Catherine Gide (18 April 1923 – 20 April 2013) was a French writer and editor. She was the daughter of

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism (arts), symbolist movement, to the advent o ...

and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, daughter of

Théo van Rysselberghe Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Biography Early years Born ...

Biography

Catherine Gide was born in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed ...

, France, on 18 April 1923. She was the natural daughter and only child of

, Nobel Prize for Literature, and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe (daughter of Maria and painter

). She was recognized by her father on the death of Madeleine, wife of André Gide, and adopted on 26 July 1938. She first married the Germanist and academic (1914–1999); their son Nicolas, born in 1947, died young in a traffic accident, in 1986. They had three more children, Isabelle (born in 1945), Dominique (born in 1948), and Sophie. Gide later remarried to Pierre Desvignes. After his death she married the academic , a specialist in André Gide and his entourage. In 2009 she published the collection of interviews ''Entretiens 2002-2003''. With this publication, Catherine Gide shared for the first time personal memories about her childhood, while the public was presented with information about Gide's role as father, which before the release of this work had been scarcely documented in secondary literature. Gide also edited, among others, ''Lettres à la Petite Dame : un petit à la campagne, juin 1924-décembre 1926'', published by

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Ga ...

in 2000. Catherine Gide lived for a long time in

Cabris Cabris is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department The following is a list of the 163 communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. The ...

(Maritime Alps) in her vacation home. The Fondation Catherine Gide was created in 2007 at her initiative. It is headquartered in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. Its purpose is to "keep the memory of André Gide and of his time alive", fostering the "literary and cultural heritage of the author". In 2019 the foundation organized an exhibition in Paris on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of André Gide together with the Gallimard Gallery of Paris, the Fondation des Treilles, and the Musée Georges-Borias d’Uzès. Catherine Gide died on 20 April 2013 in

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(German-speaking Switzerland), at the age of 90.

Bibliography

* Élisabeth Van Rysselberghe, ''Lettres à la Petite Dame : un petit à la campagne, juin 1924-décembre 1926'', texts chosen and presented by Catherine Gide, Gallimard, 2000 * ''Théo Van Rysselberghe intime'', exposition, Le Lavandou, Espace culturel, 8 July-18 September 2005, catalogue : Catherine Gide, Raphaël Dupouy, Jean-Paul Monery, Peter Schnyder * André Gide, ''Le Ramier'', foreword by Catherine Gide, preface by Jean-Claude Perrier, afterword by David H. Walker, Gallimard, 2002 * Maria van Rysselberghe, « L'Enfant Catherine », ''La Nouvelle Revue française'', n° 580, January 2007, pp. 108–130 * Théo Van Rysselberghe, Catherine Gide, ''Théo Van Rysselberghe intime'', Réseau Lalan, 2002, * Catherine Gide, ''Entretiens 2002-2003'', Gallimard, 2009

References

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