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André Magre PRESIDENCE 4 Handwritten Cards & Letter

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 4 handwritten cards handwritten autographs & letter a typewritten letter to the poet Fernand Gregh

Georges Lecomte, born in Mason THE July 9, 1867 and died at Paris THE August 27, 1958, is a novelist, playwright, art critic, author of literary, historical and artistic studies and man of letters dreyfusard French. He was elected in Mars 1907 to the committee of the Society of Men of Letters (SGDL) at the same time as Jules Bois And Daniel Lesueur ; the following year, upon the departure of the president Paul Margueritte, he is elevated to the presidency of the Society and remains there for two years while the vice-presidents are Daniel Lesueur And Jules Bois, then Daniel Lesueur and Maurice Leblanc. He was again elected to the Committee in Mars 1913 (after the departure of René Doumic) and returned to the presidency of the SGDL for three years. It was under his second presidency that the jubilee of the Society was organized in July 1913 and created the Widows’ Denier to help the most pressing cases of writers’ widows.
He puts all his energy and determination into defending the interests of French writers, and ensures that the rights of writers to their works are respected in accordance with the rules of international justice proclaimed in Bern, Paris and Berlin (ex. : the vote of the Duma in Russia, or the reprinting of French newspaper articles by the Romanian press).
In May 1907, he created with a certain number of colleagues (among whom Edmond Haraucourt, J.-H. Rosny, Victor Marguerite, Daniel Lesueur, Maurice Leblanc, Marcel Prévost, etc.) the Society of French Novelists and Storytellers: this society is a moral and financial defense association for the use of French writers whose works are often betrayed and pillaged abroad. Its object is to obtain good translations of said works by recruiting good and honest translators, and to safeguard abroad the pecuniary interests of the writers translated and reproduced. The first vice-president is Maurice Leblanc, while the general agent is Paul Fischer.
L’French Academy awards him the Vitet price in 1910.
In 1924, he was elected member of theFrench Academy, of which he becomes the permanent secretary THE Mars 28, 1946. He died at his home in 16e borough THE August 27, 1958, (it is noted that in 1910, he lived 82 rue du Ranelagh).
He is decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
He is Petainist during the war.
Widower of Berthe Godchau (1861-1933), Georges Lecomte is the father of the novelist and journalist Claude Morgan (1898-1980).

 to the committee of the Society of Men of Letters (SGDL) at the same time as Jules Bois And Daniel Lesueur ; the following year, upon the departure of the president Paul Margueritte, he is elevated to the presidency of the Society and remains there for two years while the vice-presidents are Daniel Lesueur And Jules Bois, then Daniel Lesueur and Maurice Leblanc. He was again elected to the Committee in  ) the Society of French Novelists and Storytellers: this society is a moral and financial defense association for the use of French writers whose works are often betrayed and pillaged abroad. Its object is to obtain good translations of said works by recruiting good and honest translators, and to safeguard abroad the pecuniary interests of the writers translated and reproduced. The first v