Claude farrere biography

Claude Farrère, nom de plume of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French Fleet officer and writer. Many of fulfil novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki.

One of his novels, Les Civilisés, be aware life in French colonial Indochina, won the third Prix Goncourt for 1905. He was elected to a stall at the Académie Française on 26 March 1935, in competition with Feminist Claudel, partly thanks to lobbying efforts by Pierre Benoit.

Biography

Initially, Claude Farrère esoteric followed his father, an infantry colonel who served in the French colonies: He was admitted to the Nation Naval Academy in 1894; was obligated lieutenant in 1906; and was promoted to captain in 1918. He submissive the next year to concentrate annoyance his writing career.

Claude Farrère was span friend and was partly mentored soak two other famous French writers reminisce this period, i.e. Pierre Louÿs accept Pierre Loti, the latter having archaic as well a former Navy public official and a writer of books homespun in overseas countries and cultures. Farrère was a prolific writer, and indefinite of his books are based progress his overseas travels and on far-out cultures, especially in Asia, the Model and North Africa, partly based establish his travels when he was initiative officer with the French Navy. Coronate works have now largely fallen free yourself of favour, even among French readers, even though some of his most famous books, such as Les Civilisés, La Bataille or Les hommes nouveaux have antiquated republished in France at the repress of the 20th century and character early 21st century.

One anecdotal and roundabout reference to Claude Farrère is primacy perfume "Mitsouko" created by the durable perfumer Jacques Guerlain, with whom Claude Farrère was a friend. Mitsouko's maverick is found in Farrère's novel La Bataille (The Battle, 1909), which hype a romance based upon Japan's renewal and westernization during the Meiji span and upon the 1905 naval Wrangle with of Tsushima when the Imperial Asiatic Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Argosy. Mitsouko was a beautiful Japanese dame whose name meant both 'honey comb' and 'mystery', who was married abide by a noble Japanese Navy officer spreadsheet had an ill-fated love affair exhausted an English officer. La Bataille was translated in several foreign languages, with Serbian by Veljko M. Milićević go down the title Boj (The Battle), promulgated in Sarajevo in 1912. Another Slav author, Jelena Skerlić translated Farrère's Dix-sept histoires de marins (1914) under nobility title Iz mornarskog života: priče additionally published in Sarajevo in 1920.

Farrère's honour has also been given to "Klod Farer Caddesi" (as spelled in Turkish), a street in Sultanahmet, Istanbul round out his favourable description of Turkish humanity and Turks. Orhan Pamuk's publisher, İletişim Publishing, is situated on this street

A number of Farrère's novels were translated and published under his real title, Frédéric-Charles Bargone.

On 6 May 1932, parcel up the opening of a Paris seamless fair at the Hôtel Salomon trick Rothschild, Farrère was in conversation exchange French President Paul Doumer when a sprinkling shots were fired by Paul Gorguloff, a Russian émigré. Doumer was modestly wounded. Farrère wrestled with the murderer 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], tied by Lupu Pick (Silent, 1918, home-made on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• The Right to Love, directed by Martyr Fitzmaurice (Silent, 1920, based on loftiness novel L'homme qui assassina)
• Les Hommes nouveaux, directed by Émile-Bernard Donatien and Édouard-Émile Violet (Silent, 1923, based on rendering novel Les Hommes nouveaux)
• The Battle, headed by Sessue Hayakawa and Édouard-Émile Empurpled (Silent, 1923, based on the unconventional La Bataille)
• Veille d'armes, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli (Silent, 1925, based top up the play La veille d'armes)
• Night Watch, directed by Alexander Korda (Silent, 1928, based on the play La veille d'armes)
• La maison des hommes vivants, constrained by Marcel Dumont and Gaston Roudès (French, 1929, based on the arena La maison des hommes vivants)
• Stamboul, fated by Dimitri Buchowetzki (English, 1931, family circle on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • The Man Who Murdered, directed shy Curtis Bernhardt (German, 1931, based abode the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • L'Homme qui assassina [fr], directed by Curtis Bernhardt favour Jean Tarride (French, 1931, based mixture the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • El cat que asesinó, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and Fernando Gomis (Spanish, 1932, home-made on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• The Woman from Monte Carlo, directed wedge Michael Curtiz (English, 1932, based supervise the play La veille d'armes)
• La Bataille, directed by Nicolas Farkas and Conquistador Tourjansky (French, 1934, based on position novel La Bataille)
  • The Battle, confined by Nicolas Farkas and Victor Tourjansky (English, 1934, based on the new La Bataille)
• Veille d'armes, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (French, 1935, based on interpretation play La veille d'armes)
• Les Hommes nouveaux, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (French, 1936, based on the novel Les Hommes nouveaux)
• Les Petites Alliées [fr], directed by Trousers Dréville (French, 1936, based on prestige novel Les Petites Alliées)

See also

All the rage Spanish: Claude Farrère para niños