies, memoirs, travel stories. He wrote most of these works in his house at Maupas in Cognin.He became an associate member of the Academy of Savoy on Mars 5, 1903, then effective on Mars 2, 1910.Henry Bordeaux, elected member of the French Academy in 1919, was a witness, and sometimes actor, of important periods both historically (First World War, social movements of the 1930s, Second World War) than at the level of the evolution of morals: modification of the place occupied by women in couples and in society, improvement in the living conditions of workers. This concern for concrete commitment to his time is found in all his work.This work is often set in Savoie: Chambéry (Les Roquevillard), the Maurienne valley (The Dead House, The New Children's Crusade, La Chartreuse du Reposoir), Chablais (La Maison, Le Pays sans ombre)… Henry Bordeaux's novels are steeped in traditional values, in line with René Bazin and especially Paul Bourget, whom he recognized for a long time as a “master” and whose differentiated a little later (read “Paul Bourget Intimate”, Revue des deux Mondes, 1952). Although the characters in his novels are depositories and guardians of traditional values in France, they are also sometimes involved in the expansion of French influence in the world (religious, industrial, military), like members of his own family (see detail above).At the end of the 1930s (the years of the Popular Front), Henry Bordeaux, always inspired by social Catholicism, took a clear stand for improving the living conditions of the poorest (housing, hygiene, health, food) in his novels. The Tugboat, Involuntary Crimes - living conditions that he compares with the luxury, the failings and the hypocrisies of the nobility and the upper bourgeoisie.On the eve of the war, he undertook a trip to Germany which allowed him to take a look at what Germany had become, prey to National Socialist ideology. He lucidly painted a portrait of the new Germany, amazed at its recovery and condemning the control of the new power over people's minds.In 1940, he took a stand for Marshal Pétain, a friend since the First World War whom he actively supported and whom he met regularly at least until 1943. He approved the full powers, which he recounted in his book (The walls are good, 1940), and largely shared the objectives of the National Revolution.The end of the Second World War marks a break in Henry Bordeaux's career: in September 1945, he was included on a Purification list of the National Committee of Writers, before being removed in October 1945 thanks to the intervention of Georges Duhamel (perpetual secretary of the French Academy) anxious to protect the honor of the Institution, and to restore the honor of Henry Bordeaux who published during the war, among others , a novel about Hitler "The man who alone holds the power to unleash the misfortune of a pointless and senseless war on the world, the man who exercises this power without hesitation when faced with his responsibility , ranks himself among the monsters (...)”. STANLEY Hoffmann cites him among the “Maurrassian conservatives and authoritarian conservatives” (as opposed to fascists pro-Germans) who took power in Vichy in 1940. This traditionalist conservatism did not prevent him from joining, in 1950, the Association of Friends of Robert Brasillach (the latter, editor-in-chief of I am everywhere, having been shot in 1945 for acts of collaboration).In October 1954, General de Gaulle wrote a dedication to him on a copy of his book Mémoires de guerre: L'Appel, 1940-1942 in these terms: "To Mr. Henry Bordeaux whose work has so nourished my spirit and my feeling. No doubt he would have been surprised to read in the last volume of Henry Bordeaux's memoirs how much the latter did not appreciate him and still accused him of having been the man of the division.In 1944, while Charles Maurras was imprisoned in Lyon, Henry Bordeaux, a lawyer by training and solely concerned that the latter be granted a fair trial, writing to Mr. de Menthon, Keeper of the Seals, in these terms: "[...] You have undoubtedly guessed that it is Charles Maurras to whom binds me to a camaraderie born in the Latin Quarter more than fifty years ago, a camaraderie which has never shaken my religious and political convictions and has never attracted me towards Action Française, so that my approach is an approach of friendship and contains no particle of adhesion to its doctrines. When I was designated by the French Academy to receive him under the dome, I made my reservations even in the sympathy I reserved for him [...]”. He will repeat these words during the trial of Charles Maurras in January 1945. He was an architect (in particular through his letters, partly cited in his memoirs) of the presidential pardon granted to Charles Maurras, a few months before his death, by the president Vincent Auriol for medical reasons.Under the Dome, Henry Bordeaux takes a stand for some of the immortals struck with national indignity, in line with the French Academy which supported all its members.After the war, the traditional ideas and values defended in his novels became more and more anachronistic. In The Light at the End of the Path (1948), he looks back on his past by introducing us, as if on an initiatory journey, to “the real characters who (from 1900 to 1915) acted on brains and hearts or on walking. events”: Bergson, Jean Jaurès, Déroulède, Mistral, Barrès, Maurras, Péguy, Psichari. He occasionally collaborates with Courrier français.His “accomplished work”, Henry Bordeaux, from 1951, began writing his Memoirs. In 1959, he recounted his memories as an academician (Forty years among the forties). At the end of his life – he was over 90 years old – he was surprised to see that the world was turning away from the paths he had traced. His work is both one of the richest, and certainly also one of the most read of the first half of the 20th century; several of his novels sold more than 500,000 copies, and some works were translated into many languages, including Japanese. The American edition of the book The Knight of the Air. Guynemer's Heroic Life was prefaced by President Theodore Roosevelt. He participated for many years in the Revue des deux Mondes. For nearly sixty years, Henry Bordeaux, now forgotten, was theone of the most popular French novelists. - 4 CDV One map is dated 1926, the other 3 are also dated around 1925 - [Provenance from Georges or Louis Boulay]- Good general condition cf. visuals...- Rare As always, combined shipping costs in case of multiple purchases... Related keywords cdv emile henry french sword california cdv cdv frame cdv african cdv french cdv 1925 Provided by

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