Émile Baumann | |
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Born | Lyons, France | 24 November 1868
Died | 24 November 1941 Vernègues, Vichy France | (aged 73)
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | French |
Nationality | French |
Émile Baumann (24 November 1868 – 24 November 1941) was a French writer.
Baumann was born in Lyons in 1868. He was descended from a Lutheran family converted to Catholicism. [1] In Algiers he met Saint-Saëns, and devoted his first work to him. He was directly involved in the Catholic Literary Renaissance movement, alongside such people as François Mauriac, Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy. [2] Sister Mary Keeler, in her Catholic Literary France says that of all French novelists of the time Baumann was perhaps the most completely Catholic. [3] He was awarded the Prix Balzac in 1922 for his novel Job le Prédestiné. [4] In 1931 he married the engraver and artist Elisabeth de Groux, daughter of Belgian painter Henry de Groux.
He died in Vernègues.
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Émile Baumann | |
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Born | Lyons, France | 24 November 1868
Died | 24 November 1941 Vernègues, Vichy France | (aged 73)
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | French |
Nationality | French |
Émile Baumann (24 November 1868 – 24 November 1941) was a French writer.
Baumann was born in Lyons in 1868. He was descended from a Lutheran family converted to Catholicism. [1] In Algiers he met Saint-Saëns, and devoted his first work to him. He was directly involved in the Catholic Literary Renaissance movement, alongside such people as François Mauriac, Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy. [2] Sister Mary Keeler, in her Catholic Literary France says that of all French novelists of the time Baumann was perhaps the most completely Catholic. [3] He was awarded the Prix Balzac in 1922 for his novel Job le Prédestiné. [4] In 1931 he married the engraver and artist Elisabeth de Groux, daughter of Belgian painter Henry de Groux.
He died in Vernègues.
Posthumous
Articles
Works in English translation