page_title: Gaston Chérau
section_title: Literary work
hierarchical_section_title: Gaston Chérau / Literary work
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Couverture du roman "Le remous" (édition 1922)
context_page_description: Gaston Chérau was a French man of letters and journalist.
context_section_description: He is the author of about forty novels.
  1901: Les grandes époques de M. Thébault, Chamuel; Justin Clairbois remained in the state of manuscript
  1921: Valentine Pacquault is at the same time his greatest success and his most famous work
  Sa destinée, novel
  Concorde !… 6 février 1934
  1935: Le Pimpet, illustrated tale by Roger Reboussin, Paris, Delagrave
  1934: Le pays qui a perdu son âme, novel, Paris, Ferenczi
  1930: Le Flambeau des Riffault, novel, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, Fasquelle
  1929: Apprends-moi à être amoureuse, tales, Ferenczi
  1930: La volupté du mal, novel, Ferenczi
  1931: Les cercles du printemps, tales, Ferenczi
  La maison du quai, novel
  L'enfant du pays, novel (Éd. L'Illustration, revue La Petite Illustration, four paperbacks: n° 561, 23 January 1932; n° 562, 30 January 1932; n° 563, 6 February 1932 ; n° 564, 13 February 1932 ; illustrations by Georges Paul Leroux
  La voix de Werther, tales
  1932: Celui du Bois Jacqueline, novel, Ferenczi
  Jacques Petitpont, novel for youth
  La saison balnéaire de M. Thebault, novel, Sevin et Rey
  1903: Monseigneur voyage, novel, Paris, Ollendorf, Stock, 1910, Flammarion, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1930, 1948, 1967, then Ferenczi, 1931); The title character may have been inspired by Charles-Amable de La Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais (1826–1879) archbishop of Bourges quoted at his death in a letter from Maurice Sand; The planned sequel, entitled L'Apprenti (1902?) was not published
  1913: Le Monstre, tales, Stock, 1913
  1906: Champi-Tortu, novel, Olendorff, 1906
  1910: La prison de verre, sequel to Champi-Tortu, Calmann-Lévy
  1913: L'Oiseau de proie, novel, Calmann-Lévy
  1914: Le Remous, sequel to L'Oiseau de proie, Plon
  1929: Fra Camboulive, novel, Flammarion
  1927: Valentine Pacquault, novel (Paris, Mornay - Les Beaux Livres, illustrations by Edelman)
  1923: La Despélouquéro, tales, Plon
  La Maison de Patrice Perrier, novel
  1926: Le vent du destin, tales, Plon
  1927: L'égarée sur la route, novel, Ferenczi
  L'ombre du maître, novel
  L'enlèvement de la princesse, novel
  1934: Chasses et plein air en France, short stories, Stock
  1937: Séverin Dunastier, novel, Paris, Albin Michel
  A generous epicurean, he prefaced the Histoire du cognac by Robert Delamain (Stock, 1935), an archeologist and writer from an old family of merchants in brandy from Jarnac, whose younger brother Jacques (1874–1953), author among others of Portraits d'oiseaux (Stock, 1938 and 1952) was the brother-in-law of the writer Jacques Boutelleau (1884–1968), called Jacques Chardonne.
  He wrote a number of works for children such as Jacques Petitpont, roi de Madagascar (J. Ferenczi, 1928, ill. d'Avelot), L'enlèvement de la princesse (Hachette, 1934, ill. André Pécoud ) or Contes et nouvelles de Gascogne (Bibliothèque Nelson illustrée, 1938, ill. Georges Dutriac).
  Georges Bernanos described him as a "Maupassant of sub-prefecture", because he had not voted for the Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline at the 1932 edition of the prix Goncourt (Le Figaro, 13 December 1932).
  It was, at the Goncourt lunches, the most imaginable charming friend. He animated the table with his rapid and colorful stories. He loved to laugh broadly, but one could feel, behind his laughter, a harsh understanding of life. He wrote, in my opinion, two masterpieces: Champi-Tortu and Petit Dagrello. When I told him, he seemed surprised. His tales of hunter and fisherman have an extraordinary flavor. He was a gourmand, and repeatedly regaled us with cheese-cakes from Bélâbre. He knew and loved the peasant world. His death is a real mourning for the Letters and for his colleagues, whom he had pleasure in compelling. We, the "Goncourt", will often think of him, his joyful entrance, his clairvoyant and sensitive eyes
  (Léon Daudet, L’Action française, 22 April 1937).
caption: Cover of Le remous
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