Jean Tharaud

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Jean Tharaud in 1932

Pierre Marie Martial Charles Tharaud (9 May 1877 – 8 April 1952), better known by his pen name Jean Tharaud, was a French writer. He was the eighteenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1946. His older brother, Jérôme Tharaud, was earlier seated at chair 31 in 1938.

Biography

The Tharaud siblings were born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne, but spend their youth in Angoulême. They left their native Limousin at the end of the 1890s to go to Paris. "They were linked to Charles Péguy, whom they followed during the Dreyfus Affair and the Cahiers de la Quinzaine, and quickly placed themselves under the patronage of Maurice Barrès (from 1904), of whom they became secretaries. The Goncourt prize obtained for Dingley, the Illustrious Writer in 1906 opened the doors of fame to them."

For fifty years they continued to work together, always signing their names, the younger one in charge of the first draft, the older one, Jérôme, responsible for the finalization.

After the World War I, they left the publisher Émile-Paul for the large firm Plon-Nourrit, which offered them exceptional conditions with the collection of 20% of royalties and of which they became leading authors. The great commercial successes they achieved in France led to the multiplication of translations of their books into foreign languages throughout Europe and the United States.

Tireless travelers, they visited many countries, Palestine, Ottoman Syria, Iran, Morocco, Romania, Germany, Italy, Indochina, Ethiopia... and brought back from their travels the material of reports, novels or works with historical or sociological flavor.

The Tharaud brothers were both elected to the Académie française. The election (December 1, 1938) of Jérôme Tharaud before the war posed a case of conscience to the academicians: the writer, indeed, was only "half of a duo of authors" and one could not elect two people to the same chair. Jérôme was elected alone in 1938, but the World War II and the Occupation delayed the election of Jean.

After the war, Jean was, with Ernest Seillière, René Grousset, Octave Aubry and Robert d'Harcourt, one of the five persons elected on February 14, 1946 to the Académie française during the first grouped election of that year to fill the many vacant seats left by the Occupation period.

Jean Tharaud died in Paris and is buried at the Cemetery of Saint-Louis.

Works

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  • Le Coltineur débile (1898; short stories)
  • La Lumière (1900; short stories)
  • Dingley, l'illustre écrivain (1902)
  • Les Hobereaux (1904)
  • L'Ami de l'ordre (1905)
  • Les Frères ennemis (1906)
  • Bar-Cochebas (1907)
  • Déroulède (1909)
  • La Maîtresse servante (1911; novel)
  • La Fête arabe (1912)
  • La Tragédie de Ravaillac (1913)
  • La Mort de Déroulède (1914)
  • L'Ombre de la croix (1917)
  • Rabat, ou les heures marocaines (1918)
  • Une relève (1919)
  • Marrakech ou les seigneurs de l'Atlas (1920)
  • Un Royaume de Dieu (1920)
  • Quand Israël est roi (1921)
  • L'invitation au voyage (1922)
  • La randonnée de Samba Diouf (1922)
  • La Maison des Mirabeau (1923)
  • Le Chemin de Damas (1923)
  • L'An prochain à Jérusalem! (1924)
  • Rendez-vous espagnols (1925)
  • Causerie sur Israël (1926)
  • Notre cher Péguy (1926)
  • La Semaine sainte à Séville (1927)
  • Petite Histoire des Juifs (1927)
  • En Bretagne (1927)
  • Mes années chez Barrès (1928)
  • La Reine de Palmyre (1928)
  • La Chronique des frères ennemis (1929)
  • La Rose de Sâron (1929)
  • Fès ou les bourgeois de l'Islam (1930)
  • L'Empereur, le philosophe et l'évêque (1930)
  • L'Oiseau d'or (1931)
  • Paris-Saïgon dans l'azur (1932)
  • La Fin des Habsbourg (1933)
  • Quand Israël n'est plus roi (1933)
  • La Jument errante (1933)
  • Versailles (1934)
  • Vienne la rouge (1934)
  • Les Mille et un jours de l'Islam I: Les cavaliers d'Allah (1935)
  • Les Mille et un jours de l’Islam II: Les grains de la grenade (1938)
  • Le Passant d’Éthiopie (1936)
  • Cruelle Espagne (1937)
  • L'Envoyé de l'Archange (1939)
  • Les Mille et un jours de l’Islam III: Le rayon vert (1941)
  • Le Miracle de Théophile (1945)
  • Fumées de Paris et d'ailleurs (1946)
  • Vieille Perse et jeune Iran (1947)
  • Les Enfants perdus (1948)
  • Les Mille et un jours de l’Islam IV: La chaîne d'or (1950)
  • La Double confidence (1951)

References

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  • Beaunier, André (1913). Les Idées et les Hommes: Essais de Critique. Paris: Plon-Nourrit.
  • Boyd, Ernest (1925). "The Siamese Twins of French Literature: Jérôme and Jean Tharaud." In: Studies from Ten Literatures. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp.41–48.

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