Henriette Charasson Explained

Henriette Charasson
Birth Date:	6 January 1884
Birth Place:	Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France
Death Place:	Châteauroux, Indre, France
Othername:	Orion
Spouse:	René Johannet

Henriette Charasson (6 January 1884 – 24 December 1972) was a French author of Catholic themes who was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1]

Biography

Charasson was born on 6 January 1884 in Le Havre, France.

During World War I, Charasson joined the Action Française.^[2] She wrote for La Croix and L'Action Française on several occasions under the pseudonym Orion,^[3] which increased her notoriety in intellectual and masculine nationalist circles.^[4] She later became a contributor for La Dépêche tunisienne as a literary critic for twenty-five years.

Upon reading the works of Charles Maurras, Charasson expressed that her belief in God was awakened. She said: "For me, I repeat, encountering the works of Charles Maurras, who is not a believer, was my first step on the road to Damascus." Her marriage in 1920 to the journalist René Johannet led to her eventual conversion to Catholicism.^[5] After the condemnation of Action Française by the Pope Pius XI in 1926, Charasson turned away from the movement.

She died on 24 December 1972 on Châteauroux, France.

Publications

Novel

• Grigri (1922)

Poetry

• Attente: 1914-1917 (1919)
• Les Heures du foyer (1926)
• Mon Seigneur et mon Dieu! (1934)
• Sur la plus haute branche (1938)
• Attente de la délivrance: 1939-1944 (1945)
• Le Sacrifice du soir: 1947-1953 (1953)

Drama

• Le Saut du diable (1931)
• En chemin de fer (1933)
• Une robe de soie (1934)
• Madame est sans bonne (1934)
• Les Réalités invisibles (1934)
• Séparation (1934)
• Bal masqué (1936)
• Ruptures (1938)
• Autour d'un berceau (1939)
• Dix comédies à une voix (1949)

Biography

• Jules Tellier: 1863-1889 (1922)
• Une Âme élue: sœur Claire de Jésus, religieuse bénédictine (octobre 1894-mars 1923) (1931)

Essays

• Faut-il supprimer le gynécée? (1924)
• M. de Porto-Riche ou le Racine juif (1925)
• Deux petits hommes et leur mère (1928)
• La Mère (1931)
• L'Amour et quelques couples (1946)
• Le Livre de mon enfant (1947)
• Une mère se souvient (1953)

Awards

Charasson's honors are from the Académie Française:

• Prix Montyon in 1921
• Prix Fabien in 1925
• Prix d'Académie in 1929, 1935 and 1942
• Prix Paul-Hervieu in 1933
• Prix d'Aumale in 1939
• Prix Alice-Louis Barthou in 1947
• Prix Véga et Lods de Wegmann in 1955 and 1960
• Prix Broquette-Gonin in 1963
• Prix Valentine de Wolmar in 1969

External links

• Jean Rousselot. Dictionary of contemporary French poetry 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier-Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nomination archive – Henriette Charasson. nobelprize.org. 10 December 2023.
2. Jacques Prévotat, "The Catholic circles of Action française", in L'Action française: culture, society, politics, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9, read online) p. 157–172
3. Web site: 2022-02-13. Poésie Grande Guerre. pgg.parisnanterre.fr.
4. Book: 2022-02-13. 1968. Albert. 978-2-7233-0325-5. fr. Marty. Nouvelles Editions Latines. L'Action française racontée par ellemême.
5. Bruno Dumons, "L'Action française au feminine: Networks and figures of activists at the beginning of the 20th century", in L'Action française: culture, society, politique, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9, read online) p. 229–241