Collection ID: LMC 1181
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Summary

Creator:
Chardonne, Jacques, 1884-1968
Abstract:
The Chardonne mss., 1929-1936, consists of the letters of novelist Jacques Chardonne, 1884-1968, whose real name is Jacques Boutelleau.
Extent:
1 folio
Language:
Materials are in French .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Chardonne mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Jacques Chardonne, 1884-1968, is a novelist whose real name is Jacques Boutelleau. He was born at Barbezieux, Charente, France to an American Quaker mother and a French father, and he was raised Protestant. In 1910 he became a member of the P.V. Stock publishing firm. After 1915, while convalescing from an illness, he began to write and published his first novel in 1921 which portrayed French family, business life, and provincial society.

Politically, he showed support for closer ties between France and Germany by joining Groupe Collaboration, as well as with his "Private Chronicle 1940" which supported European submission to Hitler. After World War II he was imprisoned after being denounced for Nazi collaboration and subsequently died in 1968.

Scope and Content:

The Chardonne mss., 1929-1936, are the letters of Jacques Chardonne, 1884-1968, novelist. The letters are to his publisher, Louis Brun, and mention his books Chant du Bienheureux, Les Destinees Sentimentales, Epithalame, and Eva.

Acquisition information:

Came to the Lilly Library in 1972

Removed from Jacques Chardonne, Paris, 1929

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged following original order.

Physical location:
Lilly - Folio

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Chardonne mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu