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Le Chevalier de la Barre
Jamais édité en volume, Le Chevalier de la Barre est le premier feuilleton
historique publié par Michel Zevaco dans Le Journal du Peuple. Accusé de
sacrilège, condamné sur de faux témoignages pour servir d’exemple, torturé et
exécuté en 1766 à l’âge de 19 ans, le véritable chevalier de la Barre fut le
«héros» de l’une des causes célèbres âprement défendues par Voltaire et
Diderot. Ce champion de la laïcité, réhabilité lors de la Révolution, ne pouvait
que plaire à l’anticlérical convaincu qu’était Zevaco. Il mêle donc ici les
ingrédients de ce qui deviendra sa «marque de fabrique»: un personnage et un
arrière-plan historiques; une victime, homme ou femme, entraînée dans une
cascade d’effroyables malheurs, généralement ourdis par un adversaire farouche – ici un prêtre
odieux! – s’acharnant à provoquer sa perte au fil d’épisodes rythmés par les rebondissements et
les coups de théâtre incessants.
Préface de Bruno Bayon.
historique publié par Michel Zevaco dans Le Journal du Peuple. Accusé de
sacrilège, condamné sur de faux témoignages pour servir d’exemple, torturé et
exécuté en 1766 à l’âge de 19 ans, le véritable chevalier de la Barre fut le
«héros» de l’une des causes célèbres âprement défendues par Voltaire et
Diderot. Ce champion de la laïcité, réhabilité lors de la Révolution, ne pouvait
que plaire à l’anticlérical convaincu qu’était Zevaco. Il mêle donc ici les
ingrédients de ce qui deviendra sa «marque de fabrique»: un personnage et un
arrière-plan historiques; une victime, homme ou femme, entraînée dans une
cascade d’effroyables malheurs, généralement ourdis par un adversaire farouche – ici un prêtre
odieux! – s’acharnant à provoquer sa perte au fil d’épisodes rythmés par les rebondissements et
les coups de théâtre incessants.
Préface de Bruno Bayon.
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First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Michel Zévaco
464 books146 followersMichel Zevaco (also written as Zévaco) was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist.
Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.
Zevaco's famous cloak and dagger novels Les Pardaillan, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success. Yet he is today quite unknown, in spite of the new interest aroused by popular literature.
A former school teacher, then an officer, he became a militant journalist, who wrote for various revolutionary newspapers, of anarchist tendency. He became famous mainly for the part he played in the anti-clerical struggles at the end of the 19th century. Then, as a writer of serial novels, he published works which had a great success in Jean Jaurès' daily La Petite République, and he became appointed serial writer for Le Matin from 1906 to his death.
His already well-established popularity was made even greater by his promising beginnings as a film-director in 1917. His novels first published by Fayard and Tallandier were republished several times and adapted for the screen; the latest paperback edition only gives a mutilated version, and is impaired by many cuts.
He is remembered as the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'Hôtel Saint Pol and Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels, but also published novels related to his times. Some of his serials have not yet been published
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Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.
Zevaco's famous cloak and dagger novels Les Pardaillan, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success. Yet he is today quite unknown, in spite of the new interest aroused by popular literature.
A former school teacher, then an officer, he became a militant journalist, who wrote for various revolutionary newspapers, of anarchist tendency. He became famous mainly for the part he played in the anti-clerical struggles at the end of the 19th century. Then, as a writer of serial novels, he published works which had a great success in Jean Jaurès' daily La Petite République, and he became appointed serial writer for Le Matin from 1906 to his death.
His already well-established popularity was made even greater by his promising beginnings as a film-director in 1917. His novels first published by Fayard and Tallandier were republished several times and adapted for the screen; the latest paperback edition only gives a mutilated version, and is impaired by many cuts.
He is remembered as the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'Hôtel Saint Pol and Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels, but also published novels related to his times. Some of his serials have not yet been published
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July 29, 2022
Quel roman incroyable! C’est le troisième livre de Zévaco que j’ai lu, et maintenant, Zévaco est un de mes auteurs préférés, comme Alexandre Dumas. Dans ce livre, Jean de la Barre est amoureux de Fleur-de-Mai, une belle fille qui lui aime. Cependant, l'archiprêtre, Gerfaut, est jaloux, car il adore Fleur-de-Mai, et sa vengeance horrible commence. Pendant ce temps, Salvère cherche sa fille - et il sait que Gerfaut sait ce qu'elle est devenue. C’est un livre typique de Zévaco, un roman de cape et d'épée, et c’est impossible d'arrêter de lire. Zévaco nous montre l’hypocrisie de l’église et l’importance de l’amitié.
February 22, 2024
Un supplice littéraire.
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