The farmer, whose romantic commitment made an author of a tremendous popularity, died on May 26, at the age of 83 years.
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Agricultural operator whose romantic commitment made an author of bestsellers of a tremendous popularity, Claude Michelet died on May 26 in Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), on the eve of his 84th birthday.
Even if he was born, last of a siblings of seven children, on May 30, 1938, in Brive, nothing intended to return to it as soon as adulthood. Admittedly, his ancestors take a strain in the 19th century in the 19th century, but it is then a playground for hunters and the place, only accessible by mule paths, remains without comfort, Without heating or running water, when the craze of his mother makes it a summer vacation location contrasting with the Parisian life of the family.
This attachment port turns out to be precious when the year 1940 led the family to a strategic withdrawal. His father, Edmond, a prosperous merchant in food products, took up residence in Paris, but it was from Brive that he entered the resistance from June 17, 1940, then that he was arrested by the Gestapo, one morning in February 1943 . He did not return from Dachau until two years later, promoted by his commitment to the rank of Baron of Gaullism, and logically appointed under de Gaulle, then Pompidou, to the highest ministerial functions. Claude frequents Catholic schools upscale in Paris, but is bored and prefers the boarding school of the Lancosm (Indre) agriculture school. Finally, his parents give way and admit this choice of the earth.
“Dru and true language”
Called in Algeria under the contingent, the aspiring farmer returns after twenty-seven months, in 1960, resumed a 20 hectare farm and set up six Limousin cows. At the cost of a flawless commitment, the case is prosperous, but Claude also intends to make his voice heard. By pen.
Claude Michelet’s literary commitment is not so surprising when we know that his grandfather, Doctor Fernand Vialle, created a literary magazine in 1901, the breeze, where poems by Francis Carco , later the first poems of Georges-Emmanuel Clancier and texts by Michel Peyramaure.
Very young, Claude devoured Hector Malot, Alphonse Daudet and Robert Louis Stevenson, Henri Barbusse and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. And the taste of reading is doubled, adult, that of writing. He, who signs editorials without lukewarmness in professional journals, tries himself to the novel, “for pleasure”. Seven or eight, including two thrillers, all of which are refused and burned without remorse in the fireplace. Until the publication of the Earth that remains (1965), then, above all, of the Great Wall (Julliard, 1969), hailed by the soap operator of the world, Pierre-Henri Simon, for his “Dru and true language”, his History “original by invention and striking by meaning”.
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