Éric Deschodt (born 30 March 1937) is a French journalist, writer and translator. He wrote police novels written in collaboration under the pseudonym Bernard-Paul Lallier.

Biography

Éric Deschodt was Anne-Marie Deschodt's brother.« Anne-Marie du TEMPLE de ROUGEMONT : Décès »
carnet.midilibre.fr. After graduating from high school and a bachelor's degree in philosophy, he became a journalist for

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, then worked in various fields: agricultural machinery salesman, painting representative, art publisher, fish farmer in

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. He eventually returned to journalism and worked successively for several publications, including ''

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'', '' Valeurs actuelles'' and ''

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''. In collaboration with Christian Charrière, and under the pseudonym Bernard-Paul Lallier, he published ''Le Saut de l'ange'' (1968), a detective novel that won that year's

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and was adapted under the eponymous title in cinema by

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in 1971. This novel was followed by the sequel ''L'Ange du paradis'', published in 1969. In 1977, Deschodt used the same pseudonym to write the thriller ''Terreur à Nantes'' in collaboration with Philippe Heduy. Alone, Éric Deschodt published essays on French aviation and cigar making under his patronym, 10 or so novels, and biographies of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

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. He also wrote translations, including ''Ceux de Falesa'' by

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's detective novels.

Work

Novels

*1977: ''Les Demoiselles sauvages'', Paris,

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*1979: ''Le Général des galères'', JC Lattès *1981: ''Les Îles captives'', JC Lattès *1982: ''La Gloire au Liban'', JC Lattès *1984: ''Le roi a fait battre tambour'', JC Lattès *1985: ''Eugénie, les larmes aux yeux'', JC Lattès *1988: ''Le Royaume d'Arles'', JC Lattès *2000: ''Le Seul Amant'', Paris,

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*2003: ''Le Scorpion d'or'', Paris,

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*2004: ''Marguerite et les Enragés : meurtre à Florence'', Seuil, (in collaboration with Jean-Claude Lattès) *2011: ''Iphigénie Vanderbilt'', Paris,

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*2013: ''Les Amants du grand monde'', Paris, Éditions de Fallois

Detective novels signed Bernard-Paul Lallier

*1984: ''Le Saut de l'ange'', Paris,

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*1969: ''L'Ange du paradis'', Fayard *1977: ''Terreur à Nantes'', Paris, Librairie des Champs-Élysées, n°1489

Essays

*1977: ''La France envolée : l'aviation et la décadence 1906–1976'', Paris, Société de production littéraire *1993: ''Histoire du Mont-de-Piété'', Paris, Le Cherche-Midi *1996: ''L'ABCdaire du cigare'', Paris, Flammarion, "Art de vivre" *1996: ''Le Cigare'', Paris, Éditions du Regard *1996: ''D'un musée l'autre en Picardie'', Éditions du Regard *2002: ''So British: Old England, Paris'', Éditions du Regard *2005: ''Château Lagrézette'', Éditions du Regard, (in collaboration with Alain-Dominique Perrin) *2009: ''Lafite Rothschild'', Éditions du Regard

Biographies

*1980: ''Saint-Exupéry'', Jean-Claude Lattès *1989: ''Mirbeau, roman d'une terre de France'', Jean-Claude Lattès *1991: ''Gide : le « contemporain capital »'', Paris, Perrin *1994: ''L'Orgueil du guerrier : Claude Barrès'', Perrin *1995: ''Agrippa d'Aubigné : le guerrier inspiré'', Paris, Robert Laffont *2002: ''Gustave Eiffel : un illustre inconnu'', Paris, Pygmalion *2006: ''Attila'', Paris, Gallimard, Folio. Biographies n°13 *2014: ''Pour Clemenceau'', Paris, Éditions de Fallois

Prizes

* 1968:

for ''Le Saut de l'ange'', novel signed under the pseudonym Bernard-Paul Lallier * 1981
Prix Roland de Jouvenel
for ''Saint-Exupéry'' * 1984: Prix Roland de Jouvenel for ''Le roi a fait battre tambour'' * 1986:

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for ''Eugénie les larmes aux yeux'' * 1996
Prix de la biuographie
for ''Agrippa d'Aubigné, le guerrier inspiré''

Cinematographic adaptation

* 1971: ', French film by

, with

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Sources

* and , ''Le Vrai Visage du Masque'', Volume 1, Paris,

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, 1984, (Bernard-Paul Lallier).

References

External links

Éric Deschodt
on the site of the Académie française
''Penjab'', Éric Deschodt
on La Cause Littéraire
Biographie et bibliographie sur Babelio

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