Robert Julien Courtine (16 May 1910 – 14 April 1998) was a French

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who also wrote under the pen names "La Reynière" and "Savarin".

Background

Courtine was a member of the far-right

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during the 1930s, and was close to the anti-semitic journalist Henry Coston. During the

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, he was an active participant in the collaborationist newspapers '' La France au travail'' and '' L'Appel''. He left Paris in August 1944 for the

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. He was arrested in 1946 and sentenced to ten years at hard labor. The sentence was commuted in 1948, on condition that he not speak on the radio.« quitte Paris le 14 août 1944, Baden-Baden puis Sigmaringen, fuit vers l'Italie, arrêté le 9 janvier 1946 à Mérano, condamné le 12 décembre 1946 à 10 ans de travaux forcés, peine réduite en 1948 par le Président de la République, libéré mais interdit de toute responsabilité sur les ondes française par une commission d'épuration �
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/ref> In 1952, Courtine joined ''

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'' where, using the pen name "La Reynière" (inspired by

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), he wrote the gastronomy column until 1993. Courtine has written many books on gastronomy.

Publications

* ''Drôle de macchabée'', préface de Paul Reboux, A. Fleury, 1952 * ''L'assassin est à votre table'', Éditions de la Pensée moderne, 1956 ; réédition, avec une préface d'

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, la Table ronde, 1969 * ''Un gourmand à Paris'', B. Grasset, 1959 * ''Un nouveau savoir manger'', B. Grasset, 1960 * ''Tous les cocktails'' (signé Savarin), Gérard et Cie,1960 * ''Les Dimanches de la cuisine'', la Table ronde, 1962 * ''La Cuisine du monde entier'' (signé Savarin), Gérard et Cie, 1963 * ''450 recettes originales à base de fruits'', Éditions de la Pensée moderne, 1963 * ''La Vraie cuisine française'' (signé Savarin), Gérard et Cie, 1963 * ''Célébration de l'asperge'', R. Morel, 1965 * ''Toutes les boissons et les recettes au vin'', Larousse, 1968 * ''La Gastronomie'', Presses universitaires de France, 1970 * ''Le Guide de la cuisine française et internationale'', Elvesier-Séquoia, 1972 * ''Dictionnaire des fromages'', Larousse, 1972 * ''Le Cahier de recettes de madame Maigret'' (présenté par La Reynière), préface de

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, Robert Laffont, 1974 * ''Balzac à table'', Robert Laffont, 1976 * ''La Cuisine française : classique et nouvelle'' (signé La Reynière), dessins de Claudine Volckerick, Marabout, 1977 * ''Mon bouquet de recettes'', Marabout, 1977 * ''Zola à table'', Robert Laffont, 1978 * ''Guide de la France gourmande'', P. Bordas, 1980 * ''Toute la cuisine française et étrangère'', Publimonde, 1982 * ''Dictionnaire de cuisine et de gastronomie'' (sous la dir. de R. J. Courtine), Larousse, 1986 * ''Les Fromages'', Larousse, 1987 * ''Le Guide de la cuisine des terroirs'' (cinq volumes), La Manufacture, 1992

Notes

Bibliography

Pierre-André Taguieff Pierre-André Taguieff (born 4 August 1946) is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in an Institut d'Etudes Politique ...

, ''L'antisémitisme de plume 1940-1944'', Berg éditeurs, 1999 * Henry Coston, ''Dictionnaire de la politique française'', Publications Henry Coston, 2000

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Courtine, Robert J. 1910 births 1998 deaths Food writers French collaborators with Nazi Germany People affiliated with Action Française French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers