Georges Lecomte
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Georges Lecomte (9 July 1867 – 27 August 1958) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies.
Lecomte was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. In 1924 he was elected to the Académie française, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1946.[1] He was also director of the École Estienne. He died in Paris.
Works
[edit]Plays
[edit]- La Meule, 4 acts, Paris, Théâtre-Libre, 26 February 1891
- Mirages, 5 acts, Paris, Théâtre-Libre, 6 March 1893
Novels
[edit]- Les Valets, contemporary novel (1898)
- La Suzeraine (1898)
- La Maison en fleurs (1900)
- Les Cartons verts, contemporary novel (1901)
- Le Veau d'or (1903)
- Les Hannetons de Paris (1905)
- L'Espoir (1908)
- Bouffonneries dans la tempête (1921)
- La Lumière retrouvée (1923)
- Le Mort saisit le vif (1925)
- Le Jeune Maître (1929)
- Les Forces d'amour (1931)
- Je n'ai menti qu'à moi-même (1932)
- La Rançon (1941)
- Servitude amoureuse (1949)
- Le Goinfre vaniteux, comic=satirical novel (1951)
Other
[edit]- L'Art impressioniste d'après la collection privée de M. Durand-Ruel (1892)
- Espagne (1896)
- Les Allemands chez eux (1910)
- Les Lettres au service de la patrie (1917)
- Pour celles qui pleurent, pour ceux qui souffrent (1917)
- Clemenceau (1918)
- Au chant de la Marseillaise. Danton et Robespierre. L'Ouragan de la Marseillaise. Marceau et Kléber (1919)
- Louis Charlot (1925)
- La Vie amoureuse de Danton (1927)
- La Vie héroïque et glorieuse de Carpeaux (1928)
- Les Prouesses du Bailli de Suffren (1929)
- Le Gouvernement de M. Thiers (1930)
- Thiers (1933)
- Steinlen. Chats et autres Bêtes. Dessins inédits. Texte de Georges Lecomte (1933)
- Gloire de l'Île-de-France (1934)
- Ma traversée (1949)
References
[edit]- ^ "Académie française". Archived from the original on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
External links
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Categories:
- 1867 births
- 1958 deaths
- People from Mâcon
- 19th-century French novelists
- 20th-century French novelists
- 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- French literary critics
- Members of the Académie Française
- French male novelists
- 19th-century French male writers
- 20th-century French male writers
- French male non-fiction writers