Creator: | Chardonne, Jacques, 1884-1968 |
Title: | Chardonne mss. |
Collection No.: | LMC 1181 |
Dates: | 1929-1936 |
Quantity: | Quantity: 1 folio |
Abstract: | The Chardonne mss., 1929-1936, consists of the letters of novelist Jacques Chardonne, 1884-1968, whose real name is Jacques Boutelleau. |
Location: | Lilly - Folio |
Language: | Materials are in French . |
Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@indiana.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
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.
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 .
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[Item], Chardonne mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Came to the Lilly Library in 1972
Removed from Jacques Chardonne, Paris, 1929