Daniel Rops
| Henri Petiot | |
| Other names | Daniel-Rops |
|---|---|
| Activity (s) | writer and historian |
| Birth | 19 January 1901 Epinal |
| Deaths | 27 July 1965 Chambry |
Henri Petiot, "said is a French writer and historian, born in Epinal on 19 January 1901 and died in Chambery on 27 July 1965.
Biography
Daniel-Rops was born in Epinal in 1901 where his father, an officer was stationed. Students of the Faculties of Law and Literature of Grenoble , he prepares the aggregation of history , to which it is received at the age of 21. He was successively professor at Chambry , Amiens and Paris , then to the Lycee Pasteur in Neuilly. In the years 1925-1930, he began his literary career with a test , our concern ( 1927 ) and a novel The dark soul ( 1929 ) and numerous articles in various periodicals, including The Correspondent , Notre Temps , La Revue the living. In 1923 he founded with Georges Gimel quarterly literary magazine "Tried" to be published from 1923 to 1924. Further syntheses of great writers, a special issue dedicated to Stendhal. it is the relay of the NRF publications and offers passages of books translated into foreign languages.
From 1931 , when it comes to closer to Catholicism , he took on the advice of Gabriel Marcel , the activities of the New Order , which he shares guidelines personalist. It contributes actively to disseminate the ideas in books that it is sometimes difficult to tell what they owe to his personal reflection or the doctrine of the movement to which it belongs and which makes him a representative of the effervescence intellectual mavericks of the 30s : the soulless world, rotating the years, elements of our destiny.
After 1935 , its links with the New Order was somewhat distended and collaborates with Catholic weekly in September and then this time. Until 1940 he published several novels (The Dark Soul in 1929 , Death, where is thy victory? in 1934 , Sword of Fire in 1939 ), biographies and essays (Psichari (1922), our concern in 1927 , The soulless world in 1930 , Rimbaud, the spiritual drama in 1935 , Pascal and our heart, Beyond our night, Reflections on the will), leader in Plon Collection "Presences", in which he published the book La France and its Army of General de Gaulle , whom he befriends. In 1941-1944, he wrote The People of the Bible and Jesus in his time, beginning a work of religious history will continue with the monumental History of the Church of Christ. After the Liberation , he gave up teaching to devote himself to his work as a historian and writer Christian, ensuring the direction of Ecclesia Review and encyclopedic collection "I know, I think, at Fayard.
Meanwhile, recovering in this undertaking some of his former comrades in the New Order, he participates in several European federalist movements, belonging to the group The Federation and the French Federalist Movement. It is from 1957 to 1963, one of the fifty governors of the European Foundation of Culture founded by Denis de Rougemont. He was elected in 1955 member of the French Academy , the same day as Jean Cocteau and Franois Albert-Buisson.
Daniel-Rops was undoubtedly the most widely read writer of the post-war France in Catholic circles.
Bibliographic Information
- The first French edition of the Journal of Anne Frank , published in 1950 by Calmann-Levy, a preface by Daniel-Rops.
- DRIES Daniel-Rops, Editions Pierre Cailler - Geneva, 1962.
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| Preceded by Edward Le Roy | Chair 7 of the French Academy 1955-1966 | Followed by Pierre-Henri Simon |
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