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Paul Brulat
Paul Brulat, 1918.
Paul Brulat, 1918.
BornMay 26 1866
Saint-Jean-de-Muzols Ardèche (France)
DiedJune 30 1940
Le Chesnay (Yvelines)
Occupationwriter, journalist
LanguageFrench
Genrenovels, essays
Literary movementNaturalism (literature)

Paul Brulat (1866-1940) was a French writer and journalist.

Biography[edit]

Youth and studies[edit]

Paul Brulat, 1926.
Colony of war orphans.

Paul Auguste Brulat was born on may 26 1866 in Saint-Jean-de-Muzols, in Furgon, Ardèche. At his birth, his father, Auguste Casimir Burlat, was a thirty-year-old lawyer, and his mother, Alphonsine Augustine Serpelin, was twenty-eight years old.

At the age of two, Paul Brulat moved with his family to Tunisia, where his father was a lawyer at the district court of Tunis. He returned to Metropolitan France to follow his studies at Marseille High School, now Thiers high school, where he remained a boarder for nine years according to his account. He was classmates with Edmond Rostand[1].

He began studying law in Paris in 1885, and obtained his bachelor's degree.

Professional career[edit]

After a year of military surface, he became an inspector of monuments historiques.

Paul Brulat first met Émile Zola at the end of 1889.

On April 8, 1895, at the town hall of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paul Brulat married Catherine Alice Bionier (born November 13, 1877), in the presence of writers Émile Zola and Paul Alexis and the publisher Georges Charpentier; the last two being relatives of Zola. They divorced on January 6, 1902.

Career[edit]

Literary work[edit]

L'ennemie (The enemy-1896)[edit]

Le Reporter (The reporter-1898)[edit]

Romans[edit]

  • L'Âme errante, 1892.
  • La Rédemption, 1895[2].
  • L'Ennemie, 1897.
  • Le Reporteur, roman contemporain, 1898.
  • La Faiseuse de gloire, 1900.
  • Le Nouveau Candide, 1902.
  • La Gangue, 1903.
  • Eldorado, 1904.
  • L'Aventure de Cabassou, 1905.
  • Beaucoup d'amour pour rien..., 1916.
  • Rina, 1918.
  • La Plus Belle Victoire, 1920.
  • L'Étoile de Joseph, 1921.
  • L'Amour sauveur, (15 pages) 1921.
  • Ne forçons pas notre destin, 1926.
  • Le Passage dangereux, 1928.
  • Le Devoir de vivre, 1928.
  • La Vie de Rirette, 1932.

Histoire[edit]

  • Histoire populaire de Jules Ferry, 1907.
  • Histoire populaire d'Émile Zola, 1909.
  • Histoire populaire de Gambetta, 1909.
  • Histoire populaire du général Hoche, 1911.
  • Histoire populaire du général Galliéni, 1920.

Contes et nouvelles[edit]

  • Sous la fenêtre, 1896.
  • Méryem, 1900.
  • La Femme et l'Ombre, 1913.
  • Les Destinées, 1921.

Divers[edit]

  • L'Affaire Dreyfus. Violence et Raison, 1898.
  • Pensées choisies, 1922.
  • Causerie faite en l'Hôtel du Cercle de la Librairie, 1923[3].
  • Lumières et grandes ombres. Souvenirs personnels, 1930.
  • La Peinture à travers les âges, 1931[4].

Bibliography[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

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External links[edit]

[[Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour]] [[Category:20th-century French journalists]] [[Category:19th-century French journalists]] [[Category:20th-century French writers]] [[Category:19th-century French writers]] [[Category:Articles with authority control information]]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Chantecler was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Titre complet : Histoire d'un homme [sous la Troisième République]. La Rédemption.
  3. ^ In Dix causeries françaises faites en l'Hotel du Cercle de la Librairie [Texte imprimé] : 15 décembre 1922-22 juin 1923, p. 248-290 ; la causerie de Paul Brulat date du 25 mai 1923.
  4. ^ Avec Guillaume Jeanneau, inspecteur des Monuments historiques.