Georges Bayle ( 22 August 1918 - 13 January 1987) was a French writer.

Biography

A populist author, he published ''Du raisin dans le gaz-oil'' in 1954 dedicated to

Jacques Perret Jacques Perret was a French architect in the service of the Catholic King Henry IV of France. He was a Huguenot, from the Savoie Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè'' or ''Savouè-d'Avâl''; English: ''Savoy'' ) is a department in the Auvergne-R ...

with whom Georges Bayle was interned during the Second World War. The plot is located in the corporation of truckers. The novel was adapted by Michel Audiard under the title ' directed by

Gilles Grangier Gilles Grangier (5 May 1911 – 27 April 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 50 films and several TV series between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Archimède le clochard'' was entered into the 9th Berlin In ...

with Jean Gabin and

Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Mo ...

Work

Novels

*1954: ''Du raisin dans le gaz-oil'', Série noire #217 *1958: ''Les Déserteurs'', Collection Blanche, Gallimard

Collection of short stories

*1955: ''Le Pompiste et le Chauffeur'', Collection Blanche, Gallimard,

prix Cazes Brasserie Lipp is a brasserie located at 151 Boulevard Saint-Germain in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It sponsors an annual literary prize, the Prix Cazes, named for a previous owner. History On , Léonard Lipp and his wife Pétronille opened ...

1956

Others

* ''Cours de résistance des matériaux appliquée aux machines'', * ''Cours de statique graphique'', Eyrolles, 1948

Filmography

Adaptation

* 1955: ', French film directed by

, adaptation of the novel ''Du raisin dans le gaz-oil'', with Jean Gabin and

Actor

* 1957: ''

Burning Fuse ''Burning Fuse'' (French: ''Le feu aux poudres'') is a 1957 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Raymond Pellegrin, Charles Vanel and Peter van Eyck. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The films sets we ...

'', French film directed by

Henri Decoin Henri Decoin (18 March 1890 – 4 July 1969) was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who won the national title in 1911 and held the national record in the 500 ...

, with

Raymond Pellegrin Raymond Pellegrin (1 January 1925 – 14 October 2007) was a French actor. Born in Nice, Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature '' Naïs''. He was also famous in France for dubbing Jean Marais for the voice of Fantômas i ...

and Charles Vanel

Sources

* , ''Les Années Série noire'' vol.1 (1945–1959) Encrage « Travaux » #13, 1992 * Claude Mesplède and , ''SN Voyage au bout de la Noire'',

Futuropolis ''Futuropolis'' is a 1984 American short animated/stop motion science fiction film written and directed by Steve Segal and Phil Trumbo. The film introduces Tom Campagnoli, Mike Cody, Stan Garth, Catherine Schultz and Cassandra Cossitt in lead rol ...

, 1982, .

External links

Bibliography
on the site of Éditions Gallimard * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bayle, Georges 1918 births 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers French crime fiction writers 1987 deaths