Georges Le Cardonnel

Georges Le Cardonnel (1872–1941) was a French literary and art critic.

Early life

Georges Le Cardonnel was born on 12 October 1872 in Valence, Drôme, France.^[1] His father, Louis Aimable Le Cardonnel, was an engineer.^[1] His mother, Amély Joséphine Cumin, was the owner of a clothing shop.^[1] His brother, Louis Le Cardonnel, was a Roman Catholic priest and poet.^[1]

Career

Le Cardonnel co-authored a book about contemporary French literature with Charles Vellay in 1905.^[2] They based their study on the criticisms of Gaston Deschamps, Jean Ernest-Charles, Émile Faguet, and Charles Maurras, among others.^[3] The book was a success, and it was re-edited three times.^[1]

Le Cardonnel was the author of a novel, Les soutiens de l'Ordre in 1909.^[1] By 1911, Le Cardonnel served on the editorial board of Paris-Journal, an arts review for which he reviewed the Orange Festival every year.^[1] Meanwhile, he was a contributing critic in La Revue Universelle, Les Marges, Gil Blas, L'Opinion, among other reviews.^[1] He served on the committee of the Prix Goncourt in 1932.^[1]

Le Cardonnel supported

Le Cardonnel married Madeleine Dehay in 1931.[1] He died on 9 December 1941 in Paris.^[1] The bulk of his papers is held at the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet in Paris.^[4]

Works

• Le Cardonnel, Georges; Vellay, Charles (1905). La littérature contemporaines: Opinions des écrivains de ce temps. Paris: Société du Mercure de France.
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• Le Cardonnel, Georges (1909). Les soutiens de l'Ordre. Paris: Mercure de France.
  OCLC 62415361
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• Gauthier, Serge (1989). Un écrivain valentinois Georges Le Cardonnel, 1872-1941. Valence.
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