Émile Henriot was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic.

Life

A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot

Henriot (caricaturist)

Henri Maigrot was a French writer, artist and caricaturist. He was known under the pen name of Henriot or Pit...

, he fought in the First World War. He first wrote as a journalist for Temps

Le Temps

Founded in 1998, Le Temps is a Swiss newspaper edited in French. Le Temps consists of a daily newspaper , several supplements , thematic special editions, a performing website and digital applications.Le Temps is the...

 in the inter-war period. He became literary critic for Monde

Le Monde

Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

, the heir of Temps on the Liberation of France, and for them coined the term 'nouveau roman

Nouveau roman

The nouveau roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the title in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to describe certain writers who experimented with style in each novel, creating an essentially new...

'. He was elected a member 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,...

 in 1946 at the same time as Édouard Le Roy

Edouard Le Roy

Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy was a French philosopher and mathematician.Le Roy was received at the École Normale Supérieure in 1892, and at the agrégation in mathematics in 1895...

.

Works

• Poèmes à Sylvie (1906)
• Eurydice (1907)
• Petite suite italienne (1909)
• Jardins à la Française (1911)
• L’Instant et le Souvenir (1912)
• Vignettes romantiques et turqueries (1912)
• À quoi rêvent les jeunes gens ? (1913)
• La Flamme et les Cendres (1914)
• Bellica (1915)
• Le carnet d’un dragon dans les tranchées (1918)
• Valentin (1918)
• Le diable à l’hôtel ou les plaisirs imaginaires (1919)
• Temps innocents (1921)
• Courrier littéraire I (1922)
• Aquarelles (1922)
• Aventures de Sylvain Dutourd (1923)
• Livres et portraits, 3 vol. (1923–1927)
• Aricie Brun ou les Vertus bourgeoises (1924), Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
  Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
  Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1918, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France...
  
  
• Stendhaliana (1924)
• Courrier littéraire II (1925)
• Les livres du second rayon (1925)
• Promenades pittoresques sur les bords de la Seine (1926)
• L’enfant perdu (1926)
• Éloge de la curiosité (1927)
• Journal de bord (1927)
• Esquisses et notes de lecture (1928)
• Alfred de Musset (1928)
• Promenades italiennes (1928)
• L’art de former une bibliothèque (1928)
• Romanesques et romantiques (1930)
• Les occasions perdues (1931)
• Épistoliers et mémorialistes (1931)
• La marchande de couronnes (1932)
• En Provence (1932)
• Courrier littéraire : XVIIe siècle (1933)
• Le pénitent de Psalmodi (1933)
• Vers l’oasis en Algérie (1935)
• Portraits de femmes, d’Héloïse à Marie Bashkirtseff (1935)
• Tout va finir (1936)
• Portraits de femmes, de Marie de France à Katherine Mansfield (1937)
• Le livre de mon père (1938)
• Recherche d’un château perdu (1941)
• Le pèlerinage espagnol (1942)
• Quatre nouvelles (1944)
• Poètes français, 2 vol. (1944–1946)
• Naissances (1945)
• Courrier littéraire : XIIIe siècle, 2 vol. (1945)
• Beautés du Brésil (1946)
• Courrier littéraire : XIXe siècle, autour de Chateaubriand (1948)
• La rose de Bratislava (1948)
• Courrier littéraire : XIXe siècle, Stendhal, Mérimée et leurs amis (1948)
• Les fils de la louve (1949)
• Tout va recommencer sans nous (1951)
• Courrier littéraire III (1953)
• Courrier littéraire : XIXe-XXe siècles, 2 vol. (1955–1956)
• Au bord du temps (1958)
• On n’est pas perdu sur la terre (1960)

External links

• Académie française