The master of the historical novel, author of more than a hundred books translated into fifteen languages, died on Saturday at the age of 101, according to his Calmann-Lévy publishing house.
Master of the historical novel, author of more than a hundred books, the historian Michel Peyramaure died at the age of 101, Calmann-Lévy editions announced on Saturday.
“It is a tutelary figure of literature who is leaving us”, indicates the publishing house on Twitter.
And to add: “master of the historical novel, author of a monumental work of more than a hundred novels. Very attached to his city of Brive, he had recently published ‘Inventory before closure’ and received the grand prize of the Société des gens de lettres for all of his work”.
Founder of the School of Brive
With his friends from Corrèze Claude Michelet and Denis Tillinac, he founded the School of Brive in the 1980s, a movement in the tradition of the popular novel of the 19th century.
He is also at the origin, with others, of the Brive Book Fair, which has become an unmissable literary event.
This asserted provincial published at the frantic pace of two to three times certain years. His novels are mostly historical (Christmas Orange, The Cathar Passion, The Prisoners of Cabrera, The Romance of the Crusades…), alongside biographies of illustrious people, often fictionalized, in particular Joan of Arc, Henri IV, Napoleon and Sarah Bernhardt.
Translated into fifteen languages, he has also authored children’s books and local guides.