Pierre Emmanuel

Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.

Portrait of Pierre Emmanuel by Willy Eisenschitz during World War 2.

Biography

He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1968, president of PEN International between 1969 and 1971, president of French PEN Club between 1973 and 1976, and the first president of the French Institut national de l'audiovisuel in 1975.[1]

His second wife, née Janine Loo (daughter of C. T. Loo), died on April 23, 2013, at the age of 92. She is buried, with Pierre Emmanuel, in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (57th division).

Académie française

Pierre Emmanuel was elected to the Académie française (French Academy) on April 25, 1968, succeeding Marshal Juin. His official reception took place on June 5, 1969. After the election of Félicien Marceau, whose collaborationist attitude he denounced, he resigned from the Academy in 1975 and ceased to sit. His colleagues, however, followed tradition by refusing to take note of this decision and respectfully waiting until his death to replace him with the election of medicine Professor Jean Hamburger on April 18, 1985.

Works

Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (for poetry) or "[year] in literature" article (for prose):

Poetry

Posthumously published
  • 2001: Tombeau d'Orphée suivi de Hymnes orphiques, édition établie et préfacée par Anne-Sophie Andreu, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, coll. Amers, 2001.
  • 2001: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2001, t. I, 1940-1963.
  • 2003: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2003, t. II, 1970-1984.
  • 2005: Lettres à Albert Béguin : correspondance 1941-1952 (édition établie et annotée par Aude Préta-de Beaufort). Lausanne, Paris : L'Âge d'homme, coll. « Cahiers Pierre Emmanuel » n° 2, 2005. ISBN 2-8251-1921-0.

Prose
  • 1950: The Universal Singular: The Autobiography of Pierre Emmanuel (trans. Erik de Mauny), Grey Walls Press: London.
  • 1967: Le monde est intérieur ("The World is Inside")[2]

Interviews

References
  1. Official site of poet Pierre Emmanuel.
  2. Web pages titled "Œuvres de Pierre EMMANUEL" Archived 2010-11-20 at the Wayback Machine (for information on years of publication) and "Pierre EMMANUEL (1916-1984)" Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, for identification as works of poetry, at the Académie française website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  3. Web page titled "Pierre Emmanuel, "Jour de colère", "Hymne de la liberté" Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine at the oodoc.com website (translation "Day of Wrath" from Google), retrieved July 11, 2010
  4. Web page titled "Baccalauréat : épreuve anticipée de français" Archived 2010-07-01 at the Wayback Machine (in French), retrieved July 11, 2010
  5. Web page titled "PIERRE EMMANUEL PAPERS" at the Wichita State University Libraries website, retrieved July 11, 2010
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