Henri Pourrat
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Henry Pourrat was a French writer and anthropologist who collected the oral literature of the Auvergne.
in Paris, Henri Pourras was destined to agriculture and was admitted in 1905 at the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
. However, infected by tuberculosis, he sought a more healthy climate, the valley of the Dore
and Livradois and Forez
mountains, that he walked over countless hikes over the next fifty years. He lived in a house at Vernet-la-Varenne
.
The enforced leisure, devoted to reading and walking, developed in him the need to write. The work of Henry Pourras would be abundant (hundreds of books) and varied (poems, novels, biographies, collections of stories).
From 1916, her brother Paul and himself were friends with the young Alexander Vialatte (1901–1971). He settled in the small sub-prefecture in 1948.
Already in 1926, The University of Dublin
has conferred the title of docteur Honoris Causa.
The critical distinction attended the monumental The Valor, pranks and adventures of Jasper Mountain (4 volumes, 1921–1931 and final edition in one volume by Albin Michel), awarded the Prize Figaro (1921, Volume 1) and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française
(1931 overall). The Prix Goncourt
was also awarded to him in 1941 for Martian Wind. He obtained the Muteau Prize of the French Academy for his historical book, Man with a spade.
The last decade of his life was dedicated to what he regarded as his masterpiece, The Treasure of the tales.
On October 14, 1940, at the invitation of Pourras return to roots, Marshal Philippe Pétain
, head of the Vichy France
, came "to the meeting of the working people" in Ambert, near Vichy, visited the paper mill, the oldest Livradois, and passed control of a ream of paper watermarked with his emblem. On this occasion Henry Pourras publishesd "The French Peasant". and "The French leader", articles dedicated to Marshal Petain and his policy of Back to the Earth. Subsequently, Henry Pourrat departed from the National Revolution, and he says in his letters, the politicians are taken by events.
Founder of the association La Feuille Blanche, Pourras created in the Moulin Richard de Bas, a museum to Paper, and tried to set a graphic arts village. The museum was inaugurated July 3, 1943 in the presence of Georges Henri Riviere
, Director of the Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires
.
The Association of Friends of Henry Pourras defended his work. In 1979, to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of the writer, FR3 Auvergne Radio conducted a series of 10 programs for the series "history to speak", by Christian Lassalas. Excerpts of these broadcasts are found in the audio cassette "Recollections of Henry Pourras" published by "The Friends of Henry Pourras." One can hear the testimony of Lucien Gachon, Jean Banière, Claude Pourrat, Annette Pourrat, Roger Gardes, Michel Versepuy, and the voice of Henry Pourrat.
His work is highly diverse: early poems, novels, biographies, historical essays, philosophical or religious stories. Far from the narrow context of regionalism, Auvergne folk tales for him ware the best place to discover and understand the nature and spirit, of the farmer and thereby "attain the universal." The twelve or thirteen years of his life are entirely devoted to the monumental treasury of tales, to which he attached great importance.
Many of his works were illustrated by his friend François Angeli (13 February 1890 +30 May 1974) brother of Jean Angeli, (Jean Olagne) (1886 1915), childhood friend of Henry Pourras.
Biography
After the College d'Ambert and the Lycee Henri IVLycée Henri IV
The Lycée Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with Louis-le-Grand it is widely regarded as one of the most demanding sixth-form colleges in France....
in Paris, Henri Pourras was destined to agriculture and was admitted in 1905 at the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon
The Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon was a French grande école. It was created in 1971 by merging the Institut national agronomique and the École nationale supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon, thus having a history that goes back to 1826.INA P-G disappeared as an administrative entity on...
. However, infected by tuberculosis, he sought a more healthy climate, the valley of the Dore
Dore
Dore is a village in South Yorkshire, England. The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf, and until 1934 was part of Derbyshire, but it is now a suburb of Sheffield. It is served by Dore and Totley railway station on the Hope Valley Line...
and Livradois and Forez
Forez
Forez is a former province of France, corresponding approximately to the central part of the modern Loire département and a part of the Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme départements....
mountains, that he walked over countless hikes over the next fifty years. He lived in a house at Vernet-la-Varenne
Vernet-la-Varenne
Vernet-la-Varenne is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.-References:*...
.
The enforced leisure, devoted to reading and walking, developed in him the need to write. The work of Henry Pourras would be abundant (hundreds of books) and varied (poems, novels, biographies, collections of stories).
From 1916, her brother Paul and himself were friends with the young Alexander Vialatte (1901–1971). He settled in the small sub-prefecture in 1948.
Already in 1926, The University of Dublin
University of Dublin
The University of Dublin , corporately designated the Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin , located in Dublin, Ireland, was effectively founded when in 1592 Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter for Trinity College, Dublin, as "the mother of a university" – this date making it...
has conferred the title of docteur Honoris Causa.
The critical distinction attended the monumental The Valor, pranks and adventures of Jasper Mountain (4 volumes, 1921–1931 and final edition in one volume by Albin Michel), awarded the Prize Figaro (1921, Volume 1) and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
(1931 overall). The Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
was also awarded to him in 1941 for Martian Wind. He obtained the Muteau Prize of the French Academy for his historical book, Man with a spade.
The last decade of his life was dedicated to what he regarded as his masterpiece, The Treasure of the tales.
Vichy
Between the two world wars, he contributed to the Croix-de-feu, Le Flambeau., newspapers.On October 14, 1940, at the invitation of Pourras return to roots, Marshal Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
, head of the Vichy France
Vichy France
Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
, came "to the meeting of the working people" in Ambert, near Vichy, visited the paper mill, the oldest Livradois, and passed control of a ream of paper watermarked with his emblem. On this occasion Henry Pourras publishesd "The French Peasant". and "The French leader", articles dedicated to Marshal Petain and his policy of Back to the Earth. Subsequently, Henry Pourrat departed from the National Revolution, and he says in his letters, the politicians are taken by events.
Founder of the association La Feuille Blanche, Pourras created in the Moulin Richard de Bas, a museum to Paper, and tried to set a graphic arts village. The museum was inaugurated July 3, 1943 in the presence of Georges Henri Riviere
Georges Henri Rivière
Georges-Henri Rivière was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices.Rivière studied music until 1925, when he began museum studies at the Ecole du Louvre, from which he graduated in 1928. During the following years, he cared for the D...
, Director of the Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires
Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires
The Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires was a museum of the popular arts and traditions of France. It was located at 6, avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris, France, but is now permanently closed to the public...
.
The Association of Friends of Henry Pourras defended his work. In 1979, to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of the writer, FR3 Auvergne Radio conducted a series of 10 programs for the series "history to speak", by Christian Lassalas. Excerpts of these broadcasts are found in the audio cassette "Recollections of Henry Pourras" published by "The Friends of Henry Pourras." One can hear the testimony of Lucien Gachon, Jean Banière, Claude Pourrat, Annette Pourrat, Roger Gardes, Michel Versepuy, and the voice of Henry Pourrat.
His work is highly diverse: early poems, novels, biographies, historical essays, philosophical or religious stories. Far from the narrow context of regionalism, Auvergne folk tales for him ware the best place to discover and understand the nature and spirit, of the farmer and thereby "attain the universal." The twelve or thirteen years of his life are entirely devoted to the monumental treasury of tales, to which he attached great importance.
Many of his works were illustrated by his friend François Angeli (13 February 1890 +30 May 1974) brother of Jean Angeli, (Jean Olagne) (1886 1915), childhood friend of Henry Pourras.
Works
- Sur la colline ronde, avec Jean l'Olagne, roman, Imprimerie Moderne, 1912, réédition: La Colline Ronde, Gallimard, 1927.
- Les Montagnards, poème, Payot, 1919. Prix Archon-Desperouses.
- Liberté, poème, Societé Littéraire de France, 1921.
- Les vaillances, farces et aventures de Gaspard des montagnes, Albin Michel, 1922–1931, 4 volumes
- Les jardins sauvages, essai, Gallimard, 1923.
- La combe délaissée, Pigeonnier, 1925.
- Le mauvais garçon, roman, Gallimard, 1925.
- Les Devins, Ducros et Colas, 1926.
- La Fontaine au Bois Dormant, Les Cahiers de Paris, 1926.
- Dans l'herbe des trois vallées, essai, Bloud et Gay, 1927; Albin Michel, 1943.
- Ceux d'Auvergne, Horizons de France collection types et coutumes, 1928, Abin Michel, 1939.
- La ligne verte, Gallimard, 1929.
- La veillée de Novembre, La Tortue, 1929; Ed. de la Cigale, 1937.
- Le meneur de loups, Pigeonnier, 1930.
- Le bosquet pastoral, Gallimard, 1931.
- La bataille du Puy-de-Dôme, Denoël et Steele, 1931.
- L'Auvergne. Les Limagnes, coll. Les beaux Pays, Arthaud, 1932.
- Les sorciers du canton, Gallimard, 1933.
- Monts et merveilles, roman, Albin Michel, 1934.
- Au fort de l'Auvergne, coll. Les beaux Pays, Arthaud, 1935.
- La Cité perdue, SPES, 1935.
- Contes de la bûcheronne, Mame, 1936.
- Toucher terre, La Cigale, 1936.
- Le Secret des Compagnons, Gallimard, 1937
- La Porte du verger, La Cigale, 1938.
- Visages de l'Auvergne, avec Lucien Gachon, André Bossuat, Henri CHarlier et Alexandre Vialatte, Horizons de France, 1938.
- Georges ou les journées d'Avril, roman, Gallimard, 1940.
- L'Homme à la bêche (Histoire du Paysan), Flammarion, 1940
- Le Paysan français, Sorlot, 1940.
- Vent de mars, Gallimard, 1941. Prix Goncourt.
- Le Chef français, Laffont, 1942.
- Sully et sa grande passion, Flammarion, 1942.
- Le Blé de Noël, Le Sagittaire, 1943.
- La Maison-Dieu, L'Épervier, 1943; Albin Michel, 1944.
- Le Temps qu'il fait, Colbert, 1944.
- Sous le Pommier (Les Proverbes de la Terre ou le Commencement de la Sagesse), Albin michel, 1945.
- Les Saints Patrons, Imagerie Française, 1945.
- La Bienheureuse Passion, Albin Michel, 1946.
- Histoire fidèle de la bête de Gévaudan, Éditions de l'épervier, 1946, broché, 23*18 cm, bois gravés de Ph. Zeppelin, 125 p.
- Les Légendes d'Auvergne, 1947.
- Le chemin des chèvres, 1947.
- Le Trésor des contes Tome I, Gallimard, 1948.
- L'école buissonnière, La Nouvelle Édition, 1949.
- Le Loup-garou et sa bande, Attinger, 1949.
- Le Trésor des contes Tome II, Gallimard, 1949.
- Trois contes de la Colère, Elzévir, 1949.
- Le Sage et son Démon, Albin Michel, 1950.
- Le chasseur de la nuit, roman, Albin Michel, 1951.
- L'homme à la peau de loup, Attinger, 1951.
- Les Saints de France, Boivin, 1951.
- Le Trésor des contes Tome III, Gallimard, 1951.
- La belle Mignonne, roman, Mame, 1951.
- Conté sous l'Alisier, Fanlac, 1951.
- L'Auvergne, dans: Provinces de France, Odé, 1951.
- Batailles et brigandages, 1952.
- Histoire des gens dans les montagnes du Centre, Albin Michel, 1959.
- En Auvergne (rééd. en un volume de I: Les Limagnes; II Au fort de l'Auvergne), Arthaud, 1966.
- Les Amours, roman.
- Les Jours: leurs travaux et leurs sorts. Bois en couleur de Philippe Keppelin. Lettrines en couleur de Crous Vidal.
- Les contes du Pré Carré.
- Les Contes du fraisier sauvage.
- Europe et Paradis.
- L'exorciste.
- L'Aventure de Roquefort.
- Châteaux en Auvergne.
- Almanach des saisons.
- L'Épopée de Guillaume Douarre.
- Ma maison manque de prières.
- Correspondance avec Alexandre Vialatte, Presses de l'Université de Clermont Ferrand,