Raymond Escholier, real name Raymond-Antoine-Marie-Emmanuel Escolier, (25 December 1882 – 19 September 1971) was a French journalist, novelist and art critic. He was curator of the
Maison de Victor Hugo and of the
Petit Palais
The Petit Palais (; en, Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...
.
Bibliography
;Novels and short stories
*1924: ''Le Sel de la terre'', Éditions Malfère
*1925: ''Quand on conspire'',
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'' ...
*1928: ''Mahmadou Fofana'', Crès
*1930: ''L’Empereur aux yeux bleus'',
Albin Michel Albin may refer to:
Places
* Albin, Wyoming, US
* Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, US
* Albin, Virginia, US
People
* Albin (given name), origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin"
* Albin (surname)
;Mononyms
* Albin of ...
, in collaboration with
Clément Vautel
*1931: ''L'herbe d'amour'', Albin Michel, 1931.
*1933: ''Sang Gitane'', Laboratoire Deglaude, 1933.
*1935: ''Maripepa'', Albin Michel, 1935.
;Theatre
*1908: ''Madame de Luzy'',
one-act play
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, after a short story by
Anatole France
(; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie França ...
*1931: ''La Conversion de Figaro'', 3 acts and one epilogue, 1931, in collaboration with Jean-Jacques Brousson
*1931: ''
Cantegril'', four-act opéra comique, 1931, music by
Jean Roger-Ducasse
*1974: ''Goya'', three-act opera, music by
Tony Aubin
Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer.
Career
Aubin was born in Paris. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon (counterpoint) ...
;Essays
*1909: ''Vers l’autre rive'', Messein
*1913: ''Essais d’art, de littérature et d’histoire : Le Nouveau Paris'', Nillson
*1913: ''Daumier'', Éditions Floury
*1926: ''Victor Hugo, le peintre, l’artiste'', Crès
*1926–1927–1928 ''Delacroix'', Floury, 3 volumes
*1928: ''La Vie glorieuse de Victor Hugo'',
Plon
*1930: ''Logis romantiques'', Horizon de France
*1930: ''Versailles'', Alpina
*1932: ''Souvenirs parlés de Briand'', Hachette
*1933: ''Mes Pyrénées'', Arthaud
*1933: ''Victor Hugo par ceux qui l’ont connu'',
Stock
*1933: ''La Place royale et Victor Hugo'', Fernand Didot
*1933: ''Delacroix et sa consolatrice'', Colin
*1935: ''Constantinople'', Alpina
*1935: ''Victor Hugo et les femmes'',
Flammarion
*1935: ''L’Art italien'', Floury, Catalogue de l’exposition du Petit Palais
*1936: ''Gros, ses amis, ses élèves'', Catalogue de l’exposition du Petit Palais
*1937: ''La peinture française au XX'', Floury, 1 volume
*1937: ''Greco'', Floury
*1937: ''Henri Matisse'', Floury
*1938: ''Hôtel-Dieu'', Laboratoire Cida
*1941: ''La Peinture française au XIX'', Floury, 3 volumes
*1945: ''Maquis de Gascogne'', collection « Documents d'aujourd'hui » issue IV, Geneva, Éditions du Milieu du Monde
*1951: ''Victor Hugo, cet inconnu'', Plon
*1952: ''Un amant de génie, Victor Hugo'', Plon
*1956: ''Matisse, ce vivant'',
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ...
*1957: ''La Neige qui brûle : Marie Noël'', Fayard
*1962: ''Mes Pyrénées de Gavarnie au Canigou'', Arthaud
*1963: ''Eugène Delacroix'', Édition du centenaire, Cercle d’Art
*1963: ''Delacroix et les femmes'', Fayard
*1965: ''Daumier et son monde'',
*1972: ''Hugo, roi de son siècle'', Fayard
;Magazines
Raymond Escholier collaborated with the following newspapers and magazines:
''
Mercure de France
The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
The gazette was published ...
'' ; ''
Gazette des Beaux-Arts
The ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' was a French art review, founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editorial secretary under the direction of George Wildenstein from 19 ...
'' ; ''Correspondant'' ; ''
Revue des deux Mondes'' ; ''Revue des Vivants'' ; ''
Le Figaro littéraire'' ; ''
L'Illustration
''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the ...
'' ; ''Nouvelles Littéraires'' ; ''Vient de paraître'' ; ''Tableaux de Paris'' ; ''
La Dépêche de Toulouse
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...
'' ; ''Arts'' ; ''Arts et Médecine'' ; ' ; ''Journal'' ; ''Petit Journal'' ; ''Temps'' ; ''
Le Monde Illustré
''Le Monde illustré'' (title translation: ''The Illustrated World'') was a leading illustrated news magazine in France which was published from 1857–1940 and again from 1945 to 1956. It was in many ways similar to its contemporary English ...
'' ; ''Revue du Languedoc'' ; ''Revue du Tarn'' ; ''Gai Saber'' ; ''
Revue de Paris
''Revue de Paris'' was a French literary magazine founded in 1829 by Louis-Désiré Véron. After two years Veron left the magazine to head the Paris Opera
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'' ; ''Revue Hommes et Mondes''.
;Direction of series
* 1924–1925: "Demain"
* 1936–1946: "Les Arts de la Bibliothèque Artistique", éditions Floury
;Works in common with Marie-Louise Escholier
*1919: ''Dansons la Trompeuse'', Grasset, (Prix Northcliffe).
*1921: ''Cantegril'', Grasset, (
Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works writte ...
– Vie Heureuse).
*1923: ''La Nuit'', Grasset
*1925: ''Quand on conspire'', Grasset
*1925: ''Le Chaudron de cuivre'', Éditions de la Cité
*1929: ''Gascogne'', Horizon de France
*1931: ''L’Herbe d’amour'', Albin Michel, (Grand prix de Littérature de l’Académie française).
*1936: ''Au pays de Cantegril'', Ferenczi
*1952: ''Le Secret de Montségur'', in collaboration with Maurice Gardelle, Éditions de la Colombe, 1952.
;Works by Marie-Louise Escholier
*1986: ''Les Saisons du vent, journal août 1914-mai 1915'', Carcassonne, Garae / Hésiode.
References
Sources
* Bernadette Contenson (under the direction of), Paris 1937, ''L’Art indépendant'',
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Catalog of the exhibition presented as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, from 1 June to 30 August 1937, Paris, 1987, 259 pages.
* André Ducasse, Jacques Meyer, Gabriel Perreux, ''Vie et mort des Français, 1914-1918'', Paris, Hachette, 1959, 547 pages; : La Guerre et les Écrivains.
* ''Exposition de l’Art italien de Cimabue à Tiepolo, mai-juin-juillet 1935'', Catalogue, Petit Palais, 1935, XLV + 526 pages and volume of 172 plates, prefaced by RaymondEscholier.
* Jean Hugo, ''Le Regard de la Mémoire'',
Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.
H ...
, 1983.
* Raymond Lécuyer, ''"Les maîtres de l’Art indépendant" au Petit Palais'', in ''Le Figaro'', Sateday 19 June 1937.
* Bernadette Truno-Vidal, ''Raymond et Marie-Louise Escholier, de l’Ariège à Paris, un destin étonnant'', Essai, Éditions Trabucaire, Canet-en-Roussillon, 2004, 221 pages.
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External links
Some photos of Raymond Escholier
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1882 births
Writers from Paris
1971 deaths
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Lycée Condorcet alumni
French art historians
French art critics
20th-century French journalists
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Prix Femina winners
Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur