Francis Lacassin (; 18 November 1931 – 12 August 2008)Décès de l'éditeur Francis Lacassin
''lefigaro.fr'' d'après AFP, 14 août 2008 was a French journalist, editor, writer, screenplay writer and essayist.

Biography

Lacassin started to work for the

Jean-Jacques Pauvert Jean-Jacques Pauvert (8 April 1926 – 27 September 2014) was a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the '' Story of O'' (1954) and the first edition of Kenneth ...

's magazine '' Bizarre'' in 1964. He was writing about fantastic and detective literature in '' Magazine Littéraire'', worked for '' L'Express'' and for '' Le Point''. He also was responsible of the Christian Bourgois collection

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. Specialist of pop culture, he was member of a group which help

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s to be recognize and he coined the term "9th art". He wrote prefaces for reference editions of many authors and series for the

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. He was responsible of the Bouquins collection since 1982. He worked on authors such as:

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, H. P. Lovecraft, and

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. That is why he was nicknamed "the man of thousand prefaces".

Partial bibliography

Books

* ''La

Société des Cinéromans The Société des Cinéromans was a French film production company of the silent movie era. History In 1919, Gaston Leroux founded the Société des Cinéromans in Nice with René Navarre and Arthur Bernède to publish novels and turn them into ...

'' (1918–1930) * ''

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ou le Chevalier crispé'' (Union générale d'éditions, 1971) * ''Pour un neuvième art : la bande dessinée'' (Slatkine, 1971) * ''Sous le masque de

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'' (Encrage, 1993) * ''Pour une contre-histoire du cinéma'' (Union générale d'éditions, 1994) * '' Alfred Machin : de la jungle à l'écran'' (Dreamland, 2001) * Collab. with Patrice Gauthier, ''Louis Feuillade : Maître du cinéma populaire'', coll. " Découvertes Gallimard" (nº 486), (Gallimard, 2006, ) * ''Sur les chemins qui marchent'' (mémoires de l'auteur) (Éd. du Rocher, 2006, )

Articles

* «Louis Feuillade» in ''Anthologie du Cinéma'', vol. 2 (Éditions de l'Avant-Scène, 1967) * Critique of the book "

Family Without a Name ''Family Without a Name'' (french: Famille-sans-nom) is an 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and dem ...

" by F. Lacassin (work by Jules Verne) * Preface of the book " Les Naufragés du « Jonathan »" by F. Lacassin, work by Jules Verne, adapted by his son,

Michel Verne Michel Jean Pierre Verne (August 3, 1861 – March 5, 1925) was a writer, editor, and the son of Jules Verne. Michel was born in Paris, France. Because of his wayward behaviour, he was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony for six month ...

References

External links

Un portrait de Francis Lacassin
on the site www.bibliotrutt.lu {{DEFAULTSORT:Lacassin, Francais French literary critics 1931 births 2008 deaths French male non-fiction writers Comics critics 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers