Pierre Emmanuel

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.
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.
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
1940: Elégies
1941: Tombeau d'Orphée
1942: Le Poète et son Christ
1943: Jour de colère ("Day of Wrath"), including "Hymne de la liberté" ("Hymn to Freedom")
1943: "Les dents serrées", published in L’Honneur des poètes anthology, Éditions de Minuit
1943: La Colombe
1944: Le Poète fou ("The Mad Poet")
1944: Mémento des vivants
1944: Sodome
1945: Combats avec tes défenseurs
1945: La liberté guide nos pas
1947: Poésie, raison ardente
1947: Qui est cet homme
1949: Car enfin je vous aime
1952: Babel
1956: Visage Nuage
1958: Versant de l'Âge
1961: Evangéliaire
1963: Le Goût de l'un
1963: La Nouvelle Naissance
1965: La Face Humaine
1970: Jacob
1973: Sophia
1976: La Vie Terrestre
1978: Tu
Le Livre de l'Homme et de la Femme, a trilogy:
1978: Una ou la mort la vie
1979: Duel
1980: L’Autre
1981: L'Arbre et le Vent
1981: Le grand oeuvre, published a few weeks before his death
1984: Le grand œuvre. Une cosmogonie
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. .
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")
Interviews
« Les dernières interrogations de Pierre Emmanuel » Emmanuel's final interview conducted by Damian Pettigrew, published in Le Monde, 7 October 1984
References
External links
Pierre Emmanuel - The official site of Pierre Emmanuel
PEN International
1916 births
1984 deaths
People from Béarn
Members of the Académie Française
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Grand Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
20th-century French poets
French male poets
20th-century French male writers
Congress for Cultural Freedom