Octave Aubry
Encyclopedia
Life
Aubry, Ernest SeillièreErnest Seillière
Ernest-Antoine Seillière was a French writer, journalist and critic.-Life:He was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at theÉcole polytechnique...
, Jean Tharaud
Jean Tharaud
Jean Tharaud was a French writer.Tharaud was born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne.He was the eighteenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1946...
, René Grousset
René Grousset
René Grousset was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française...
and Robert d'Harcourt
Robert d'Harcourt
Robert d'Harcourt was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist.-Early life:...
were the five members of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. Aubry himself succeeded cardinal Alfred Baudrillart in seat 8, but died a month and a half after his election, the day before he was due to present his reception speech to the Commission de lecture.
Works
- De l'amour, de l'ironie, de la pitié, poems (1904)
- Le Roman de l'énergie individuelle : la face d'airain (1906)
- De la loi de pardon en matière pénale, doctoral thesis (1908)
- L'Homme sur la cime (1912)
- Le Chemin de Damas (1912)
- Sœur Anne (1912)
- Le Roi perdu retrouvé : Louis XVII (1924)
- Le Grand Amour caché de Napoléon : Marie Walewska (1925)
- Le Lit du roi : Casanova, Louis XV et Mlle de Romans (1926)
- Le Roman de Napoléon (1927)
- Bonaparte et Joséphine (1927)
- Brelan de femmes, ou Le Coup d'État de Brumaire (1927)
- Couleur de sang (1928)
- L'Orphelin de l'Europe, Gaspar Hauser (1928)
- Napoléon III (1929)
- L'Espagne (2 volumes, 1929-1930)
- Marie Walewska (1930)
- Le Roi perdu (1931)
- L'Impératrice Eugénie (1931)
- L'Impératrice Eugénie et sa cour (1932)
- Le Roi de Rome (1932)
- La Trahison de Marie-Louise (1932)
- Les Dernières Années de l'impératrice Eugénie (1933)
- La Jeunesse du Roi de Rome (1933)
- Une tragédie de palais (Gaspard Hauser) (1934)
- Histoire de France. III, Révolution et Empire (1934)
- Sainte-Hélène (2 volumes, 1935)
- L'Aiglon prisonnier (1935)
- Le « Ménage » de Napoléon ; Napoléon, Talma et Mlle George ; Marie-Louise, duchesse de Parme ; Pèlerinage à Sainte-Hélène ; Les Anglais et Napoléon (1936)
- La Mort de l'Aiglon (1936)
- Le Règne de Napoléon III (1937)
- Le Second Empire (1938)
- Napoléon et l'amour (1938)
- Vie privée de Napoléon (1939)
- Les Pages immortelles de Napoléon (1941)
- L'Aiglon, des Tuileries aux Invalides (1941)
- La Révolution française (2 volumes, 1942-1945)