Georges Batault
Georges Batault (28 June 1887 – 3 February 1963) was a Swiss historian, novelist and philosopher.
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Biography
Georges Batault was born in Geneva. A novelist, essayist and poet, Batault was also interested in the philosophy of history. A noted contributor to the Mercure de France, he is also known for his literary criticism of Victor Hugo.[1] Most of his work was published in Paris.
Batault was war correspondent to the Gazette de Lausanne during the Great War. During the Second World War, he took refuge in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Jean-Louis Panicacci wrote about him: "He was contacted by the engineer Claude Bourdet, who had withdrawn to Vence, and first came into contact in Cagnes-sur-Mer with the royalist writer Georges Batault, who was at odds with Action Française and whose son was a Gaullist. At his home, he met the Polish captain "Vincent" Jordan Rozwadowski, General Kleeberg's deputy, who asked him to provide his network with economic intelligence".[2]
In Paris, he lives at 17, rue Marbeau, where he hid Jean Paulhan when the latter was denounced as a Jew by Marcel Jouhandeau's wife in May 1944.
Private life
He married Eugénie Plekhanov (died 1964), daughter of Georgi Plekhanov, who gave him a son, Claude Batault (1918–2008), a French diplomat and partisan.[3]
Works
Major publications
- La Guerre Absolue (1919)[4]
- Le Problème Juif (1921)
- A la recherche des dieux. Sibyl (1925; novel)
- A la recherche des dieux. Le Colloque Avec Pan (1926; novel)
- Le Pontife de La Démagogie, Victor Hugo (1934)[5]
- Comment La Guerre A Éclaté (1940)
- Les animaux malades de la peste (1946)
Selected articles
- "L'Hypothèse du « Retour éternel » devant la science moderne," Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, Vol. LVII (1904)
- "Essai sur la Sensibilité Contemporaine," Mercure de France, Vol. LXXXVI (1910)
- "Le Probléme de la Culture et la Crise du Français," Mercure de France, Vol. XCII (1911)
- "Les Tendances de la Poesie contemporaine," Mercure de France, Vol. XCIX (1912)
- "Tocqueville et la Littérature américaine," Mercure de France, Vol. CXXXV, No. 510 (1919)
- "Le Nouveau Déséquilibre Européen," Mercure de France, Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 521 (1920)
- "Les dessous de la politique anglaise," L'Éclair, No. 11766 (1921)
- "Comment meurt une Nation." Contre-Révolution, No. 1/2 (1938)
Notes
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- Ambrière, Francis (1935). "Hugophobes et Hugolâtres. Notes pour servir à l'Histoire d'un Cinquantenaire," Mercure de France, Vol. CCLX, No. 887, pp. 225–45.
External links
- Georges Batault (1887-1963)
- Works by Georges Batault at Hathi Trust
- Works by Georges Batault at Gallica
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- ↑ Farrère, Claude (1934). "Victor Hugo et les bonnes gens qui l'ont choisi pour Dieu," Gringoire, No. 313, p. 4.
- ↑ Panicacci, Jean-Louis (2003). La Résistance azuréenne. Serre, p. 26.
- ↑ Who's who in France; qui est qui en France; dictionnaire biographique, 1984-1985. Paris: Editions Jacques Lafitte (1984), p. 90.
- ↑ Beard, Charles A. (1921). "La Guerre Absolue," The New Republic, Vol. XXVIII, No. 355, pp. 109–10.
- ↑ Lacretelle, Jacques de (1934). "Le cas Hugo," Marianne, No. 106, p. 4.
