Key facts
- Born
- 2 December 1884, Nîmes , Gard , France
- Died
- 9 October 1968 (1968-10-09) (aged 83), Paris , France
- Occupation
- Writer, literary critic, publisher, translator
- Notable works
- The Flowers of Tarbes, or Terror in Literature (1936)
- Partner
- Anne Desclos
- Relatives
- Frédéric Paulhan (father)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nîmes
- Place of death
- Paris
- Father
- Frédéric Paulhan
- Occupation
- editor
- Employer
- Éditions Gallimard
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Portrait de Jean Paulhan en 1938.jpg
- Work location
- France
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- place of burial
- Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
- Commons category
- Jean Paulhan
- date of birth
- 1884-12-02
- date of death
- 1968-10-09
- pseudonym
- Lomagne
- name in native language
- Jean Paulhan
- writing language
- French
- start of work period
- 1917-01-01
- end of work period
- 1968-01-01
- place of detention
- La Santé Prison
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Jean Paulhan, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Paulhan ( French: [pɔlɑ̃]; 2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68) of the Académie française. He was born in Nîmes (Gard) and died in Paris.
The author Anne Desclos revealed that she had written the novel Story of O as a series of love letters to her lover Paulhan, who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Paulhan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.