Tancrède Vallerey (9 August 1892 – 10 November 1974) was a French writer of

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and speculative fiction.

Life

Vallerey was born in Rosendaël, now incorporated into

Dunkirk Dunkirk ( ; ; ; Picard language, Picard: ''Dunkèke''; ; or ) is a major port city in the Departments of France, department of Nord (French department), Nord in northern France. It lies from the Belgium, Belgian border. It has the third-larg ...

, in the Nord department of France, the son of Jules Vallerey (1853–1929), who after joining the

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became a teacher of

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, and published a number of technical and scientific works, and his wife Marie Madeleine Amélie (née Duhan) (1867 – 1954). In 1914 he obtained the ''diplôme en droit'' (first level legal qualification) at Paris.BnF Catalogue général: Notice de personne - Vallerey, Tancrède (1892-1974)
/ref> No record is known of any military service in

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. On 12 July 1918 at La Penne-sur-Huveaune (

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( ; , ; ; "the Mouths of the Rhône") is a Departments of France, department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var (department), Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the sout ...

) he married his first cousin Juliette Marie Chandon (21 November 1889 – 18 February 1940), sister of the

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Édmée Chandon; under the pen names Gisèle Vallerey, Georges Chandon, G. Chandon and Noël Guy she not only collaborated with her husband but also in her own right was a prolific author of original works of fiction, adaptations and translations and of song lyrics.BnF Catalogue général: Notice de personne - Vallerey, Gisèle (1889-1940)
/ref> After his marriage Vallery moved to

Grasse Grasse (; Provençal dialect, Provençal in classical norm or in Mistralian norm ; traditional ) is the only Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Re ...

near

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, where he remained for the rest of his life and where he died on 10 November 1974.

Works

Novels

* ''Celui qui viendra'' (1929) * ''L'Ile au sable vert'' (1930) - winner of the 1930 Prix Jules-Verne * ''L'avion fantastique'' (1936) * ''Un mois sous les mers'' (1937) * ''Le Manoir de Montsonore'' (1951)

Translations

From the

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; published by Editions Nathan, collection ''Aventures et voyages'': * ''Radiopolis'': Otfrid von Hanstein (1927) * ''John Workmann ou Les cent millions du petit vendeur de journaux'': Hans Dominik, adapted with Gisèle Vallerey (1928) * ''Jusqu'à la Lune en fusée aérienne'': Otfrid von Hanstein (1929) * ''Dix mille lieues dans les airs'': Otfrid von Hanstein, adapted with Gisèle Vallerey (1931) * ''Les Héroïnes du Pacifique ou les robinsonnes du XXe siècle'': Friedrich Wilhelm Mader (1931)

References

1892 births 1974 deaths People from Dunkirk Writers from Nord (French department) 20th-century French novelists French male novelists 20th-century French male writers {{France-novelist-19thC-stub