Marcelle Auclair
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| Born | 11 November 1899 Montluçon |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris |
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| Nationality | French |
| Period | 1919–1979 |
| Subject | religion, biography, fashion |
Marcelle Auclair (11 November 1899 – 6 June 1983) was a French novelist, biographer, journalist and poet. She published biographies of several important historical figures, translated major historical/literary documents into French from Spanish, and wrote a novel. She also published an autobiographical work, two books on popular psychology, a religious book for children, a book on artistic images of Jesus. Several of her books were translated into English. She was co-founder with Jean Prouvost of the fashion magazine Marie Claire.
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Biography
Marcelle Auclair was born 11 November 1899 in Montluçon, central France, and died in Paris on 6 June 1984.[1][2] She was the daughter of the architect Victor Auclair and his wife Eugénie Rateau. She spent part of her childhood and youth in Chile, where her father settled in 1906 to participate in the country's reconstruction after a devastating earthquake. She did her schooling in Santiago (Chile), where she also learned Spanish and English while reading French authors.[2]
Returning to France in 1923, she married the writer Jean Prévost (m. April 28, 1926), with whom she had three children (Michel, Françoise, and Alain).[2][3]:21 They divorced in 1938.[2]:318
Literary and journalistic contributions
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Jean Jaurès (1859–1914)
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St. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)
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St. Bernadette of Lourdes (1844–1879)
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Auclair published biographies of two Roman Catholic saints, Teresa of Avila (1950)[4] and Bernadette of Lourdes (1957).[5] She also published biographies of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whom she knew personally (1968),[6][7] and of the early 20th century pro-peace French socialist Jean Jaurès (1954).[8]
Auclair's first original publication[9] was Transparence, a book of original poetry in Spanish, published when she was 20 years old, and living in Santiago, Chile.[10] Another early publication, in French, was Auclair's novel, Toya, published in 1927.[11]
In 1937, Auclair and Jean Prouvost founded the fashion magazine Marie Claire.[2][12] Auclair wrote many articles for Marie Claire, extending over a period of several years. In A History of Private Life (1991),[13] writing about Auclair's time as a columnist for the magazine Marie Claire, Antoine Prost stated that
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Columnists such as Marcelle Auclair, Marcelle Ségal, and Ménie Grégoire, who answered readers’ letters, became confessors to the nation. New moral authorities, they dispensed intimate advice to millions every week.[13]:138
In the 1950s, Auclair published two popular books on how to lead a happy life, Le bonheur est en vous (1951) and La Pratique du bonheur (1956).[14]
In 1953, Auclair published a French-language children's book about the life of Jesus.[15] The book was republished in English translation in both the US[16] and the UK.[17]
Auclair's translation of the complete works of Teresa of Avila from Spanish to French was first published in 1964.[18]
At age 78, five years before her death, Auclair published an autobiographical work with her daughter, actress Françoise Prévost.[19]
In European Literary Heritage,[20] Auclair was described as "particularly attached to moral issues and the situation of women in the contemporary world [particulièrement attachée aux problèmes moraux et à la situation de la femme dans le monde contemporain]."[20]:279
Selected works
Translated into English
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French, untranslated into English
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- Spanish translation: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (411 pages). Includes excerpts from García Lorca's works.
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Children's books
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- English edition (US): Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (93 pages). Translation of La bonne nouvelle annoncee aux enfants
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References
- ↑ "AUCLAlR (Marcelle), née à Montluçon le 11 novembre 1899; fille du précédent.... Marcelle Auclair a publié des biographies: La Vie de Sainte Thérèse d'Avila (1950), La Vie de Jean Jaurès (1954), ... Décédée à Paris le 6 juin 1983" (p. 265). In: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (285 pages).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Avec Jean Prouvost, Marcelle Auclair fonda « Marie-Claire » magazine féminin inspiré des magazines américains.... Décédée à Paris le 6 juin 1983, elle est inhumée dans l'Essonne auprès de son père" (p. 318). In: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (351 pages).
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- ↑ Earlier, in 1917, she is credited with having presented a 16-page paper, Heredia: Conferencia leída en la Biblioteca Nacional OCLC 55386568 (16 pages).
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- ↑ Toya, OCLC 7646823
- ↑ "Lancé por Jean Prouvost en 1937, le principal acteur de ce renouvellement porte le (prè)nom Marie Claire. Placèe sous la direction de Marcelle Auclair et de Pierre Bost, cette publication qui recourt volontiers au ton de la confidence, s’adresse à l’ensemble des femmes et non plu à la seule bourgeoisie." (p. 65). In: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (403 pages).
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Antoine Prost (1991). "Public and Private Spheres in France". In: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. Translation of Histoire de la privée. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987.
- ↑ Le bonheur est en vous (1951) and La Pratique du bonheur (1956).
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (93 pages). Translation of La bonne nouvelle annoncee aux enfants
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- ↑ Teresa of Avila, Oeuvres complètes (Marcelle Auclair, trans.). First edition, in one volume (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1964): Œuvres complètes OCLC 490121140 (1177 pages). Fifth edition in two volumes (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2007): Oeuvres complètes, vol. I, ISBN 978-2-220-05871-9, OCLC 470554927 (pp. 605 pages); vol. II, ISBN 978-2-220-05890-0, OCLC 470797319 (pp. 610-1177).
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (429 pages)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Marcelle (Auclair)" (pp. 279-280) in: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (600 pages) (vol 13 of Patrimoine littéraire européen: anthologie en langue française, published 1992-2000, ISSN 0779-4673, OCLC 28010160)
