Georges Le Cardonnel

Georges Le Cardonnel was born on October 12, 1872 in Valence, Drôme, France.[1] His father, Louis Aimable Le Cardonnel, was an engineer.[1] His mother, Amély Joséphine Cumin, was the owner of a clothing shop.[1] His brother, Louis Le Cardonnel, was a Roman Catholic priest and poet.[1]

Le Cardonnel co-authored a book about contemporary French literature with Charles Vellay in 1905.[2] They based their study on the criticisms of Gaston Deschamps, Jean Ernest-Charles, Émile Faguet, and Charles Maurras, among others.[3] The book was a success, and it was re-edited three times.[1]

Le Cardonnel was the author of a novel, Les soutiens de l'Ordre in 1909.[1] By 1911, Le Cardonnel served on the editorial board of Paris-Journal, an arts review for which he reviewed the Orange Festival every year.[1] Meanwhile, he was a contributing critic in La Revue Universelle, Les Marges, Gil Blas, L'Opinion, among other reviews.[1] He served on the committee of the Prix Goncourt in 1932.[1]

Le Cardonnel supported Fernand Sorlot's decision to publish the French translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in France in 1934, even though Sorlot did not own the copyright.[1] At the beginning of World War II, Le Cardonnel worked for Agence Havas.[1]

Le Cardonnel married Madeleine Dehay in 1931.[1] He died on December 9, 1941 in Paris.[1] The bulk of his papers is held at the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet in Paris.[4]

• Le Cardonnel, Georges; Vellay, Charles (1905). La littérature contemporaines: Opinions des écrivains de ce temps. Paris: Société du Mercure de France. OCLC 319007.
• Le Cardonnel, Georges (1909). Les soutiens de l'Ordre. Paris: Mercure de France. OCLC 62415361.

• Gauthier, Serge (1989). Un écrivain valentinois Georges Le Cardonnel, 1872-1941. Valence. OCLC 495381301.