Marcelle Auclair

Marcelle Auclair was born 11 November 1899 in Montluçon, central France, and died in Paris on 6 June 1984.

name=rougeron05>"AUCLAlR (Marcelle), née à Montluçon le 11 novembre 1899; fille du précédent.... Marcelle Auclair a publié des biographies: La Vie de Sainte Thérèse d'Avila (1950), La Vie de Jean Jaurès (1954), ... Décédée à Paris le 6 juin 1983" (p. 265). In: {{cite book |title=Histoire de Commentry et des Commentryens

|last=Rougeron |first=Georges |authorlink=:fr:Georges Rougeron |year=1987

|pages=

|location=|publisher=Editions des Cahiers bourbonnais |oclc=462200016

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ircfAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=}} (285 pages).

She was the daughter of the architect Victor Auclair and his wife Eugénie Rateau.

She spent part of her childhood and youth in Chile, where her father settled in 1906 to participate in the country's reconstruction after a devastating earthquake. She did her schooling in Santiago (Chile), where she also learned Spanish and English while reading French authors.

Returning to France in 1923, she married the writer Jean Prévost (m. April 28, 1926), with whom she had three children (Michel, Françoise, and Alain).

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|last=Merwin |first=William Stanley |authorlink=W. S. Merwin |year=2005

|location=Emeryville, CA |publisher=Shoemaker & Hoard |isbn=1-59376-072-8

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxpKoUVfXlsC |accessdate=}}{{rp|21}}

They divorced in 1938.{{rp|318}}

Auclair published biographies of two Roman Catholic saints, Teresa of Avila (1950){{cite book

|title=La vie de Sainte Thérèse d'Avila, la Dame Errante de Dieu

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1950

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=4154440}} (493 pages) and Bernadette of Lourdes (1957).{{cite book

|title=Bernadette

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1957

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Blond et Gay |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=1956348}} (284 pages) She also published biographies of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whom she knew personally (1968),

name=biolorca>{{cite book

|title=Enfances et mort de Garcia Lorca

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1968

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=598851}} (477 pages){{cite journal |author=David K. Loughran |year=1975

|title=Untitled [review of Enfances et mort de Garcia Lorca, by Marcelle Auclair]

|journal=Modern Language Notes|volume=90 |issue=2 |pages= 320–321

|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |jstor= 2906877 |doi= 10.2307/2906877 |issn=0026-7910}} and of the early 20th century pro-peace French socialist Jean Jaurès (1954).{{cite book

|title=La Vie de Jean Jaurès, ou, La France d'Avant 1914

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1954

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=4444343}} (673 pages)

Auclair's first original publicationEarlier, in 1917, she is credited with having presented a 16-page paper, Heredia: Conferencia leída en la Biblioteca Nacional {{OCLC|55386568}} (16 pages). was Transparence, a book of original poetry in Spanish, published when she was 20 years old, and living in Santiago, Chile.

name=transparence>{{cite book |title=Transparence |language=Spanish

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |others=Illustrations by Laureano Guevara. Prologue by Paulino Alfonso |year=1919 |pages=

|location=Santiago de Chile |publisher=Imprenta universitaria |isbn= |oclc=55322025

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUCQGwAACAAJ |accessdate=}} (95 pages).

Another early publication, in French, was Auclair's novel, Toya, published in 1927.Toya, {{OCLC|7646823}}

In 1937, Auclair and Jean Prouvost founded the fashion magazine Marie Claire.

name=touret05>"Avec Jean Prouvost, Marcelle Auclair fonda « Marie-Claire » magazine féminin inspiré des magazines américains.... Décédée à Paris le 6 juin 1983, elle est inhumée dans l'Essonne auprès de son père" (p. 318). In: {{cite book |title=Destins d'Allier: 1945-2000: population et économie, les grands événements et l'évolution de l'opinion, portraits

|last=Touret |first=André |authorlink= |year=2005

|pages=

|location=|publisher=Éditions Créer |isbn=978-2-84819-058-7 |oclc=2418285

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wB1QeiHuzp0C |accessdate=}} (351 pages).

name=leenaerts10>"Lancé por Jean Prouvost en 1937, le principal acteur de ce renouvellement porte le (prè)nom Marie Claire. Placèe sous la direction de Marcelle Auclair et de Pierre Bost, cette publication qui recourt volontiers au ton de la confidence, s’adresse à l’ensemble des femmes et non plu à la seule bourgeoisie." (p. 65). In: {{cite book |title=Petite Histoire Du Magazine Vu (1928-1940): Entre Photographie D'Information Et Photographie D'Art

|last=Leenaerts |first=Danielle |authorlink= |year=2010

|pages=

|location=Bruxelles |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-90-5201-585-9 |oclc=690329730

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BelmCwTcbFcC |accessdate=}} (403 pages).

Auclair wrote many articles for Marie Claire, extending over a period of several years. In A History of Private Life (1991),

name=prost91>Antoine Prost (1991). "Public and Private Spheres in France". In: {{cite book |title=A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times

|last=Prost |first=Antoine |authorlink=:fr:Antoine Prost |author2-link=:fr:Gérard Vincent|author2=Gérard Vincent |others=Translation by Arthur Goldhammer |year=1991

|pages=1–143

|location= Cambridge, MA |publisher= Harvard University Press |isbn=0-674-40004-6

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8Wn1wUm4UIC |accessdate=}}. Translation of Histoire de la privée. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987. writing about Auclair's time as a columnist for the magazine Marie Claire, Antoine Prost stated that

{{quote|

Columnists such as Marcelle Auclair, Marcelle Ségal, and Ménie Grégoire, who answered readers’ letters, became confessors to the nation. New moral authorities, they dispensed intimate advice to millions every week.{{rp|138}}

}}

In the 1950s, Auclair published two popular books on how to lead a happy life, Le bonheur est en vous (1951) and La Pratique du bonheur (1956).Le bonheur est en vous (1951) and La Pratique du bonheur (1956).

In 1953, Auclair published a French-language children's book about the life of Jesus.{{cite book

|title=La Bonne Nouvelle annoncée aux enfants

|others=Illustrations by Jacqueline L. Gaillard

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1953

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=458544529}} (126 pages)

The book was republished in English translation in both the US{{cite book

|title=The Little Friends of Jesus

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1954

|others=Translation by Mary Gehr

|location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Chicago, Henry Regnery Co. |edition=

|isbn=|page= |url= |oclc=3684033}} (93 pages). Translation of La bonne nouvelle annoncee aux enfants

and the UK.{{cite book

|title=The Good News told to Children

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1954

|others=Illustrations by Jacqueline L. Gaillard

|location=London, UK |publisher=Burns & Oates |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=52073421}} (125 pages)

Auclair's translation of the complete works of Teresa of Avila from Spanish to French was first published in 1964.Teresa of Avila, Oeuvres complètes (Marcelle Auclair, trans.). First edition, in one volume (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1964): Œuvres complètes {{OCLC|490121140}} (1177 pages). Fifth edition in two volumes (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2007): Oeuvres complètes, vol. I, {{ISBN|978-2-220-05871-9}}, {{OCLC|470554927}} (pp. 605 pages); vol. II, {{ISBN|978-2-220-05890-0}}, {{OCLC|470797319}} (pp. 610-1177).

At age 78, five years before her death, Auclair published an autobiographical work with her daughter, actress Françoise Prévost.{{cite book |title=Mémoires à Deux Voix

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |author2-link=Françoise Prévost (actress)|author2=Françoise Prevost |year=1978

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition= |isbn=978-2-02-004872-9 |page=

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vy0nAAAAMAAJ |oclc=4521893}} (429 pages)

In European Literary Heritage,"Marcelle (Auclair)" (pp. 279-280) in: {{cite book |title=Patrimoine littéraire européen: anthologie en langue française

|last=Polet |first=Jean-Claude |authorlink=:fr:Jean-Claude Polet |year=2000

|pages=279–280

|location=Bruxelles |publisher=De Boeck Université |isbn=978-2-8041-3162-3

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMiBr43VDOMC&dq=%22Marcelle+Auclair%22+femme&pg=PA279 |accessdate=}} (600 pages) (vol 13 of Patrimoine littéraire européen: anthologie en langue française, published 1992-2000, {{ISSN|0779-4673}}, {{OCLC|28010160}})

Auclair was described as "particularly attached to moral issues and the situation of women in the contemporary world [particulièrement attachée aux problèmes moraux et à la situation de la femme dans le monde contemporain]."{{rp|279}}

• {{cite book

|title=Saint Teresa of Avila

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1988

|others=Translation by Kathleen Pond

|location=Petersham, MA |publisher=St. Bede's Publications |edition=Reprint; Originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1953

|isbn=978-0-932506-67-2 |oclc=18292197}}(457 pages)

::*French original: {{cite book

|title=La vie de Sainte Thérèse d'Avila, la Dame Errante de Dieu

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1950

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=4154440}} (493 pages)

::*German translation: {{cite book

|title=Das Leben der Heiligen Teresa von Avila |language=German

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1953

|location=Zurich, Switzerland |publisher=Die Arche; Schweizer Volks-Buchgemeinde |edition=

|isbn=3-7160-1040-5 |page= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXIvAAAACAAJ |oclc=601152104}} (491 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=Bernadette, 1858-1958

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1958

|others=Translation by Kathryn Sullivan

|location=Purchase, NY |publisher=Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart |edition=1st English

|isbn=|page= |url= |oclc=4443930}} (204 pages)

::*French original: {{cite book

|title=Bernadette

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1957

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Blond et Gay |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=1956348}} (284 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=Christ's Image

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1961

|others=Translation by Lionel Izod

|location=New York |publisher=Tudor |edition=

|isbn=|page= |url= |oclc=894701}} (139 pages)

::*French original: {{cite book

|title=Images du Christ

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1957

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions Sun |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=459435674}} (144 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=Le bonheur est en vous

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1951

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=1028450}} (218 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=La Vie de Jean Jaurès, ou, La France d'Avant 1914

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1954

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=4444343}} (673 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=La pratique du bonheur

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1956

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=27379363}} (200 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=Enfances et mort de Garcia Lorca

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1968

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=598851}} (477 pages)

::*Spanish translation: {{cite book

|title=Vida y Muerte de García Lorca |language=Spanish

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1972 |author2=Federico García Lorca|author2-link=Federico García Lorca |others=Translation by Aitana Alberti

|location=México, D.F. |publisher=Ediciones Era |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=889360}} (411 pages). Includes excerpts from García Lorca's works.

• {{cite book

|title=Mémoires à Deux Voix

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |author2-link=Françoise Prévost (actress)|author2=Françoise Prevost |year=1978

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition= |isbn=978-2-02-004872-9 |page=

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vy0nAAAAMAAJ |oclc=4521893}} (429 pages)

• {{cite book

|title=La Bonne Nouvelle annoncée aux enfants

|others=Illustrations by Jacqueline L. Gaillard

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1953

|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=458544529}} (126 pages)

::*English edition (US): {{cite book

|title=The Little Friends of Jesus

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1954

|others=Translation by Mary Gehr

|location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Chicago, Henry Regnery Co. |edition=

|isbn=|page= |url= |oclc=3684033}} (93 pages). Translation of La bonne nouvelle annoncee aux enfants

::*English edition (UK): {{cite book

|title=The Good News told to Children

|last=Auclair |first=Marcelle |authorlink= |year=1954

|others=Illustrations by Jacqueline L. Gaillard

|location=London, UK |publisher=Burns & Oates |edition=

|isbn= |page= |url= |oclc=52073421}} (125 pages)

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