Claude Farrère

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Claude Farrère
Born	Frédéric Charles Pierre Édouard Bargone  27 April 1876, 1876  6th arrondissement of Lyon
Died	21 June 1957, 1957  (aged 81) 5th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation	Writer

Atatürk (İzmit

/18 June 1922)

Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in

.

One of his novels, Les Civilisés, about life in French colonial Indochina, won the third Prix Goncourt for 1905. He was elected to a chair at the Académie Française on 26 March 1935, in competition with Paul Claudel, partly thanks to lobbying efforts by Pierre Benoit.

Biography

Initially, Claude Farrère had followed his father, an infantry colonel who served in the French colonies: He was admitted to the

in 1894; was made lieutenant in 1906; and was promoted to captain in 1918. He resigned the next year to concentrate on his writing career.

Claude Farrère was a friend and was partly mentored by two other famous French writers of this period, i.e. Pierre Louÿs and Pierre Loti, the latter having been as well a former Navy officer and a writer of books based in overseas countries and cultures. Farrère was a prolific writer, and many of his books are based on his overseas travels and on exotic cultures, especially in Asia, the Orient and North Africa, partly based on his travels when he was an officer with the French Navy. His works have now largely fallen from favour, even among French readers, although some of his most famous books, such as Fumée d'opium, Les Civilisés, La Bataille or Les hommes nouveaux have been republished in France at the end of the 20th century and the early 21st century.

One anecdotal and indirect reference to Claude Farrère is the perfume "

translated Farrère's Dix-sept histoires de marins (1914) under the title Iz mornarskog života: priče also published in Sarajevo in 1920.

Farrère's name has also been given to "Klod Farer Caddesi" (as spelled in Turkish), a street in

, is situated on this street

A number of Farrère's novels were translated and published under his real name, Frédéric-Charles Bargone.

On 6 May 1932, at the opening of a Paris book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Farrère was in conversation with French President Paul Doumer when several shots were fired by Paul Gorguloff, a Russian émigré. Doumer was fatally wounded. Farrère wrestled with the assassin until the police arrived.

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Filmography

• L'homme qui assassina, directed by Henri Andréani (Silent, 1913, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• Die Liebe des van Royk [de], directed by Lupu Pick (Silent, 1918, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• The Right to Love, directed by George Fitzmaurice (Silent, 1920, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• Les Hommes nouveaux, directed by Émile-Bernard Donatien and Édouard-Émile Violet (Silent, 1923, based on the novel Les Hommes nouveaux)
• The Battle, directed by Sessue Hayakawa and Édouard-Émile Violet (Silent, 1923, based on the novel La Bataille)
• Veille d'armes, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli (Silent, 1925, based on the play La veille d'armes)
• Night Watch, directed by Alexander Korda (Silent, 1928, based on the play La veille d'armes)
• La maison des hommes vivants, directed by Marcel Dumont and Gaston Roudès (French, 1929, based on the play La maison des hommes vivants)
• Stamboul, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki (English, 1931, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • The Man Who Murdered, directed by Curtis Bernhardt (German, 1931, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • L'Homme qui assassina [fr], directed by Curtis Bernhardt and Jean Tarride (French, 1931, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
  • El hombre que asesinó, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and Fernando Gomis (Spanish, 1932, based on the novel L'homme qui assassina)
• The Woman from Monte Carlo, directed by Michael Curtiz (English, 1932, based on the play La veille d'armes)
• La Bataille, directed by Nicolas Farkas and Victor Tourjansky (French, 1934, based on the novel La Bataille)
  • The Battle, directed by Nicolas Farkas and Victor Tourjansky (English, 1934, based on the novel La Bataille)
• Veille d'armes, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (French, 1935, based on the play La veille d'armes)
• Les Hommes nouveaux, directed by Marcel L'Herbier
  (French, 1936, based on the novel Les Hommes nouveaux)
• Les Petites Alliées [fr], directed by Jean Dréville (French, 1936, based on the novel Les Petites Alliées)

References

External links

• Works by Claude Farrère at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Claude Farrère at Internet Archive