He was one of the great feathers of the historical novel. 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”writes the publishing house on Twitter. “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 closing and received the grand prize of the Society of People of Letters for all of his work.greets the editor.
Author of a hundred books, Michel Peyramaure was also known for having founded in the 1980s, with his friends from Corrèze Claude Michelet and Denis Tillinac, the School of Brive, a movement in line with 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. (the Christmas Orange, the Cathar Passion, the Prisoners of Cabrera, the Novel of the Crusades…), alongside biographies of illustrious characters, often romanticized, 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.