Gaston Bonheur

Gaston Bonheur, pseudonym for Gaston Tesseyre (27 November 1913 – 4 September 1980) was a French journalist and writer. He is known for writing the screenplay for the 1955 film version of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Biography Gaston Tesseyre's parents were teachers. His father was killed at the very beginning of the First World War and when Gaston was an infant. The future writer learned the Occitan language and the art of winemaking from his grandmother Bonhoure, from whom he also took his pen name.

First a poet, close to the surrealists, he founded the magazine "Choc". He then moved on to journalism. He was hired by :fr:Pierre Lazareff as chief reporter for the daily Paris-Soir. In 1947 he was editor-in-chief at the weekly Paris Match and in 1948, editor-in-chief of the daily Paris-Presse. For several years he was the director of the press empire of Jean Prouvost which included the publications Télé 7 Jours, Le Figaro, Paris Match, and France-Soir.

He also wrote songs. His book "Qui a cassé le vase de Soissons?", which enjoyed wide popular acclaim in the 1960's, is a half-sarcastic, half-nostalgic recollection of his mother as a schoolteacher.

Bonheur is buried in Floure Cemetery (Aude).

Works

Chemin privé (poems), 1934: La Mauvaise fréquentation, Éditions Gallimard 1937: Les Garçons 1940: La Cavalcade héroïque, Fayard 1945: Le Glaive nu, éd. Les Trois Collines 1953: Tournebelle 1958: Charles de Gaulle, Gallimard 1963: Qui a cassé le vase de Soissons ?, Robert Laffont 1965: La République nous appelle, Robert Laffont 1965: Rue des Rosiers (song performed by Régine), Pathé 1970: Qui a cassé le pot au lait ? , Robert Laffont 1970: Si le Midi avait voulu, Robert Laffont 1974: Notre patrie gauloise, Robert Laffont 1976: La Croix de ma mère, Éditions Julliard 1977: Henri Quatre 1978: Le Soleil oblique, éd. Julliard 1980: L'Ardoise et la craie, Éditions de la Table ronde 1980: Paris bonheur, éd. Richer