Henry Bordeaux
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Henri Bordeaux (January 25, 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains - March 29, 1963) was a French writer and lawyer.
Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers in Savoy. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chambery bar. In his early life, he moved backwards and forwards between Savoy and Paris and the tensions between provincial and city life strongly marked his outlook. In his professional life he observed closely the break up of numerous families and analysed the causes and consequences of these. From the age of seventeen he spent three years in Paris studying law. Then he returned to practice law in Savoy. He returned to Paris after the publication of his first book in 1894. When his father died in 1896 he returned to Savoy.
His novels included:
- Le Pays natal (1900)
- La Peur de vivre (1902)
- La Petite mademoiselle (1905)
- Les Roquevillard (1906)
- Les Yeux qui s’ouvrent (1908)
- La Croisée des chemins (1909)
- La Robe de laine (1910)
- La Neige sur les pas (1911)
- La Maison (1913)
- La Résurrection de la chair (1920)
- La Chartreuse du reposoir (1924)
- La Revenante (1932)
His writing was likened to Paul Bourget's.
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| Preceded by Jules Lemaître |
Seat 20 Académie française 1919–1963 |
Succeeded by Thierry Maulnier |
