Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand (disambiguation)Louis Bertrand • Illustration — Louis Bertrand Louis Bertrand (20 March 1866 in Spincourt, Meuse – 6 December 1941 in Cap d'Antibes) was a French novelist, historian and essayist. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1925.
Also recorded as Louis Marie Émile Bertrand
Louis Bertrand

Agence de presse Meurisse · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1866 · Spincourt.
- Died
- 1941 · Antibes.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- historian · writer · literary critic · novelist · essayist · teacher · philosopher
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Honours
- Officer of the Legion of Honour · honorary doctorate at the Laval University
- Languages
- French
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Louis Bertrand lived from 20 March 1866 to 6 December 1941 and was a writer and historian.
Life
Louis Bertrand was born on 20 March 1866 and died on 6 December 1941 in Antibes (Alpes-maritimes). Louis Bertrand was born in Spincourt, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Spincourt (Meuse).
Activity
According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Louis Bertrand is Algier.
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Biography
Biography
Louis Bertrand studied at École Normale Supérieure. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Algiers. Positions recorded include seat 4 of the Académie française. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour and honorary doctorate at the Laval University.
Bertrand was born in France and later moved to Algiers. His first novel Le sang des races (1899) explored this complex identity. It's considered a precursor of Algérianisme, a concept of Algerian literature exploring the discrete Algerian identity of settlers laying claim to an authentic existence in Algeria independent of France itself. Bertrand's work notably "valorizes the colony and its European inhabitants", as Seth Graebner put it "not the palm trees, camels or other exotic backdrops (and certainly not Arabs) but instead the new farms, cities, roads, ports and the Europeans building them." Some have described it as "echoes of a fascist discourse".[1] Bertrand encouraged the Jewish-Algerian writer Elissa Rhaïs to first publish her work.[2]
Work
Work
• Novels • Le Sang des races, éd. Ollendorff, 1899.[3] • La Cina, éd. Ollendorff, 1901. • Le Rival de Don Juan, éd. Ollendorff, 1903. • Pépète le bien-aimé, éd. Ollendorff, 1904 (reprinted by the same publisher in 1920 under the title Pépète et Balthazar). • L’Invasion, Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1907. • Les Bains de Phalère, éd. Fayard, 1910. • Mademoiselle de Jessincourt, éd. Fayard, 1911 • La concession de Madame Pedtitgand, éd. Fayard, 1912. • Sanguis martyrum, éd. Fayard, 1918 • L’Infante, éd. Fayard, 1920. • Cardenio - L'homme aux rubans couleur de feu, éd. Ollendorff, 1922. • Une destinée (1), Jean Perbal, éd. Fayard, 1925. • Une destinée (2), Une nouvelle éducation sentimentale, éd. Fayard, 1928. • Le Roman de la Conquête, 1930. • Une destinée (3), Hippolyte porte-couronnes, éd. Fayard, 1932. • Une destinée (4), Sur les routes du Sud, éd. Fayard, 1932. • Une destinée (5), Mes années d'apprentissage, éd. Fayard, 1939. • Une destinée (6), Jérusalem, éd. Fayard, 1939. • Essays, historical, biographical and critical works • La fin du classicisme et le retour à l’antique dans la seconde moitié du XVIII e siècle et les premières années du XIX e en France, Hachette 1897. • Le jardin de la mort, éd. Ollendorff, 1905. • La Grèce du soleil et des paysages, Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1908. • Le Mirage oriental, Librairie académique Perrin, 1910. • Le Livre de la Méditerranée, éd. Grasset, 1911 (édition définitive en 1923). • Gustave Flaubert (avec des fragments inédits), Mercure de France, 1912. • Saint Augustin, éd. Fayard, 1913 • Les plus belles pages de saint Augustin, éd. Fayard, 1916. • Le sens de l'ennemi, éd. Fayard, 1917. • Flaubert à Paris ou le mort vivant, éd. Grasset, 1921. • Sur le Nil, Les Amis d'Edouard, 1921. • Les villes d'or - Algérie et Tunisie romaines, éd.Fayard, 1921. • Autour de saint Augustin, éd. Fayard, 1921. • Louis XIV, éd. Fayard, 1923. • La vie amoureuse de Louis XIV, éd. Flammarion, 1924. • Les journées du grand roi, éd. Flammarion, 1925. • Devant l’Islam, éd. Plon, 1926. • Ma Lorraine, souvenirs et portraits, A. Delpeuch, 1926. • Sainte Thérèse, éd. Fayard, 1927 • Idées et portraits, éd. Plon, 1927. • Les grands aspects du paysage français, A. Delpeuch, 1928. • Philippe II à l'Escorial, L'Artisan du Livre, 1929. • La Méditerranée [avec Hubert Robert], Alpina, 1929. • Philippe II, une ténébreuse affaire, éd. Grasset, 1929. • Histoire de Napoléon, [illustrations by Albert Uriet], éd. Mame, 1929. • Au bruit des fontaines d’Aix-en-Provence, Emile Hazan, 1929. • Nuits d’Alger [lithographies de Suréda], Flammarion, 1929. • D’Alger la romantique à Fez la mystérieuse, éd. des Portiques, 1930. • Font-Romeu, éd. Flammarion, 1931. • Histoire d’Espagne, éd. Fayard, 1932. • Le livre de consolation, éd. Fayard, 1933. • La Riviera que j’ai connue, éd. Fayard, 1933. • Vers Cyrène, terre d’Apollon, éd. Fayard, 1935. • Celle qui fut aimée d’Augustin, éd. Albin Michel, 1935. • Hitler, éd. Fayard, 1936. • L’Espagne, éd. Flammarion, 1937. • La Lorraine, éd. J. de Gigord, 1937. • Alger, éd. Fernand Sorlot, 1938. • Lamartine, éd. Fayard, 1940. • Jardins d’Espagne, éd. Aubanel, 1940. • Un grand Africain: le maréchal de Saint-Arnaud, éd. Fayard, 1941.
Studies of Louis Bertrand
Studies of Louis Bertrand
• Jacques Alexandropoulos, "De Louis Bertrand à Pierre Hubac: images de l'Afrique antique", in J. Alexandropoulos, P. Cabanel, La Tunisie mosaïque: Diasporas, cosmopolitisme, archéologies de l'identité, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail de l'Université de Toulouse, 2000, p. 457-478. • David Clark Cabeen, The African novels of Louis Bertrand. A phase of the renascence of national energy in France, Philadelphia, Westbrook Publishing Co., 1922.
Identity
Identity
Louis Bertrand is recorded as having received Officer of the Legion of Honour and honorary doctorate at the Laval University.

Congrès Eucharistique de Carthage 1930. Imprimé en héliogravure par les imprimeries réunies de Nancy (France)
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Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1866
Louis Bertrand born at Spincourt.
1941
Louis Bertrand died at Antibes.
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Spincourt.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1217603301, Louis, Bertrand.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q648920: Louis Bertrand
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- 1.Aitel, Fazia. We are Imazighen: The Development of Algerian Berber Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture. University Press of Florida. 30. 2014.
- 2.lorcin, patricia m e. Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press. 2012. 978-0-19-538207-5.
- 3.Louis Bertrand.
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