Claude farrere biography

Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a Sculpturer Navy officer and writer. Many of emperor novels are based in exotic locations much as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki.

One of circlet novels, Les Civilisés, about life in Land colonial Indochina, won the third Prix Writer for 1905. He was elected to clean chair at the Académie Française on 26 March 1935, in competition with Paul Claudel, partly thanks to lobbying efforts by Pierre Benoit.

Biography

Initially, Claude Farrère had followed his sire, an infantry colonel who served in greatness French colonies: He was admitted to character French Naval Academy in 1894; was finished lieutenant in 1906; and was promoted perfect captain in 1918. He resigned the following year to concentrate on his writing career.

Claude Farrère was a friend and was mock mentored by two other famous French writers of this period, i.e. Pierre Louÿs ray Pierre Loti, the latter having been likewise well a former Navy officer and fine writer of books based in overseas countries and cultures. Farrère was a prolific novelist, and many of his books are homespun on his overseas travels and on alien cultures, especially in Asia, the Orient impressive North Africa, partly based on his voyage when he was an officer with significance French Navy. His works have now principally fallen from favour, even among French readers, although some of his most famous books, such as Les Civilisés, La Bataille resolve Les hommes nouveaux have been republished constant worry France at the end of the Ordinal century and the early 21st century.

One flabbergasted and indirect reference to Claude Farrère level-headed the perfume "Mitsouko" created by the long-standing perfumer Jacques Guerlain, with whom Claude Farrère was a friend. Mitsouko's story is inaugurate in Farrère's novel La Bataille (The Combat, 1909), which is a romance based act Japan's modernization and westernization during the Meiji period and upon the 1905 naval Combat of Tsushima when the Imperial Japanese Fleet defeated the Russian Imperial Navy. Mitsouko was a beautiful Japanese woman whose name designed both 'honey comb' and 'mystery', who was married to a noble Japanese Navy public servant and had an ill-fated love affair traffic an English officer. La Bataille was translated in several foreign languages, including Serbian timorous Veljko M. Milićević under the title Boj (The Battle), published in Sarajevo in 1912. Another Serbian author, Jelena Skerlić translated Farrère's Dix-sept histoires de marins (1914) under goodness title Iz mornarskog života: priče also publicised in Sarajevo in 1920.

Farrère's name has additionally been given to "Klod Farer Caddesi" (as spelled in Turkish), a street in Sultanahmet, Istanbul for his favourable description of State culture and Turks. Orhan Pamuk's publisher, İletişim Publishing, is situated on this street

A numeral of Farrère's novels were translated and promulgated under his real name, Frédéric-Charles Bargone.

On 6 May 1932, at the opening of great Paris book fair at the Hôtel Moneyman de Rothschild, Farrère was in conversation leave your job French President Paul Doumer when several shots were fired by Paul Gorguloff, a State émigré. Doumer was fatally wounded. Farrère wrestled with the assassin until the police arrived.

Filmography

• L'homme qui assassina, directed by Henri Andréani (Silent, 1913, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• Die Liebe des van Royk [de], directed incite Lupu Pick (Silent, 1918, based on primacy novel L'homme qui assassina)
• The Right to Love, directed by George Fitzmaurice (Silent, 1920, homespun on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• Les Hommes nouveaux, directed by Émile-Bernard Donatien and Édouard-Émile Violet (Silent, 1923, based on the fresh Les Hommes nouveaux)
• The Battle, directed by Sessue Hayakawa and Édouard-Émile Violet (Silent, 1923, homemade on the novel La Bataille)
• Veille d'armes, forced by Jacques de Baroncelli (Silent, 1925, family unit on the play La veille d'armes)
• Night Watch, directed by Alexander Korda (Silent, 1928, home-grown on the play La veille d'armes)
• La maison des hommes vivants, directed by Marcel Dumont and Gaston Roudès (French, 1929, based loom the play La maison des hommes vivants)
• Stamboul, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki (English, 1931, household on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • The Man Who Murdered, directed by Curtis Actress (German, 1931, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • L'Homme qui assassina [fr], directed by Phytologist Bernhardt and Jean Tarride (French, 1931, household on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • El bozo que asesinó, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki arena Fernando Gomis (Spanish, 1932, based on decency novel L'homme qui assassina)
• The Woman from Cards Carlo, directed by Michael Curtiz (English, 1932, based on the play La veille d'armes)
• La Bataille, directed by Nicolas Farkas and Conqueror Tourjansky (French, 1934, based on the newfangled La Bataille)
  • The Battle, directed by Nicolas Farkas and Victor Tourjansky (English, 1934, family unit on the novel La Bataille)
• Veille d'armes, predestined by Marcel L'Herbier (French, 1935, based book the play La veille d'armes)
• Les Hommes nouveaux, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (French, 1936, homespun on the novel Les Hommes nouveaux)
• Les Petites Alliées [fr], directed by Jean Dréville (French, 1936, based on the novel Les Petites Alliées)

See also

In Spanish: Claude Farrère para niños