Gaëtan Bernoville

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Marie-Joseph-Gaétan Bernoville (26 November 1889 – 11 November 1960), better known as Gaëtan Bernoville, was a French political journalist and writer. Alongside Robert Vallery-Radot, Bernoville was one of the most active supporters of the Catholic Literary Renaissance of the 1920s. He was the founder of the magazine Les Lettres (1913–1931), the Semaine des écrivains catholiques (1921–1927), and director of the collection L'Église et le temps présent.

Biography

Gaëtan Bernoville was born at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, the son of the intellectual Raphaël Edgar Bernoville, a native of Saint-Quentin, author of Dix jours en Palmyrène et La Souanétie libre. Épisode d'un voyage à la chaine centrale du Caucase and Isabel Ortiz de Urruele, descendant of a Spanish noble family. Gaëtan studied at the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux, then at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome, but he abandoned this study after his father passed away in 1907.

With his mother's money, he opened a bookstore in the Latin Quarter and founded the magazine Les Lettres[1] in 1913, which was interrupted by the war (1914–1918), and ran until 1931.[2] Les Lettres brought together militant Catholic writers. Several collaborators of the Revue universelle and the Revue critique also contributed to the review: Jacques Maritain, René Johannet, Louis Martin-Chauffier, Henri Rambaud, Maurice Brillant.[3]

Bernoville, as director of Lettres, organized literary evenings in which young people such as Auguste Viatte took part.[4] In 1920 he called for a gathering of Catholic intellectuals and then organized the annual Catholic Writers' Week conference from 1921 to 1927.[5][6] Also for Les Lettres, he took the initiative of surveys, among which the Survey on Nationalism by Maurice Vaussard in 1923.[7] The magazine Les Lettres ceased publication in 1931.

Gaëtan Bernoville was also a specialist in religious history, author of the series Itinéraire spirituel de la France (20 volumes[8]) and director of the collection L'Église et le temps présent. He has also written books on his native Basque country and edited the collection Gens et Pays de chez nous.[9]

Louis Chaigne, who was secretary of Lettres from 1925 to 1929 and for 40 years a personal friend of Bernoville, gives a description of his personality in his diary.[10]

Buried in the Parisian cemetery of Bagneux, his grave was raised in 2005.

Notes

  1. ↑ Full title: Les Lettres: religion, sociology, philosophy, history, literature, art.
  2. ↑ Serry, Hervé (2001). "Declin Social et Revendication Identitaire: La 'Rrenaissance Litteraire Catholique' de la Premiere Moitie du XXe Siècle," Sociétés Contemporaines, No. 44, pp. 91–109.
  3. ↑ Greshoff, J. (1923). "Over de Franschen tijdschriften III." In: Den Gulden Winckel, No. 22, pp. 114–17.
  4. ↑ Hauser, Claude (2007). "Itinéraire d’un Passeur de Frontières Franco-suisse Auguste Viatte entre Francophonie Littéraire et Engagements Politiques." In: La Croix et la Bannière. L’Écrivain Catholique en Francophonie (XVIIe–XXIe Siècles). Bruxelles: Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, p. 217.
  5. ↑ Schloesser, Stephen (2005). Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 126.
  6. ↑ Toupin-Guyot, Claire (2011). "La Grande Guerre dans l’Entre-deux-guerres. Réponses Apportées par les Catholiques à la 'paix usée'," Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande, No. 4, pp. 51–61.
  7. ↑ Dard, Olivier (2010). "Henri Massis (1886-1970)." In: Le Maurrassisme et la Culture. Volume III: L'Action Française. Culture, Société, Politique. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 256–59.
  8. ↑ Journet-Maritain Correspondance: 1920-1929. Paris: Editions Saint-Augustin (1996), p. 783.
  9. ↑ Correspondance Alexandre Vialatte-Henri Pourrat, 1916-1959, 5. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal (2001), p. 42.
  10. ↑ Chaigne, Louis (1970). Itinéraires d'une Espérance: Pages de Journal. Paris: Beauchesne, p. 108–12.

References

  • Vovard, André (1958). "Un Écrivain Basque: Gaëtan Bernoville," Revue Régionaliste des Pyrénées, pp. 25–27.
  • Serry, Hervé (2004). Naissance de l'Intellectuel Catholique. Paris: La Découverte.

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