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Paul Acker

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Paul-Théodore Acker
Paul Acker
Born(1874-09-14)September 14, 1874
Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France
DiedJune 27, 1915(1915-06-27) (aged 40)
Thann, Haut-Rhin, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist

Paul-Théodore Acker (14 September 1874 – 27 June 1915) was a French-language writer of popular novels.[1]

Biography

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Birthplace in Saverne

Paul Acker was born on 14 September 1874 in Saverne.

A journalist, he contributed to Le Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris, Revue des deux Mondes, L'Illustration, Revue de Paris, and Revue critique des idées et des livres.

On 27 June 1915, he was killed in a car accident while on military service near the Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on 11 August 1922. A memorial stele was erected in his memory by the Souvenir français in Goldbach.[2] Charles Maurras paid him posthumous tribute in his book Tombeaux and mentioned his membership in the Action française.[3]

Selected works

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  • Dispensé de l'Article 23 (preface by Willy, illustrated cover by Charles Léandre), 1898, H. Simonis-Empis
  • Un mari sans femme, 1902, Librairie Molière
  • Petites confessions. Visites et portraits, 1905
  • La Petite Madame de Thianges, 1906, Calmann Lévy
  • Le Désir de vivre, 1907, Calmann Lévy
  • Œuvres sociales des femmes, 1908, Plon-Nourrit Read online
  • Le Soldat Bernard, 1909, Fayard
  • Les Exilés, 1911, Plon (several editions until 1920)
  • Le Beau Jardin, 1910, Plon (several editions until 1919)
  • Une ville industrielle alsacienne: Mulhouse, 1912
  • Les deux cahiers, 1912, Plon-Nourrit Read online
  • Les deux amours, 1914
  • Les Demoiselles Bertram, 1914, Plon-Nourrit
  • Trois tombes, 1916, Plon-Nourrit
  • L'Oiseau vainqueur, 1916, Flammarion
  • Entre deux rives, 1917, Plon
  • Colmar : une ville alsacienne, 1919, Éd. de la Haute-Alsace
  • Tante Babiole - Collection Stella [volume & issue needed]
  • Les Deux Cahiers - Collection Stella [volume & issue needed]
  • Les Exilés - Select-Collection [volume & issue needed]
  • Les Exilés, preface by Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Éditions Laborintus, Lille-Paris, 2016, ISBN 979-10-94464-12-0

Distinctions

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN 978-2-8682-0988-7.
  2. ^ "Site du Souvenir français". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  3. ^ Maurras 1921.

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Henry Bordeaux, Trois tombes. (La Prière pour les absents. Max Doumic. Paul Acker. Maurice Deroure. Les Honneurs aux morts.), Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1916, XIII-291 p.
  • Alphonse Wollbrett, "Paul Acker", in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 1, p. 13.
  • Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN 978-2-8682-0988-7..
  • Maurras, Charles (1921). "Paul Acker et Fabrice Cléret". Tombeaux. Nouvelle Librairie nationale. pp. 69–71.