Gonzague Truc

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Gonzague Joseph Truc (15 November 1877 – 1 June 1972) was a French literary critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer.

Biography

Gonzague Truc was born at Flayosc in the Var department. Extremely prolific, Truc's work touches on various literary currents, but is particularly interested in French classicism. He left several historical essays and correspondence with some of his contemporaries, including René Groos. A close friend of René Boylesve, for whose memory he did much work, he became the first vice-president of the Association of Friends of René Boylesve, when it was founded in 1951.

A frequent contributor to the Revue Philosophique, he was a Thomist who sympathised with Charles Maurras and the Action Française. His publications remain strongly marked by the influence of Maurras and the neo-classicism he promoted with Pierre Lasserre and Henri Clouard.

For his body of work, the French Academy awarded him the Prix d'Académie in 1943 and the Prix Louis Barthou in 1969.

He was the father of Louis Truc.

Works

• Le quartier St-Victor et le jardin des plantes, Paris, Éditions Firmin-Didot, 1930
• Le Roman de la violette de Gerbert de Montreuil, renouvelé par Gonzague Truc, Paris, éd. d'art H. Piazza, 1931
• Introduction à la lecture de René Boylesve, Paris, Le Divan, série-collection « Le Souvenir de René Boylesve », 1932
• Les pages immortelles de Spinoza (choisies et expliquées par Gonzague Truc), Paris, Éditions Corrêa, 1940
• Madame Colette, Paris, Éditions Corrêa, 1941
• Histoire de la Philosophie, Paris, Éditions Fischbacher, 1950
• Histoire de la Littérature Catholique Contemporaine, Casterman, 1961, Prix Broquette-Gonin (littérature)

References

• Coston, Henry (1972). Dictionnaire de la politique française, Vol 2. Paris: Publications H.C.

External links

• Works by Gonzague Truc at Gallica