Lucie Faure, ''née'' Meyer (6 July 1908 – 25 September 1977) was a French woman of letters, novelist and literary review director.
Early life
The daughter of a merchant of fabrics of Alsatian origin, she was the niece, on the maternal side, of
Julien Cain
Julien Cain (10 May 1887 – 9 October 1974) was the general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (then called the Bibliothèque nationale) before the Occupation of France by Nazi Germany.
In August 1937, Cain was one of ...
, who was administrator general of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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from 1930 to 1964.
In 1931, she married
Edgar Faure
Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.American landing of 8 November, she was attached to the
French Committee of National Liberation
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and organised the Institute of Slavic Studies at the
University of Algiers
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.
It is also in Algiers that she created in 1943 with the writer
Robert Aron
Robert Aron (1898–1975) was a French historian and writer who wrote a number of books on politics and European history.
Early life and career
Robert Aron was born in Le Vésinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern France ...
the magazine ', which would be the first to be published in Paris the day after the Libération of France and of which she assured the direction until her death. Numerous issues of ''La Nef'' were milestones, such as those devoted to contemporary political and social problems (the
Algerian war
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Close to the milieu of the Paris intellectual left during the era of
decolonization
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of North Africa, she assisted and advised her husband in his various political functions, generally defending positions more advanced than his own by avoiding placing herself on the front of the political scene. However, she accepted to succeed him in 1970 as mayor of
Port-Lesney
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Population
See also
*Communes of the Jura department
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The author of a ''Journal d'un voyage en Chine'' which drew attention (1958), she began a career as a novelist from the 1960s. Her eight novels (to which were added seven short stories in a posthumous work) reflect less her great familiarity with political circles than "her intimate curiosity about things of the heart" ( B. Poirot-Delpech). The psychological complexity of the subjects tackled, such as delirious jealousy, suicide, parricide or ill-assumed homosexuality, was "compensated by an extreme concern for clarity and a kind of optimistic candor". A member of the jury of the Prix Medici since 1971, she exercised a great influence in the literary world of Paris.
Death and legacy
She died in her property of Boissise-la-Bertrand (Seine-et-Marne). She is buried at
Passy Cemetery
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The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (''l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy'', located on Rue Lekain), ...
in Paris.
She held the rank of commandeur of the
Légion d'honneur
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.
Bibliography
*1958: ''Journal d'un voyage en Chine'',
Éditions Julliard
Éditions Julliard is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by René Julliard.
Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson. After Julliard's death in July 1962, the ...
*1961: ''Les Passions indécises'', novel, Julliard
*1963: ''Les Filles du Calvaire'', novel, Julliard
*1965: ''Variations sur l'imposture'', short stories,
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 ...
*1968: ''L'Autre personne'', novel, Julliard (
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 ...
Éditions Grasset
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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'', ...
*1978: ''Les Destins ambigus'', Grasset
References
* ''
Le Monde
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'', 27 septembre 1977 (articles by B. Poirot-Delpech and P. Viansson-Ponté)