Gaston Chérau
Gaston Chérau (6 November 1872 – 20 April 1937) was a French man of letters and journalist. Biography The son of an industrialist, Gaston Chérau died in Boston during a lecture tour. A journalist and chronicler, he regularly gave the press his impressions of travel. In 1911, he traveled through Tripolitania conquered by the Italians on behalf of '' Le Matin'' newspaper. In 1914, he was a war reporter for the newspaper ''L'Illustration'' in Belgium and the North of France. A fertile novelist of the province, his pen is very influenced by the Berry where he had family roots, stayed a part of his childhood, and where he returned assiduously on vacation in a second home until the end of his life. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1926. He was also interested in cinema and wrote the dialogues of the film ''Les Deux mondes'' (1930) directed by Ewald Andreas Dupont. Literary work He is the author of about forty novels. *1901: ''Les grandes époques de ...
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Prissac
Prissac () is a commune in the Indre department in central France. Gaston Chérau (1872–1937), a writer and member of the Académie Goncourt is buried in Prissac. Geography The commune is located in the parc naturel régional de la Brenne. The river Abloux flows west through the southern part of the commune, then flows into the Anglin, which forms all of its southwestern border. Population See also *Communes of the Indre department The following is a list of the 241 communes of the Indre department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Indre {{Indre-geo-stub ...
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