Lucien Duplessy

Lucien Félix Duplessy (23 June 1895 – 24 August 1956) was a French writer.

Biography

Lucien Duplessy was born in Paris, the son of an insurance inspector. He attended the Collège Chaptal and the École normale supérieure at Saint-Cloud. Duplessy served with distinction in World War I. In 1919 he married Gilberte L'Honoré.

He contributed to Marges, Quotidien, La Grande revue, Atlantis, Comœdia, La Nouvelle revue critique and Mercure de France. Duplessy was awarded the Prix Fabien by the French Academy in 1948.

In 1952 he visited the United States and lectured on the "The Psychology of the Machine Age."

Lucien Duplessy died in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine.

Works

• L'Homme double (1926; short stories)
• La machine ou l'homme (1947)
• L'Esprit des civilisations, les lois de leur naissance, de leur vie et de leur mort (1955; translated into Spanish by Jesús López Pacheco)
• Bilan du monde moderne: retour au concret (1974)

Selected publications

• "Le Dialecte bureaucratique," La Grande revue, No. 10 (1923)
• "Maupassant, source de Gabriele d'Annunzio," Mercure de France (1927)
• "Mercantilisme et civilisation," La Grande revue (1934)
• "Mercantilisme et civilisation (suite et fin)," La Grande revue (1934)
• "Les grands travaux, la terre et le chômage," La Grande revue (1937)
• "Industrie et médecine," Défense de l'Homme, No. 19 (1950)

References

• Jean Duplessy, "Lucien Duplessy (1895-1956)", Cahiers de Chiré, No. 12 (1997).
• Raymond Christoflour, Les idoles. Lyon: E. Vitte (1961).

External links

• Works by Lucien Duplessy at Gallica