Jean-Claude Brisville (28 May 1922 â€" 11 August 2014) was a French
writer, playwright, novelist and author for children. A screenwriter,
in particular for the film Beaumarchais, l'insolent, he obtained the
Grand Prix du théâtre of the Académie française in 1989 for all
his body of work.Recognition came later, in the same year, with Le
Souper [fr], a theatre play featuring Joseph Fouché and
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord during an evening in 1815 when
they decided together to impose a monarchical regime on invaded
France. It was the film adaptation that Édouard Molinaro realized in
1992, Claude Brasseur taking the role of Fouché and Claude Rich that
of Talleyrand, which made him discover by the general public.The son
of an industrialist[1] installed at Asnières,[2] Jean Claude
Brisville, fed during his adolescence of the novels by José Moselli
[fr],[2] began his professional life at the Liberation of France as a
literary journalist. An esteemed but confidential poet, playwright and
essayist,[1] he worked for the Hachette publishing house then became a
reader for the Éditions Julliard. In 1957, he wrote and published the
first study about Albert Camus[3] who made him his last secretary
until 1959.[4] The family responsibilities made him renounce the risky
profession of playwright and devote himself entirely to that of
publisher.[2] In 1964, after he became a literary director, he made
Ernst Jünger known in France by publishing a new edition of the
"Journal de guerre", thanks to the determination of Christian Bourgois
[fr]In 1970, he established a lasting friendship with Julien Gracq who
accepted the adaptation he wrote for the television production that
Jean-Christophe Averty did of the Beau Ténébreux.[2]
writer, playwright, novelist and author for children. A screenwriter,
in particular for the film Beaumarchais, l'insolent, he obtained the
Grand Prix du théâtre of the Académie française in 1989 for all
his body of work.Recognition came later, in the same year, with Le
Souper [fr], a theatre play featuring Joseph Fouché and
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord during an evening in 1815 when
they decided together to impose a monarchical regime on invaded
France. It was the film adaptation that Édouard Molinaro realized in
1992, Claude Brasseur taking the role of Fouché and Claude Rich that
of Talleyrand, which made him discover by the general public.The son
of an industrialist[1] installed at Asnières,[2] Jean Claude
Brisville, fed during his adolescence of the novels by José Moselli
[fr],[2] began his professional life at the Liberation of France as a
literary journalist. An esteemed but confidential poet, playwright and
essayist,[1] he worked for the Hachette publishing house then became a
reader for the Éditions Julliard. In 1957, he wrote and published the
first study about Albert Camus[3] who made him his last secretary
until 1959.[4] The family responsibilities made him renounce the risky
profession of playwright and devote himself entirely to that of
publisher.[2] In 1964, after he became a literary director, he made
Ernst Jünger known in France by publishing a new edition of the
"Journal de guerre", thanks to the determination of Christian Bourgois
[fr]In 1970, he established a lasting friendship with Julien Gracq who
accepted the adaptation he wrote for the television production that
Jean-Christophe Averty did of the Beau Ténébreux.[2]
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