Jean Schlumberger
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Jean Schlumberger was a French writer
and journalist
.
. Two of his brothers, Conrad and Marcel
, founded the Schlumberger
company.
Jean Schlumberger is best known as a writer of novels, plays and books of poetry. He was co-founder (with André Gide
and Gaston Gallimard
) of the Nouvelle Revue Française
, a French literary journal. He counted the famous writer Marguerite Yourcenar
among his friends. His non-fiction, especially his autobiography, Éveils, has been neglected by critics and literary historians.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
.
Biography
He was the son of Jean Schlumberger, the scion of a textile manufacturing family of German origin, and Marguerite de Witt, the granddaughter of François GuizotFrançois Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, a conservative liberal who opposed the attempt by King Charles X to usurp legislative power, and worked to sustain a constitutional...
. Two of his brothers, Conrad and Marcel
Schlumberger brothers
Conrad Schlumberger and Marcel Schlumberger were brothers from the Alsace region in France...
, founded the Schlumberger
Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
company.
Jean Schlumberger is best known as a writer of novels, plays and books of poetry. He was co-founder (with André Gide
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
and Gaston Gallimard
Gaston Gallimard
Gaston Gallimard was a French publisher.He founded La Nouvelle Revue Française in 1908, together with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger....
) of the Nouvelle Revue Française
Nouvelle Revue Française
La Nouvelle Revue Française is a literary magazine founded in 1909 by a group of intellectuals, including André Gide, Jacques Copeau, and Jean Schlumberger...
, a French literary journal. He counted the famous writer Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...
among his friends. His non-fiction, especially his autobiography, Éveils, has been neglected by critics and literary historians.
Works
- La mort de Sparte (The Death of Sparta). This play premièred at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris in 1921, and was not well received by the critics or the public.
- Césaire, play.
- Les fils Louverné, play.
- Le camarade infidèle (The Unfaithful Friend), novel, 1922.
- Plaisir à Corneille - Promenade Anthologique, 1936.
- Saint Saturnin (English title: The Seventh Age or Saint Saturnin), 1932.
- Le lion devenu vieux (The Lion Grown Old)