Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy (21 March 1937 – 28 April 2010) who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the
Académie française
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on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel ''Une ville immortelle''.
Biography
Rémy was born in
Angoulême
Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; ) is a small city in the southwestern French Departments of France, department of Charente, of which it is the Prefectures of France, prefecture.
Located on a plateau overlooking a meander of ...
,
Charente
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, where he received his primary and secondary education. His studies at
Lycée Condorcet
The Lycée Condorcet () is a secondary school in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. Founded in 1803, it is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inc ...
were steeped in Latin, Greek, and literature.
Beginning in 1955, Rémy studied in Paris at the Institute of Political Studies (
Institut d'études politiques), the Faculty of Law (Faculté de droit) of the
University of Paris
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(licence-economic science), and the
Sorbonne (sociology). As a
Fulbright program
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scholar, Rémy served as an assistant to the sociologist
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse ( ; ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and Political philosophy, political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at ...
at
Brandeis University
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in
Massachusetts
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from 1958-59 before returning to Paris to finish his studies at the
École nationale d'administration
The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution M ...
(ENA) in 1963 (class of "Saint-Just").
Bibliography
*1962 ''Et Gulliver mourut de sommeil''
*1963 ''Midi ou l’Attentat''
*1971 ''Le Sac du Palais d'Été'' (Gallimard)
*1972 ''Urbanisme'' (Gallimard)
*1973 ''Les Suicidés du printemps''
*1973 ''
Une mort sale'' (Gallimard)
*1973 ''La vie d'Adrian Putney, poète'' (Gallimard)
*1974 ''Ava'' (Gallimard)
*1974 ''Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de ce siècle'' (Gallimard)
*1974 ''La Mort de Floria Tosca'' (Gallimard)
*1975 ''Rêver la vie'' (Gallimard)
*1976 ''La Figure dans la pierre'' (Gallimard)
*1977 ''Les Enfants du Parc'' (Gallimard)
*1977 ''Si j’étais romancier''
*1978 ''Callas, une vie''
*1978 ''Les Nouvelles Aventures du chevalier de la Barre'' (Gallimard)
*1979 ''Cordelia, ou l'Angleterre'' (Gallimard)
*1979 ''Orient-Express I'' (Albin Michel)
*1979 ''Don Giovanni, Mozart, Losey'' (Albin Michel)
*1979 ''La Petite Comtesse''
*1980 ''Salue pour moi le Monde'' (Gallimard)
*1980 ''Pandora'' (Albin Michel)
*1981 ''Un voyage d'hiver'' (Gallimard)
*1982 ''Don Juan'' (Albin Michel)
*1983 ''Le Dernier Été'' (Flammarion)
*1983 ''Mata Hari''
*1984 ''Comédies italiennes'' (Flammarion)
*1984 ''Orient-Express II''
*1985 ''La vie d’un héros'' (Albin Michel)
*1985 ''Le Vicomte épinglé'' (Gallimard)
*1986 ''Une ville immortelle'' (Albin Michel),
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
*1987 ''Des châteaux en Allemagne'' (Flammarion)
*1988 ''Annette, ou l’éducation des filles'' (Albin Michel)
*1989 ''Bastille, rêver un Opéra.'' (Plon)
*1989 ''Toscanes'' (Albin Michel)
*1990 ''Chine'' (Albin Michel)
*1991 ''De la photographie considérée comme un assassinat'' (Albin Michel)
*1991 ''L’Autre Éducation sentimentale'' (Odile Jacob)
*1991 ''Pays d’âge, poèmes''
*1992 ''Algérie, bords de Seine'' (Albin Michel)
*1993 ''Qui trop embrasse'' (Albin Michel)
*1994 ''Un cimetière rouge en Nouvelle-Angleterre''
*1994 ''Londres, un ABC romanesque et sentimental'' (Jean-Claude Lattès)
*1995 ''Désir d’Europe''
*1997 ''Le Rose et le Blanc''
*1997 ''Retour d'Hélène'' (Gallimard)
*1997 ''Mes grands bordeaux''
*1998 ''Aria di Roma'' (Albin Michel)
*1999 ''La Nuit de Ferrare'' (Albin Michel)
*2000 ''Demi-siècle'' (Albin Michel)
*2001 ''État de grâce. Dire perdu. Trésors et secrets du Quai d'Orsay''
*2002 ''Berlioz'' (Albin Michel)
*2002 ''Les Belles du Moulin Rouge'' (Le Cherche-Midi)
*2004 ''Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Opéra'' (Plon)
*2004 ''Chambre noire à Pékin'' (Albin Michel)
References
External links
L'Académie française
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1937 births
2010 deaths
Writers from Angoulême
Members of the Académie Française
Sciences Po alumni
École nationale d'administration alumni
Prix Renaudot winners
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
Lycée Condorcet alumni
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite