Pierre Emmanuel

Portrait of Pierre Emmanuel by Willy Eisenschitz during World War 2. Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris), better known by his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.

Biography He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1968, president of PEN International between 1969 and 1971, president of French PEN Club between 1973 and 1976, and the first president of the French Institut national de l'audiovisuel in 1975.

His second wife, née Janine Loo (daughter of C. T. Loo), died on April 23, 2013, at the age of 92. She is buried, with Pierre Emmanuel, in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (57th division).

Académie française Pierre Emmanuel was elected to the Académie française (French Academy) on April 25, 1968, succeeding Marshal Juin. His official reception took place on June 5, 1969. After the election of Félicien Marceau, whose collaborationist attitude he denounced, he resigned from the Academy in 1975 and ceased to sit. His colleagues, however, followed tradition by refusing to take note of this decision and respectfully waiting until his death to replace him with the election of medicine Professor Jean Hamburger on April 18, 1985.

Works Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (for poetry) or "[year] in literature" article (for prose):

Poetry

1940: Elégies 1941: Tombeau d'Orphée 1943: "Les dents serrées", published in L’Honneur des poètes anthology, Éditions de Minuit 1943: La Colombe 1945: La liberté guide nos pas 1947: Poésie, raison ardente 1947: Qui est cet homme 1949: Car enfin je vous aime 1952: Babel 1956: Visage Nuage 1958: Versant de l'Âge 1961: Evangéliaire 1963: Le Goût de l'un 1963: La Nouvelle Naissance 1965: La Face Humaine 1970: Jacob 1973: Sophia 1976: La Vie Terrestre 1978: Tu Le Livre de l'Homme et de la Femme, a trilogy: 1978: Una ou la mort la vie 1979: Duel 1980: L’Autre 1981: L'Arbre et le Vent 1981: Le grand oeuvre, published a few weeks before his death 1984: Le grand œuvre. Une cosmogonie

Posthumously published 2001: Tombeau d'Orphée suivi de Hymnes orphiques, édition établie et préfacée par Anne-Sophie Andreu, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, coll. Amers, 2001. 2001: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2001, t. I, 1940-1963. 2003: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2003, t. II, 1970-1984. 2005: Lettres à Albert Béguin : correspondance 1941-1952 (édition établie et annotée par Aude Préta-de Beaufort). Lausanne, Paris : L'Âge d'homme, coll. « Cahiers Pierre Emmanuel » n° 2, 2005. .

Prose 1950: The Universal Singular: The Autobiography of Pierre Emmanuel (trans. Erik de Mauny), Grey Walls Press: London. 1967: Le monde est intérieur ("The World is Inside")

Interviews « Les dernières interrogations de Pierre Emmanuel » Emmanuel's final interview conducted by Damian Pettigrew, published in Le Monde, 7 October 1984