Guy Dupré (February 27, 1928 – January 17, 2018) was a French writer and publisher.

Biography

Dupré published three novels, two books of memoirs and a collection of chronicles, but the unity of his style and his writing unconcerned with traditional genres makes the same voice heard from one book to the other. At the time of its publication (1953), his first work, ''Les Fiancées sont froides'', was hailed by

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, and

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. This poetic and initiatory account, with its rather obscure intrigue, bears the imprint of German Romanticism. Plotting a fugitive hussar in the time of the Napoleonic wars, it is set on the shores of the Baltic Sea and is not without evoking '' Le Coup de Grâce'' (1939) by

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. The subject and the style of the book earned Dupré to be attached to the movement of the

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. Guy Dupré joined the publishing house Plon, which has long specialized in military memorabilia. He prepared a biography of General Charles Mangin that was never completed but whose face would appear in ''Le Grand coucher''. He made an anthology of

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(''Mes Cahiers'', Plon, 1962), an anthology of the ''Chroniques de la Grande Guerre'' of the same (Plon, 1968), as well as the cross-correspondence between Maurice Barrès and

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: ''La République ou le Roi, correspondance 1888-1923'', Plon, 1970. Close to novelist , he wrote the preface for his ''L'Étoile de l'Empire invisible'' (Guy Trédaniel, 1994).

Bibliography

*1953: ''Les Fiancées sont froides'', Plon *1986: ''Les Mamantes'',

Éditions Grasset The Grasset Editions () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). History Founder In 1913, Bernard Grasset publishes the first volume of ''À la recherche du temps perdu'', by Marcel Proust, '' Du côté de chez Swann'', ...

*1989: ''Les Manœuvres d'automne'', Éditions

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, Prix Novembre *1996: ''C'est le sang de l'amour et le sang de la peine'',

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*2001: ''Comme un adieu dans une langue oubliée'', Grasset *2002: ''Dis-moi qui tu hantes'', éditions du Rocher *2006: Reprint in one vol. of the three novels: ''Les fiancées sont froides, le Grand Coucher, les Mamantes,'' followed by "Guy Dupré ou les deux histoires enlacées", from ''Écrivains de France, XXe siècle'' by , and an interview with Sarah Vajda, Éditions du Rocher *2010: ''L'âme charnelle, Journal 1953-1978'', Éditions Bartillat In 2003, Guy Dupré was awarded th
Grand Prix de Littérature Henri Gal
of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

for ''Dis-moi qui tu hantes'', and his life achievement.

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