Henriette Charasson
Born6 January 1884
Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France
Died24 December 1972(1972-12-24) (aged 88)
Châteauroux, Indre, France
Other namesOrion
SpouseRené Johannet

Henriette Charasson (6 January 1884 – 24 December 1972) was a French author of Catholic themes who was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]

Biography

Charasson was born on 6 January 1884 in Le Havre, France.

During World War I, Charasson joined the Action Française.[2] She wrote for La Croix and L'Action Française on several occasions under the pseudonym Orion,[3] which increased her notoriety in intellectual and masculine nationalist circles.[4] She later became a contributor for La Dépêche tunisienne as a literary critic for twenty-five years.

Upon reading the works of Charles Maurras, Charasson expressed that her belief in God was awakened. She said: "For me, I repeat, encountering the works of Charles Maurras, who is not a believer, was my first step on the road to Damascus."[4] Her marriage in 1920 to the journalist René Johannet led to her eventual conversion to Catholicism.[5] After the condemnation of Action Française by the Pope Pius XI in 1926, Charasson turned away from the movement.[5]

She died on 24 December 1972 on Châteauroux, France.

Publications

Awards

Charasson's honors are from the Académie Française:

References

  1. ^ "Nomination archive – Henriette Charasson". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  2. ^ Jacques Prévotat , "The Catholic circles of Action française", in L'Action française: culture, society, politics, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9 , read online) p. 157–172
  3. ^ "Poésie Grande Guerre". pgg.parisnanterre.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  4. ^ a b Marty, Albert (1968). L'Action française racontée par ellemême (in French). Nouvelles Editions Latines. ISBN 978-2-7233-0325-5. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  5. ^ a b Bruno Dumons , "L'Action française au feminine: Networks and figures of activists at the beginning of the 20th century", in L'Action française: culture, society, politique, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9 , read online) p. 229–241

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