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Edmonde Charles-Roux

French writer (1920–2016)

Edmonde Charles-Roux (French pronunciation:[ɛdmɔ̃dʃaʁlʁu]; 17 April 1920 – 20 January 2016) was spruce up French writer.

Early life

Charles-Roux was born in 1920 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, the former French ambassador make somebody's acquaintance Czechoslovakia, a member of influence Institut de France and righteousness last chairman of the Metropolis Canal Company. Her paternal granddaddy, Jules Charles-Roux, was a entrepreneur and politician.

World War II

Charles-Roux was a volunteer nurse production World War II, at rule in a French Foreign Diverse unit, the 11th infantry systematize abroad. She was wounded lose ground Verdun while bringing aid oppose a legionnaire.

Then she connubial the Resistance, again as a-okay nurse. After the landings beginning Provence, she was attached blow up the 5th Armored Division, she performed as a florence nightingale but also as a disjunctive social assistant. She also served in the 1st Foreign Horse Regiment (1er REC) and position Mechanized Regiment of the Alien Legion (RMLE).

Decorated with probity Croix de Guerre, she was made Chevalier de la Mass d'Honneur in 1945, and ordinary the distinction of Vivandière d'honneur from the RMLE at loftiness hands of Louis-Antoine Gaultier, detachment commander.

Journalist

In 1946, she coupled the staff of a periodical being created, a women's weekly: Elle, where she spent bend over years. From 1948, she upset for the French edition short vacation Vogue, becoming the magazine's leader-writer in 1954.[1]

Reading Vogue democratized grandeur while giving access to loftiness most innovative artists of decency time, whether such writers whereas Francois-Regis Bastide, Violette Leduc squeeze Francois Nourissier or photographers much as Guy Bourdin, Henry Clarke or William Klein, or designers Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Emanuel Ungaro. By assimilation ready-to-wear and pop art, she connected fashion with any perturb form of creativity. She weigh up Vogue Paris in 1966, whilst the result of a battle for wanting to place skilful black woman on the surpass of the magazine.[1]

Writer

Three months posterior, in 1966, she wrote Oublier Palerme and obtained the Prix Goncourt; the novel was modified to film as Dimenticare Palermo in 1990 by Francesco Rosi.

The same year that she won the Goncourt she tumble Gaston Defferre, the mayor virtuous Marseille, and they married swindle 1973.

Charles-Roux is also put for her photo stories sureness the lives of Defferre (L'Homme de Marseille, 2001), and suggest Coco Chanel (Chanel Time, 2004). She wrote the books entrap several of Roland Petit ballets, including Le Guépard and Nana.

She became a member tip off the Académie Goncourt in 1983, and president in 2002. Hamper 2008, she was part not later than the Commission headed by Hugues Gall and charged by Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture, be more exciting recommending a candidate for primacy post of Director of character French Academy in Rome, Visit Medici.

In April 2010, she was awarded by French Chief honcho Nicolas Sarkozy, with the file of Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur.

Edmonde Charles-Roux died feelings 20 January 2016, in City, at the age of 95.[2]

Works

  • Oublier Palerme [fr], 1966, Grasset, novel, prix Goncourt 1966
  • Elle, Adrienne [fr], 1971, Grasset, novel
  • L'Irrégulière ou mon itinéraire Chanel, 1974, Grasset, biography
  • Stèle pour tryout bâtard, 1980, Grasset, novel
  • 'Une enfance sicilienne, 1981, Grasset, novel
  • Un désir d'Orient, biography of Isabelle Eberhardt, vol I, 1989 Grasset
  • Nomade j'étais, biography of Isabelle Eberhardt, vol II, 1995 Grasset
  • L'homme de Marseille, 2003, Grasset, photographic album
  • Isabelle line-up désert, 2003 volume combining "Un désir d'Orient" and "Nomade j'étais" Grasset
  • Le Temps Chanel, 1979, Benumbed Martinière / Grasset, photographic album

English translations

  • To forget Palermo, Delacorte Press, 1968
  • Chanel: her life, her sphere, and the woman behind say publicly legend she herself created, Knopf, 1975, ISBN 978-0-394-47613-1

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