Jacques Boulenger
Jack Amand Romain Boulenger (27 September 1879 – 22 November 1944), better known as Jacques Boulenger, was a French writer, literary critic, literary historian and journalist.
Biography
Jacques Boulenger was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. He studied at the National School of Charters (class of 1900), and was also the co-founder of the Revue du Seizième Siècle. Boulenger was one of the collaborators of the Revue Critique des Idées et des Livres established by Jean Rivain and Eugène Marsan.
A specialist in medieval and Renaissance literature, he wrote several modernized adaptations of the Round Table romances (Lancelot, the legend of King Arthur) and prepared the complete edition of Rabelais' works in the Pleiades Library (Gallimard). In 1911, he also wrote a historical synthesis of the Grand Siècle.
As literary critic, Boulenger was the author of various studies on the poet Émile Henriot (1913), on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Nostradamus, Gérard de Nerval, Paul-Jean Toulet as well as on dandyism. He gathered his chronicles of L'Opinion and L'Écho de Paris in the collection Mais l'art est difficile (1921–1922).
Boulenger was also a novelist, he wrote among others Le Miroir à deux faces in 1928, Crime à Charonne in 1937, Adam et Ève in 1938, and the short story collection Les Soirs de l'archipel, Contes de ma cuisinière in 1935.
Having shown interest for nationalist ideas as early as 1926, he joined the French Popular Party at its creation in 1936.[1] A contributor to the newspaper Gringoire, during the German Occupation of France he contributed to several collaborationist newspapers: Le Matin, Les Nouveaux Temps, Aujourd'hui, L'Émancipation Nationale and the Révolution Nationale. He was also the author of numerous political pamphlets such as Accusés, levez-vous! in 1941 and Le Sang français in 1943.[2].
He was the brother of the novelist Marcel Boulenger.
Jacques Boulenger died on November 22, 1944 at 8 avenue Montaigne, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. He was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery (23rd division).
Works
- Nostradamus et ses prophéties (1943)
- Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (1948)
- Les Amours de Lancelot du Lac (1958)
- Les Romans de la Table ronde (1961)
- Merlin l'enchanteur (1965)
- La Légende du roi Arthur (1993; 4 volumes)
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- 1879 births
- 1944 deaths
- 20th-century French journalists
- 20th-century French novelists
- 20th-century French short story writers
- Burials at Montmartre Cemetery
- French editors
- French literary critics
- French literary historians
- French Popular Party politicians
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