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Academician F. Gregh BRONZE 50 mm, 62 grs First Prize 1886

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Bronze, Lycée de Vanves, 4th quarter of the classic year 1886, class of fourth, first in three consecutive compositions, signed Brenet 

Fernand Gregh, born on 14 october 1873 has Paris 9e and died on 5 January 1960 in the 16e borough of the same city, is a poet And literary criticism French elected to theFrench Academy in 1953.

Fernand Gregh is the composer’s son Louis Gregh (1843-1915). He continued his studies at Michelet high school, then Louis-le-Grand and at Condocet, Or Marcel Proust is his fellowship. In 1890, he obtained the first prize for French composition at general competition, then he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.

Young man, he became a regular at the Mme Arman of Caillavet, where he continues to rub shoulders with Marcel Proust. In 1892 he founded a review entitled The banquet who publishes his first lines, and those of Proust, as well as writings of Daniel Halévy,, Robert de Flers,, Jacques Bizet,, Jacques Baignères,, Gaston Arman de Caillavet, all youth friends from Gregh and Proust. The young Léon Blum A few pages publish there, as well asHenri Bergson out of friendship for these young people.

Gregh founded in 1902 the humanist school which intended to give poetry its tradition Hugolian or his romanticism at the Lamartine. He indeed wishes to limit the influence of symbolism and opposes Parnassians.
He married Harlette HAYEM in 1903.

He will be president of the Society of people of letters in 1949-1950.

Gregh is elected to theFrench Academy in 1953, at the headquarters of Charles de Chambrun, when he was going to be eighty years old, the same day as Pierre Gaxotte and that the Duke of Lévis-Mirepoix. 

He rests with his wife in the cemetery of Thomery. He is the father of François-Didier Gregh and Geneviève Gregh, first wife of Maurice Druon.

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Fernand Gregh is the composer’s son Louis Gregh (1843-1915). He continued his studies at Michelet high school, then Louis-le-Grand and at Condocet, Or Marcel Proust is his fellowship. In 1890, he obtained the first prize for French composition at general competition, then he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.  Arman of Caillavet, where he continues to rub shoulders with Marcel Proust. In 1892 he founded a review entitled The banquet who publishes his first lines, and those of Proust, as well as writings of Daniel Halévy,, Robert de Flers,, Jacques Bizet,, Jacques Baignères,, Gaston Arman de Caillavet, all youth friends from Gregh and Proust. The young Léon Blum A few pages publish there, as well asHenri Bergson out of friendship for these young people. Gregh founded in 1902 the humanist s