Georges Pillement
Georges Pillement (23 March 1898 – 14 April 1984) was a French writer, translator and photographer. He was born in Mayet in the Loire region. He won the Prix des Deux Magots for his novel Plaisir d'amour in 1937.
Georges Pillement
- Full name
- Georges Achille Lucien Pillement.
- Born
- 1898. · Mayet.
- Died
- 1984. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- photographer, writer, opinion journalist and translator.
- Fields
- Spanish literature and translation from Spanish.
- Honours
- Prix des Deux Magots, Louis Barthou Prize and Georges-Dupau award.
- Languages
- French.
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Georges Pillement (23 March 1898 – 14 April 1984) was a French writer, translator and photographer. He was born in Mayet in the Loire region. He won the Prix des Deux Magots for his novel Plaisir d'amour in 1937.
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From 1941, he published books devoted to the preservation of ancient monuments and continued his work on television, as well as the establishment of associations and a traveling exhibition in the 1960s.
• Anthologies • Anthologie du théâtre français contemporain, 3 volumes: • Tome 1: Le Théâtre d'avant-garde, éditions du Bélier, coll. "Les documents littéraires", Paris, [between 1945 and 1948] • Tome 2: Le Théâtre du boulevard, éditions du Bélier, coll. "Les documents littéraires", [between 1945 and 1948] • Tome 3: Le Théâtre des romanciers et poètes, éditions du Bélier, coll. "Les documents littéraires", [between 1945 and 1948] • Anthologie de la poésie amoureuse, 2 volumes: • Tome 1, éditions du Bélier, Paris, 1954, • Tome 2, éditions du Bélier, Paris, 1955, • Anthologie des lettres d'amour, éditions du Bélier, Paris, 1956; • Plaisir d'amour, 1937, Prix des Deux Magots • Beautés cachées de la France, Centre et Sud, éditions des Deux mondes, Paris, 1951, – Réédition à l'identique: éditions H. Veyrier, Paris, 1966. • Les cathédrales de France (avec des pointes sèches de Charles Samson), éditions d'art les Heures claires, 1958, • Photographs • Les Cathédrales d'Espagne, 3 volumes (texts and photographs by Georges Pillement): • Tome 1, éditions Bellenand, coll. « Bibliothèque d'art et d'histoire », 1951, Paris, • Tome 2, éditions Bellenand, coll. « Bibliothèque d'art et d'histoire », 1952, Paris, • Tome 3, éditions Bellenand, coll. « Bibliothèque d'art et d'histoire », 1952, Paris, • L'Espagne inconnue: itinéraires archéologiques (texts and photographs), éditions Bernard Grasset, 1954, • Novels • François-les-Bas-Bleus, éditions Fayard, Paris, 1938, – Réédition: Éditions de la Nouvelle revue Belgique, Paris et Bruxelles, 1942, • Other • Destruction de Paris, éditions Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1941, • Le Château de Fontainebleau (ouvrage trilingue en français, allemand et espagnol, textes de Georges Pillement, photographies de Marc Foucault, sous la direction artistique de Emmanuel Boudot-Lamotte), éditions Tel, Paris, 1942, • Saccage de la France(illustré de 32 planches hors-texte en héliogravure) Édition Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1943 • Défense et illustration d’Avignon) (textes de Georges Pillement, couverture composée d'un bois gravé et dessiné par Robert Joël), éditions Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1945, • Demeures parisiennes en péril, éditions Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1948, • Cloîtres et abbayes de France, éditions des Deux mondes, Paris, 1950, • Charme de Paris (textes de Georges Pillement, aquarelles de J.-M. Le Tournier, éditions H. Piazza, Paris, 1959, • Du Cotentin, pays secret, au vert Bocage (textes de Georges Pillement, illustrations de Marguerite Mackain-Langlois, éditions Aux dépens d'un mateur, Paris, 1966, • Les Environs de Paris disparus, éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 1968, • Châteaux de France, éditions Gautier-Languereau, coll. « Jeunes bibliophiles », Paris, 1969, • Liban, Syrie et Chypre inconnus, Albin Michel, coll. « Les guides Pillement », 1971 • "Paris Poubelle", éditions Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, 1974, 206 p. * • Ernest Kosmowski, Éditions Visages du monde, Paris, 1978, • La Bretagne inconnue, éditions Pierre Belfond, coll. « Guide-itinéraires », Paris, 1979, 32 p. de planches illustrées,. • La Grèce inconnue, éditions Albin Michel, coll." Les Guides Pillement", 1969, 430 p.
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