French novelist and journalist (1923-2000)
Michel Droit (23 January 1923 – 22 June 2000) was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007).
Biography
After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris and Sciences Po , Droit joined the army in 1944 and was wounded near Ulm in April 1945. He took on a career as a press, radio and television journalist after the Second World War and at the 1960s he was the preferred television interviewer of général de Gaulle .
His first novel, Plus rien au monde , dates to 1954. In 1964, he won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel The Return Le Retour ). On 6 March 1980, on the same day as Marguerite Yourcenar , he was elected as a member of the Académie française , replacing Joseph Kessel .
Droit wrote a polemic against a reggae adaptation of La Marseillaise Aux armes et cætera Serge Gainsbourg , reproaching him for "provoking" a resurgence of anti-Semitism and thus making things difficult for his "co-religionists". Droit was attacked for this position by the Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples .
Droit got into legal difficulties as a member of the CNCL , a television regulator set up in the 1980s, but this was thrown out of court with the help of his lawyer Jean-Marc Varaut .
Droit accidentally killed one of his companions on a safari in Africa.[ 1]
Droit is buried in the Passy Cemetery .
Works
De Lattre Maréchal de France , Pierre Horay, 1952 (livre sur Jean de Lattre de Tassigny )André Maurois , Éditions universitaires, 1953 (livre sur André Maurois )Plus rien au monde , Prix Max Barthou, Ferencz, 1954Jours et Nuits d’Amérique , Georges Nizet, 1954Visas pour l’Amérique du Sud , Gallimar, 1956Pueblo , Julliard, 1957J’ai vu vivre le Japon , Fayard, 1958Panoramas mexicains , Fayard, 1960La Camargue , Prix Carlos de Lazerme, Benjamin Arthaud, 1961The Return Le Retour ), Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française , Julliard, 1964 Les Compagnons de la Forêt-Noire , Julliard, 1966, Tome 1 de la série "le temps des hommes "[ 2] La Fille de l’ancre bleue , Solar,1967L’Orient perdu , Julliard, 1969, Tome 2 de la série "le temps des hommes "[ 2] L’Homme du destin , Larrieu-Bonnel,1972La Ville blanche , Julliard, 1973, Tome 3 de la série "le temps des hommes "[ 2] La coupe est pleine , France-Empire, 1975La Mort du connétable , Julliard, 1976, Tome 4 de la série "le temps des hommes "[ 2] Les Feux du crépuscule , Plon, 1977Les Clartés du jour , Plon, 1978Le Lion et le Marabout , Plon, 1979Les Lueurs de l’aube , Plon, 1981Une plume et un micro , Plon, 1982Et maintenant si nous parlions de l’Afrique du Sud , Plon, 1983Une fois la nuit venue , Plon, 1984Lettre ouverte à ceux qui en ont plus qu’assez du socialisme , Albin Michel, 1985La Rivière de la guerre , Julliard, 1985Le Fils unique , Plon, 1988Le Rendez-vous d’Elchingen , Plon, 1990Nous parlerons de Rome , Le Fallois, 1992Le Temps d’apprendre à vivre , Le Rocher, 1993Le Temps qui tient au cœur , Le Rocher, 1996
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