Henri Béraud (; 21 September 1885 in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

– 24 October 1958 in Saint-Clément-des-Baleines, Ré Island), also known as Tristan Audebert, was a French novelist and journalist. He was sentenced to death in 1945, which was later commuted to life imprisonment, for

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with Germany.

Life

Henri Béraud was the son of a baker. In 1903 he began his work in journalism. He joined the satirical weekly '' Le Canard enchaîné'' in February 1917, recommended by Paul Vaillant-Couturier, and Roland Dorgeles. He renewed his old friendship with Albert Londres. He later became known as one of France's best-selling novelists and reporters, and won the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

in 1922. He was virulently Anglophobic and to a lesser extent antisemitic. These factors led him to support

Vichy France Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ...

. He did this by contributing pieces to the fascist weekly paper '' Gringoire'', indicating his hatred of British forces and criticism of the Free French. Typical of Vichy anti-British propaganda was the widely distributed pamphlet published in August 1940 and written by self-proclaimed "professional Anglophobe" Henri Béraud entitled, ("Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?"); the question in the title was merely rhetorical. Additionally, Vichy mixed Anglophobia with racism and

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to portray the British as a racially degenerate "mixed race" working for Jewish capitalists, in contrast to the "racially pure" peoples on the continent of Europe who were building a "New Order". His aid of the

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caused him to be sentenced to death in 1945, but several writers, including

François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (; ; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...

intervened on his behalf. The sentence was commuted by

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...

to life imprisonment. By 1950, he was freed for health reasons. He died eight years later.

Works

* ''L'École moderne de peinture lyonnaise'' (1912) * ''Le Vitriol de Lune'' (1921, prix Goncourt 1922) * ''Le Martyre de l'obèse'', (prix Goncourt 1922) * ''Lazarus'', Albin Michel, 1924 (re-published in 2006 by Hippocampus Press together with ''An Exchange of Souls'' by Barry Pain, ed. S. T. Joshi) *''Ce que j'ai vu à Moscou'', Les Éditions de France 1925 *''Le Bois du templier pendu'', Les Éditions de France, 1926 *''Ce que j'ai vu à Berlin'', Les Éditions de France, 1926 *''La Gerbe d'or'', Les Éditions de France, (1928) *''Route Cavalière de la Solitude, Lapina,'' (1928) *''Ce que j'ai vu à Rome'', Les Éditions de France, 1929 *''Qu’as-tu fait de ta jeunesse?'' (1941) *''Les Lurons de Sabolas'' (1932) *''Ciel de suie'' (1933) *''Faut-il réduire l'Angleterre en esclavage'' (1935) *''Les raisons d'un silence'', Inter-France, 1944 *''Les derniers beaux jours'', Plon, 1953 *''Portraits de contemporains'' *''Retour sentimental vers Alphonse Daudet'', 2001 *''Écrits dans Gringoire (1928–1937)'', 2003 *''Au Capucin Gourmand'' *''Le Flâneur salarié'' *'' "Rendez-vous européens'', Les Éditions de France, 1928

References

External links

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