François Lachenal

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François Paul Lachenal (

occupation of France by Germany. He was member of the Swiss delegation in Vichy till 1944 and later till 1945 at the Swiss embassy in Berlin.[2] Publisher of the magazine Traits he was son of Genevan politician Paul Lachenal, nephew of The president of the Swiss Confederation Adrien Lachenal and married to Johanna Bertha Caroline Otken. He is buried at the Cimetière des Rois
in Geneva.

François Lachenal

Publisher

It is due to his occupation as diplomat that he was able to safeguard and transport important manuscripts of French writers of the

Vercors,[3] which he published at Les Editions de Minuit and Les Trois Collines[4] which continued its activities until 1965. He published fifty editions of the literary magazine Traits[5] and hundreds of titles under this label.[6]

With Pierre Seghers, Paul Eluard and Jean Lescure, he gathers in 1943 the texts of many poets of the French Resistance, which he published in Les Editions de Minuit under the title: L’honneur des poètes.

From 1944 onwards, Lachenal, published and edited for Les Trois Collines the series Les Grands Peintres par leurs amis including a collection of poems by Paul Éluard with works by Pablo Picasso 1946 followed by Braque le patron by Jean Paulhan, 1947 Chagall ou l'orage enchanté by Raïssa Maritain 1948, and Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace by Douglas Cooper.[7] 1949. Lachenal is also the publisher of Voir by Paul Éluard, a group of poems dedicated to the painters who are close to him.

François Lachenal entrusted the Archives (1940-1965) of these publications, complete collections and correspondence with printers and writers, to the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives and the Universitz of Lausanne.[8]

In February 1944, Lachenal obtained, as a member of the Delegation in Lyon, a passport of protection for Gertrud Stein and Alice B. Toklas. These documents declared them temporary residents in France and therefore gave them the right to enter Switzerland.[9]

In 1989 he worked for the exhibition "From Greco to Goya", supported by his nephew Daniel Garbade, an exhibition in honor of the rescue of Masterpieces of the Prado Museum in Geneva in 1939.

From 1959 till 1997 he directed the ''Internationale Tage'' ("International Days"), a cultural festival with expositions organized for Boehringer Ingelheim.

In 1995, an exhibition was organized in Paris at the Center Culturel Suisse, depicting his life as an editor and his role as a textual artist during the war.

Bibliography

By François Lachenal

  • François Lachenal (foreword by Jean Lescure), Éditions des Trois Collines, Genève-Paris (= L’edition contemporaine.) IMEC, Paris 1995,
    ISBN 2-908295-26-1
    .
  • François Lachenal, Robert Boehringer (sous la dir. de): Ingelheim am Rhein. 774–1974. Boehringer-Ingelheim 1974.

About François Lachenal

References

  1. ^ "François Lachenal". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. ^ GL, Jacques Barrelet /. "Lachenal, François". HLS-DHS-DSS.CH (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  3. ISBN 9783125915848
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  4. ^ "Éditions des Trois Collines". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Traits. Poésie, Documents, Lettres. Revue indépendante paraissant douze fois par ans. IIIe année, n° 7, juillet 1943. by Revue – Résistance] – [Michaux, Henri]: Traits, Lausanne Couverture souple, Ed. originale – Des livres autour (Julien Mannoni)". abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  6. ISBN 9783110943795
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  7. ISBN 9780226712451
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  8. ^ "François Lachenal (1918–1997)" (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  9. ISBN 0300067747
    . Wars I have seen lachenal.
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