Camille Marbo
Camille Marbo | |
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Born | Marguerite Appell 11 April 1883 |
Died | 5 February 1969(1969-02-05) (aged 85) |
Marguerite Borel known as Camille Marbo (11 April 1883 – 5 February 1969) née Marguerite Appell, was a 20th-century French writer, president and laureate of the Prix Femina in 1913 and president of the Société des gens de lettres.
Biography
Daughter of mathematician, Paul Appell (1855–1930), Camille Marbo was given the name Marguerite Appell.
In 1901, she married the mathematician and politician Émile Borel (1871–1956).
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In 1906, she created La Revue du mois, a scientific and literary journal, with her husband. The publication allowed contributors the opportunity to choose and discuss subjects as they pleased. Marguerite Borel personally took charge of the critiques of plays, novels, and various chronicles.
When she began writing novels, she chose the pseudonym Camille Marbo, the name Marbo taking the first three letters of her first name Marguerite and the first two of her last name Borel.
In 1913, Camille Marbo was awarded the Prix Femina, then called Prix de la Vie heureuse, for her first novel La statue voilée.
During the First World War, she set the Comité de secours national, the national relief committee with her father. She also founded and ran a temporary hospital in Paris, which earned her the Medal of French Gratitude.[1] In 1916, she was asked to participate in the organization of women in the workforce in place of the men who had gone to battle. Benefiting from her experience as head of the hospital, she created a recruitment center for women, which auditioned, tested, and employed both salaried employees and volunteers in the services sector.[2] More than 20,000 women were employed through this program. The treatise she published in 1919, "Mobilization féminine en France", documents the contribution of these women to the Allied victory.[3] This document is notable for its unique content as well as its methodical and professional form. It is carefully contextualized and enriched with statistics.[4]
She wrote about forty other novels, some monographs and memoirs.
A friend of Marie Curie, she welcomed Marie and her daughters into her home and gave them shelter during the "affaire Langevin", a revelation made by the press of an extramarital affair between Marie Curie, a widow at the time, and Paul Langevin.[5]
Marguerite Borel took part in the political life of Saint-Affrique and participated in the electoral campaigns of her husband, Émile Borel. Marguerite herself was deputy mayor of Saint-Affrique from 1947 to 1954.
In February 1928, Camille Marbo succeeded Jean Dornis as president of the Denier des veuves de la SGDL, giving assistance to the widows of writers without resources.
She became president of the Société des gens de lettres in 1937 and was re-elected in 1938 and again after the liberation in 1947. She was also a member of the jury of the Prix Femina and later became its president.
She published her memoirs in 1967 under the title À travers deux siècles, souvenirs et rencontres (1883-1967).
Marguerite died in 1969, she was a Commander of the Legion Of Honour.
Works
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- 1906: Christine Rodis
- 1913: La Statue voilée, (Prix Femina in 1913)
- 1918: Le Survivant
- 1924: Les Cahiers de Francine
- 1925: À l'enseigne du Griffon
- 1926: Hélène Barraux (celle qui défiait l'amour)
- 1931: À bord de la "Croix du Sud"
- 1932: Celle qui défiait l'amour
- 1933: Ruth
- 1934: Le Perroquet bleu
- 1936: Flammes juives
- 1938: Les Millions de l'émir
- 1941: Le Créole au cœur ardent
- 1941: Violette et son cœur
- 1943: La Baie des courlis
- 1944: L'Oiseau captif
- 1945: Le Buisson de lilas
- 1945: La Nièce du boucanier
- 1946: La Maison Bartholène
- 1947: L'Enigme du manoir
- 1947: Tante Estelle
- 1948: L'Idole offensée
- 1949: Sous les eucalyptus
- 1949: Le Chateau condamné
- 1950: La Tour carrée
- 1951: La Reine de Golconde
- 1952: Monsieur Charles
- 1953: Douce marraine
- 1953: Jeux de la science et de l'amour
- 1955: Isabelle et le secret
- 1955: Le Visiteur inconnu
- 1956: L'Amie de pension
- 1957: Le Bel héritage
- 1958: Mademoiselle Anaïs
- 1959: La Dame de Maison-Blanche
- 1959: Les Lettres
- 1960: Le Diamant bleu
- 1961: La Dernière nuit
- 1961: Un Étrange garçon
- 1962: Le Fiancé mystérieux
- 1963: La Protectrice
- 1964: Les Amoureux du Castillou
- 1965: L'Énigmatique Sylvio
- 1965: Le Sel de ma vie
- 1966: Mon amour, d'où viens-tu ?
- 1967: À travers deux siècles, souvenirs et rencontres (1883–1967), Paris, Grasset
- 1967: Clara Fontaine
Distinctions
- Commander of the Legion Of Honour.
- Prix Femina, then called Prix de la Vie heureuse, 1913.
- Medal of French Gratitude.
See also
References
Bibliography
- "Camille Marbo", in Nouveau Dictionnaire national des contemporains, Paris, 1962, vol. 1, p. 579.
- Ross, Mary Ellen (2009). "Marguerite Borel/ Camille Marbo: The Government's feminist". French and francophone women facing war (in French). Berne: Peter Lang. pp. 69–84. ISBN 978-3039113323.
- Mémoires : À travers deux siècles, souvenirs et rencontres (1883–1967), Paris, Éditions Grasset, 1967.
External links
- Camille Marbo on the site of the Académie française
- Biographie
- Notice on Tombes et sépultures
- Jeux de la science et de l'amour première partie Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine on Revue des Deux Mondes
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- 1904 Myriam Harry
- 1905 Romain Rolland
- 1906 André Corthis
- 1907 Colette Yver
- 1908 Édouard Estaunié
- 1909 Edmond Jaloux
- 1910 Marguerite Audoux
- 1911 Louis de Robert
- 1912 Jacques Morel
- 1913 Camille Marbo
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- 1917 Maurice Larrouy
- 1918 Henri Bachelin
- 1919 Roland Dorgelès
- 1920 Edmond Gojon
- 1921 Raymond Escholier
- 1922 Jacques de Lacretelle
- 1923 Jeanne Galzy
- 1924 Charles Derennes
- 1925 Joseph Delteil
- 1926 Charles Silvestre
- 1927 Marie Le Franc
- 1928 Dominique Dunois
- 1929 Georges Bernanos
- 1930 Marc Chadourne
- 1931 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1932 Ramon Fernandez [fr]
- 1933 Geneviève Fauconnier
- 1934 Robert Francis
- 1935 Claude Silve
- 1936 Louise Hervieu
- 1937 Raymonde Vincent
- 1938 Félix de Chazournes
- 1939 Paul Vialar
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- 1944 Éditions de Minuit (publisher)
- 1945 Anne-Marie Monnet
- 1946 Michel Robida
- 1947 Gabrielle Roy
- 1948 Emmanuel Roblès
- 1949 Maria Le Hardouin
- 1950 Serge Groussard
- 1951 Anne de Tourville
- 1952 Dominique Rolin
- 1953 Zoé Oldenbourg
- 1954 Gabriel Veraldi
- 1955 André Dhôtel
- 1956 François-Régis Bastide
- 1957 Christian Mégret
- 1958 Françoise Mallet-Joris
- 1959 Bernard Privat
- 1960 Louise Bellocq
- 1961 Henri Thomas
- 1962 Yves Berger
- 1963 Roger Vrigny
- 1964 Jean Blanzat
- 1965 Robert Pinget
- 1966 Irène Monesi
- 1967 Claire Etcherelli
- 1968 Marguerite Yourcenar
- 1969 Jorge Semprún
- 1970 François Nourissier
- 1971 Angelo Rinaldi
- 1972 Roger Grenier
- 1973 Michel Dard
- 1974 René-Victor Pilhes
- 1975 Claude Faraggi
- 1976 Marie-Louise Haumont
- 1977 Régis Debray
- 1978 François Sonkin
- 1979 Pierre Moinot
- 1980 Jocelyne François
- 1981 Catherine Hermary-Vieille
- 1982 Anne Hébert
- 1983 Florence Delay
- 1984 Bertrand Visage
- 1985 Hector Bianciotti
- 1986 René Belletto
- 1987 Alain Absire
- 1988 Alexandre Jardin
- 1989 Sylvie Germain
- 1990 Pierrette Fleutiaux
- 1991 Paula Jacques
- 1992 Anne-Marie Garat
- 1993 Marc Lambron
- 1994 Olivier Rolin
- 1995 Emmanuel Carrère
- 1996 Geneviève Brisac
- 1997 Dominique Noguez
- 1998 François Cheng
- 1999 Maryline Desbiolles
- 2000 Camille Laurens
- 2001 Marie NDiaye
- 2002 Chantal Thomas
- 2003 Dai Sijie
- 2004 Jean-Paul Dubois
- 2005 Régis Jauffret
- 2006 Nancy Huston
- 2007 Éric Fottorino
- 2007 Gwenaëlle Aubry
- 2008 Jean-Louis Fournier
- 2010 Patrick Lapeyre
- 2011 Simon Liberati
- 2012 Patrick Deville
- 2013 Léonora Miano
- 2014 Yanick Lahens
- 2015 Christophe Boltanski
- 2016 Marcus Malte
- 2017 Philippe Jaenada
- 2018 Philippe Lançon
- 2019 Sylvain Prudhomme
- 2020 Serge Joncour
- 2021 Clara Dupont-Monod
- 2022 Claudie Hunzinger [fr]
- 2023 Neige Sinno