User:Eli185/Charles Chassé

Eli185/Charles Chassé

Charles Chassé, born January 1, 1883 in Quimper, died May 30, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French writer and biographer.

Life

Born to a college professor father, he studied in Vannes, then in Rennes and finally at the Sorbonne. He published his first sonnets in 1906 in L'Hermine de Bretagne. After passing the aggregation exam in English in 1910, he taught in Nimes then in Avignon where he married a young girl from Bollène. Appointed to Brest in 1911, he took an interest in Mallarmé and Mistral.

Mobilized in 1914 in the 19th IR, he was taken prisoner in Cassel in Germany from May 1918 to January 1919. After the war, he taught at the Naval School, then at the Pasteur high school in Neuilly.

From 1928 to 1932, he represented the University of New York at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre as secretary general of the "Paris School of New York University". He retired from teaching in 1943.

The French Academy awarded him the Langlois Prize in 1944 for his translation of Perfect Line Fisherman by Izaac Walton.

He worked for several newspapers such as the Le Figaro, the Brest Dispatch, the Telegram, the Republican East and has written in many journals including Historia, the literary Figaro, the Revue des Deux Mondes, Connaissance des Arts, etc.

When he died in 1965, he bequeathed to the Departmental Archives of Finistère all the documents he had collected during his life as a browser: letters, newspaper clippings, magazine numbers, handwritten notes, etc.

He is buried in the new cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine (division 15).

Writings

His writings include:

• Napoléon par les écrivains, Paris, Hachette, 1921 ;
• Sous le masque d'Alfred Jarry, les sources d'Ubu-Roi, Paris, Floury, 1922 ;
• Gauguin et son temps, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1963.

Legacy

In Brittany, at least four streets bear his name.

Bibliography

• Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne, Coop Breizh et Institut culturel de Bretagne, 1997, p. 83.
• Répertoire numérique de la sous-série 97J des Archives Départementales du Finistère - Fonds Charles Chassé, Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, 1968.

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