Derenne (Charles) The Pilgrim Of Gascony + Manuscript + Letters
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DERENNES (Charles)
The Pilgrim of Gascony.
P., The French Illustrated Edition, 1918. In-8°, half-chagrin binding with corners, gilded head, cracked joints, wear on the caps, fresh interior, in casing (amateur), cover preserved, with all margins, XII-316 pp. First edition. First edition limited to 15 copies on Hollande, including the first seven not released to the market, here number 7
4 leaves entirely handwritten by the author from April 1914 (manuscript of the preface to this book) & 2 handwritten letters from the author also to his friend Marcel, to whom he offers these 4 handwritten leaves...
Charles Derennes, born on August 4, 1882 has Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died on April 27, 1930 has Paris, is a writer French.
Son of Gustave Derennes (1858-1889), associate professor of history then academy inspector and Breton writer, born in Charente and originally from Mayenne, and of Marthe Cassan, daughter of a baker and Aquitaine grain merchant from Villeneuvois, he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot. In 1892, he entered the Talence high school, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, where he completed his secondary studies; there he met the Dacquois poet Émile Despax (1881-1915), and Marcel Gounouilhou (1882-1939), future director of the daily Little Gironde with which he will collaborate, with whom he will remain linked. A bachelor in 1899, destined for a career as a teacher by family tradition, he went to Paris to prepare for the entrance exam to the École Normale Supérieure in Henri-IV High School and at Louis-le-Grand High School from where he gets kicked out. He took courses at the Sorbonne, obtained a degree in letters in 1903, frequented literary salons such as that ofAnna de Noailles and the poetic evenings of the magazine The Feather at the Caveau du Soleil d’Or.
In 1907, he received the Archon-Desperouses price.
THE May 11, 1909, he married Rosita Finaly in Paris, one of the banker's daughters Hugo Finaly, founder of the Bank of Paris and the Netherlands, an unhappy union which ended in divorce on January 19, 1911. During the Great War, he is a military nurse in the South-West (Marmande, Lévignac-de-Guyenne and Toulouse). He married his second wife in Paris, Mars 23, 1916, his partner Christiane (Jeanne Petit for civil status). Reformed in 1917, he settled temporarily in the Landes. Very attached to his native South-West which occupies a large place in his work, he has been a regular in Gascony since childhood and, from 1905, he was part of the group of writers (Rosny young, Paul Margueritte, Maxime Leroy notably) who, at the beginning of xxe century, made known Hossegor where he stayed regularly until the early 1920s.
THE December 10, 1924, he gets the Femina price For Émile and the others, third volume in the series Sentimental bestiary. Appointed knight of the Legion of Honor THE January 4, 1925, he died on April 27, 1930 then was buried in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
Poet, novelist, storyteller, essayist and critic, Charles Derennes began young in the world of letters, but notoriety and success came gradually. He has published more than fifty books in some twenty-five years of career, and has collaborated at the same time with numerous newspapers and magazines (The Auto, The Bayonet, Good evening, Burdigala, The Couch, The Double Bouquet, New Writings, The Hermitage, I saw..., The Journal, The Masters of the Pen, The morning, The Mercury of France, The French Muse, Little Gironde, The Feather, The Latin Renaissance, The Blue Review, The French Review, The Paris Review, The Weekly Review, French life, Parisian life...). He achieved great public success, especially after the war, several prizes including the Femina in 1924, and criticism was always favorable to him.
We know of him his superb collections of poems in which he demonstrated a perfect mastery of prosody, a perfection of form, a richness of inspiration and emotion: The Intoxicating Anguish, The Storm, The Song of the Two Maidens Or Persephone. We also owe him a volume of Occitan poems, Romivatge, a language he had practiced both written and spoken since his youth.
After Love spanked And The People of the Pole, before the war he published “Parisian” and gallant novels which initially appeared in the weekly Parisian Life : The Caprices of Nouche, The Crush of the Muses, The Mirror of Sinners, Nique and her cousins. Subsequently and until his death, he published other novels, of unequal interest, including: Summer Night, Cassinou goes to war, The Little Fauness, The Blue Fox, My Kid..., Ouily and Bibi, Basque loves, The Poor Man and his dog. Let us add to this list collections of stories and short stories: The Pilgrim of Gascony And The Idol Conquerors.
It is undoubtedly his Sentimental bestiary who popularized it among the general public after the war and which has three volumes: Life of Grillon, The Bat And Emile and the others. In these stories, he engaged in an attentive, passionate, tender and amazed observation of the animals that have populated his world since childhood (crickets, bats, cats, frogs, etc.). On the "margin" to this series, we can add a volume of childhood memories, The Child in the Grass, two novels, Mouti, cat of Paris, And Mouti, son of Mouti, and new stories collected in the volume God, the Beasts and Us. Lucky Charms.
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Son of Gustave Derennes (1858-1889), associate professor of history then academy inspector and Breton writer, born in Charente and originally from Mayenne, and of Marthe Cassan, daughter of a baker and Aquitaine grain merchant from Villeneuvois, he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot. In 1892, he entered the Talence high school, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, where he completed his secondary studies; there he met the Dacquois poet Émile Despax (1881-1915), and Marcel Gounouilhou (1882-1939), future director of the daily Little Gironde with which he will collaborate, with whom he will remain linked. A bachelor in 1899, destined for a career as a teacher by family tradition, he went to Paris to prepare for the entrance exam to the École Normale Supérieure in Henri-IV High School and at Lo
