André Berry - Les expériences amoureuses - Les Idylles - 1946

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André Berry - The amorous experiences - Paris, Société des éditions Denoël, 1946 - 322 pp. - 12 x 19 cm.

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André Berry is a French writer and poet born in Bordeaux on August 1, 1902 and died in Paris (16th arrondissement) on October 7, 1986.

Son of a manager at the Compagnie Transatlantique, he comes from a Bordeaux family from the Chartrons district on his mother's side. He studied at Rollin then Condorcet high schools. Having a license and a higher studies degree in English, he becomes a teacher and teaches in middle schools of Calais (1922), Arras (1923), then at the Lycées Charlemagne (1926), Voltaire and Saint-Louis (1928-67) in Paris. In 1949, he defends a Doctorate in letters on Pey de Garros (Gascon).

Throughout his life, this great traveler published an original body of work including poetry, novels, translations, etc. In 1982, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, the city of Bordeaux organized a major exhibition at the Municipal Archives. Jacques Chaban-Delmas pays tribute to "Berry the Bordelais, Berry the Aquitain, Berry the citizen of the universe" in the introduction. He stood for the French Academy on January 25, 1962 in the seat of Émile Henriot (to which Jean Guéhenno was elected) and on April 30, 1964 in the seat of Jean Cocteau (he obtained 6 votes against 18 for Jacques Rueff).

He writes about Quinsac, where he spent his childhood: “Your modest town, making me its honorary citizen, has given me a great honor and pleasure (...) such is the truth that the ground our first steps trod remains for each of us a sacred, magical land, whose flowers, whose fruits are more precious in our eyes than all other flowers, than all other fruits.”. He is buried in Quinsac, where the commune erected a bust in his honor.

Under the pseudonym Alban Darbaud, he wrote erotic texts and short stories, including Le Vagabond libertin, in 1957, published by Éditions du Scorpion. (cf. Wikipedia)