Émile Henriot
Émile Henriot (3 March 1889 – 14 April 1961) was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic.
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Émile Henriot

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- Name
- Émile Henriot
- Born
- 3 March 1889
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 14 April 1961
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · journalist · literary critic · writer
- Movements
- Club des longues moustaches
- Honours
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française · Jouy Prize · Commander of the Legion of Honour · Officer of the Legion of Honour · Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Émile Henriot (3 March 1889 – 14 April 1961) was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic.
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The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include seat 9 of the Académie française. Distinctions recorded are Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Jouy Prize, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics. Photograph by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. From back to front and from left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin, Peter
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• Name — Émile Henriot • Born — 3 March 1889 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 14 April 1961 • Place of death — Paris, France
Biography
Biography
A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot, he fought in the First World War. He first wrote as a journalist for Temps in the inter-war period. He became literary critic for Monde, the heir of Temps on the Liberation of France, and for them coined the term 'nouveau roman' in 1957. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1946 at the same time as Édouard Le Roy.
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Works
• Poèmes à Sylvie (1906) • Eurynice (1907) • Petite suite italienne (1909) • Jardins à la Française (1911) • L’Instant et le Souvenir (1912) • Vignettes romantiques et turqueries (1912) • À quoi rêvent les jeunes gens? (1913) • La Flamme et les Cendres (1914) • Bellica (1915) • Le carnet d’un dragon dans les tranchées (1918) • Valentin (1918) • Le diable à l’hôtel ou les plaisirs imaginaires (1919) • Temps innocents (1921) • Courrier littéraire I (1922) • Aquarelles (1922) • Aventures de Sylvain Dutourd (1923) • Livres et portraits, 3 vol. (1923–1927) • Aricie Brun ou les Vertus bourgeoises (1924), Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française • Stendhaliana (1924) • Courrier littéraire II (1925) • Les livres du second rayon (1925) • Promenades pittoresques sur les bords de la Seine (1926) • L’enfant perdu (1926) • Éloge de la curiosité (1927) • Journal de bord (1927) • Esquisses et notes de lecture (1928) • Alfred de Musset (1928) • Promenades italiennes (1928) • L’art de former une bibliothèque (1928) • Romanesques et romantiques (1930) • Les occasions perdues (1931) • Épistoliers et mémorialistes (1931) • La marchande de couronnes (1932) • En Provence (1932) • Courrier littéraire: XVIIe siècle (1933) • Le pénitent de Psalmodi (1933) • Vers l’oasis en Algérie (1935) • Portraits de femmes, d’Héloïse à Marie Bashkirtseff (1935) • Tout va finir (1936) • Portraits de femmes, de Marie de France à Katherine Mansfield (1937) • Le livre de mon père (1938) • Recherche d’un château perdu (1941) • Le pèlerinage espagnol (1942) • Quatre nouvelles (1944) • Poètes français, 2 vol. (1944–1946) • Naissances (1945) • Courrier littéraire: XIIIe siècle, 2 vol. (1945) • Beautés du Brésil (1946) • Courrier littéraire: XIXe siècle, autour de Chateaubriand (1948) • La rose de Bratislava (1948) • Courrier littéraire: XIXe siècle, Stendhal, Mérimée et leurs amis (1948) • Les fils de la louve (1949) • Tout va recommencer sans nous (1951) • Courrier littéraire III (1953) • Courrier littéraire: XIXe-XXe siècles, 2 vol. (1955–1956) • Au bord du temps (1958) • On n’est pas perdu sur la terre (1960)
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1889
Émile Henriot born at Paris.
1961
Émile Henriot died at Paris.
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