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realized in 1992,

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taking the role of Fouché and

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that of Talleyrand, which made him discover by the general public.

Biography

The son of an industrialist

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Entretien avec Jean-Claude Brisville
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publishing house then became a reader for the

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. In 1957, he wrote and published the first study about

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who made him his last secretary until 1959. R. Quilliot, ''Roger Quilliot fait le point'' in Albert Camus n°18, , '' Les Lettres Modernes'', Paris, 1999. The family responsibilities made him renounce the risky profession of playwright and devote himself entirely to that of publisher. In 1964, after he became a literary director, he made

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known in France by publishing a new edition of the "Journal de guerre", thanks to the determination of In 1970, he established a lasting friendship with

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who accepted the adaptation he wrote for the television production that

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did of the ''Beau Ténébreux''. In 1976, he was appointed director of

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. His dismissal in 1981 at the age of sixty, made him reconnect with his pen and settle his accounts with the medium of publishing in the form of a satirical piece, ''Le Fauteuil à bascule'' where an editor is opposed to an avid boss. The success of the play at the Petit Odéon and the led him, after several failures with other creations, to resume the process of dialogue between two characters, each incarnating a cause opposite to the other, Descartes and Blaise Pascal for reason and faith, the

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and Julie de Lespinasse for the old and the modern, Talleyrand and Fouché for political genius and arrivism,

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and

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for tragic destiny and honest pettiness. It is in '' L'Antichambre'' that he expressed all his melancholy for a French language in the process of disappearance. In 1984, he approached René Char, a brother in writing of Albert Camus. Starting in 1997, he began a work of "anamnesis" "Not to be alien to oneself" which he published, faithful to

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, in the form of fragments of the past which related less to his person than to their times, memories mixed with

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s with pessimistic humor. Jean-Claude Brisville was a Chevalier of the

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and Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Works

Theatre

*1946: ''Les Emmurés'', three-act play, directed by Émile Dars,

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*1955: ''Saint-Just'' *1972: ''Le Rôdeur - Nora - Le Récital'', three 1-act plays with 3 characters (1970) *1982: ''Le Fauteuil à bascule'' *1983: ''Le Bonheur à Romorantin'' *1985: '' L'Entretien de M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune'' *1986: ''La Villa bleue'' *1989: ''Le Souper'' *1991: ''L'Antichambre'' *1993: ''Contre-jour'' *1995: ''La Dernière Salve'' *2007: ''Sept comédies en quête d'acteurs''

Essays

*1948: ''Prologue'' *1954: ''La Présence réelle'' *1959: ''Camus'', la Bibliothèque idéale, NRF

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*1998: ''De mémoire'' (Souvenirs) *2006: ''Quartiers d'hiver'' (Souvenirs) *2009: ''Rien n'est jamais fini'' (Souvenirs)

Novels

*1954: ''D'un amour'',

Prix Sainte-Beuve The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury ...

*1962: ''La Fuite au Danemark'' *1972: ''La Petite Marie'', published by Gallimard, under the pseudonym Sylvain Saulnier) *1976: ''La zone d'ombre'' *1982: ''La Révélation d'une voix et d'un nom'' *2002: ''Vive Henri IV''

Tales

*1975: ''Les Trèfle de Longue-Oreille. Première aventure : Petit Trèfle en péril'' (

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Jeunesse) *1975: ''Les Trèfle de Longue-Oreille. Deuxième aventure : Lançons le cerf-volant'' (Grasset Jeunesse) *1975: ''Les Trèfle de Longue-Oreille. Troisième aventure : Et hop dans le chapeau'' (Grasset Jeunesse) *1973: ''Un hiver dans la vie de Gros-Ours'' (Grasset Jeunesse) *1977: ''L'Enfant qui voulait voir la mer'' (Jean-Pierre Delarge éditeur, Prix des 50 plus beaux livres 1977) *1978: ''Oleg, le léopard des neiges'' (tale for children) *1981: ''Le Ciel inévitable'', illustrations by (Éditions de l’amitié) *1981: ''Oleg retrouve son royaume'' (tale for children)

Screenwriter

* 1970: ''La nuit se lève'' by (TV) * 1984: ''Le Bonheur à Romorantin'' by Alain Dhénaut (TV) * 1992: ''

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'' by

* 1996: '' Beaumarchais, l'insolent'' by Édouard Molinaro after a play by Sacha Guitry ;Actor * ' by

Francis Girod Francis Girod (9 October 1944 – 19 November 2006) was a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film '' L'enfance de l'art'' was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. In 1994 h ...

References

External links

''Jean-Claude Brisville, une vie pour la littérature''
on ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of r ...

'' (14 August 2014)
''Le Souper''

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