Émile Baumann Explained

Émile Baumann
Birth Date:	24 November 1868
Birth Place:	Lyons, France
Death Place:	Vernègues, Vichy France
Occupation:	Novelist
Language:	French
Nationality:	French
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Émile Baumann (24 November 1868 – 24 November 1941) was a French writer.

Biography

Baumann was born in Lyons in 1868. He was descended from a Lutheran family converted to Catholicism.^[1] In Algiers he met Saint-Saëns, and devoted his first work to him. He was directly involved in the Catholic Literary Renaissance movement, alongside such people as François Mauriac, Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy.^[2] Sister Mary Keeler, in her Catholic Literary France says that of all French novelists of the time Baumann was perhaps the most completely Catholic.^[3] He was awarded the Prix Balzac in 1922 for his novel Job le Prédestiné.^[4] In 1931 he married the engraver and artist Elisabeth de Groux, daughter of Belgian painter Henry de Groux.

He died in Vernègues.

Works

• Les Grandes Formes de la Musique, l’œuvre de Camille Saint-Saëns (1905).
• L'Immolé (1909).
• La Fosse aux Lions (1911).
• Trois Villes Saintes: Ars en Dombes, Saint Jacques de Compostelle, Le Mont Saint Michel (1912).
• Le Baptême de Pauline Ardel (1913).
• La Paix du Septième Jour (1917).
• L’Abbé Chevoleau, Caporal au 90e d’Infanterie (1919).
• Le Fer sur l'Enclume (1920).
• Heures d’été au Mont Saint-Michel (1920).
• Job le Prédestiné (1922).
• L’Anneau d’or des Grands Mystiques, de Saint-Augustin à Catherine Emmerich (1924).
• Saint Paul (1925).
• Le Signe sur les Mains (1926).
• Intermèdes (1927).
• Mon Frère Dominicain (1927).
• Les Chartreux (1928).
• Bossuet Moraliste (1929).
• Les Douze Collines (1929).
• Abel et Caïn (1930).
• Marie-Antoinette et Axel Fersen (1931).
• Le Mont Saint-Michel (1932).
• Le Cantique Éternel
  • La Symphonie du Désir (1933).
  • Amour et Sagesse (1934).
• Lyon et le Lyonnais (1934).
• Héloïse, L’Amante et l’Abbesse (1934).
• La Vie Terrible d’Henry de Groux (1936).
• Comment Vivent les Chartreux (1936).
• L'Excommunié (1939).
• Histoire des Pèlerinages de la Sainte Vierge (1941).

Posthumous

• Mémoires (1943).
• Les Nourritures Célestes (1943).
• Shéhérazade (1943).
• Histoire des Pèlerinages de la Chrétienté (1948).
• Pierre Puget, Sculpteur, 1620-1694 (1949).

Articles

• "Toulon et Pierre Puget", La Revue Hebdomadaire, No. 10 (1914).
• "Quand Dieu Parle", La Revue Universelle, No. 15 (1926).
• "Mon frère le Dominicain: Son Enfance et sa Mort", Chroniques, No. 4 (1927).
• "Les Chartreux, les Statuts et le Gouvernement d’un Grand Ordre", La Revue Universelle, (1928).

Works in English translation

• Saint Paul (1929).
• "The Catholic and Supernatural Novel." In: Fiction by its Makers (1928).

Further reading

• Alexander, Calvert (1935). The Catholic Literary Revival. Milwaukee: Bruce Pub.
• Lawhead, Alice (1941). The Reversibility of Grace in the Novels of Emile Baumann. (M.A.) Thesis: University of Notre Dame.
• McMahon, A. (1912). "Catholic Ideals in Modern French Fiction," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVII, pp. 697–717.
• Seeley, Paul Alan (1995). Virile Pursuits: Youth, Religion, and Bourgeois Family Politics in Lyon on the Eve of the French Third Republic. (M.A.) Thesis: University of Michigan.

Notes and References

1. Hoehn, Matthew (1948). "Émile Baumann." In: Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches. Newark, N.J.: St. Mary's Abbey, p. 31.
2. Balmer, Yves (2010). "Religious Literature in Messiaens Personal Library." In: Andrew Shenton, ed., Messiaen the Theologian. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., p. 19.
3. Keeler, Mary Jerome (1935). Catholic Literary France from Verlaine to the Present Time. Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., p. 89.
4. Sheen, Fulton J. (2009). Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen. New York: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, p. 134.