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Henriette Charasson
Born	6 January 1884 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France
Died	24 December 1972(1972-12-24) (aged 88) Châteauroux, Indre, France
Other names	Orion
Spouse	René Johannet

Henriette Charasson (6 January 1884 – 24 December 1972) was a French author of Catholic themes who was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Biography

Charasson was born on 6 January 1884 in Le Havre, France.

During World War I, Charasson joined the Action Française. She wrote for La Croix and L'Action Française on several occasions under the pseudonym Orion, which increased her notoriety in intellectual and masculine nationalist circles. She later became a contributor for La Dépêche tunisienne as a literary critic for twenty-five years.

Upon reading the works of Charles Maurras, Charasson expressed that her belief in God was awakened. She said: "For me, I repeat, encountering the works of Charles Maurras, who is not a believer, was my first step on the road to Damascus." Her marriage in 1920 to the journalist René Johannet led to her eventual conversion to Catholicism. After the condemnation of Action Française by the Pope Pius XI in 1926, Charasson turned away from the movement.

She died on 24 December 1972 on Châteauroux, France.

Publications

Awards

Charasson's honors are from the Académie Française:

• Prix Montyon in 1921
• Prix Fabien in 1925
• Prix d'Académie in 1929, 1935 and 1942
• Prix Paul-Hervieu in 1933
• Prix d'Aumale in 1939
• Prix Alice-Louis Barthou in 1947
• Prix Véga et Lods de Wegmann in 1955 and 1960
• Prix Broquette-Gonin in 1963
• Prix Valentine de Wolmar in 1969

References

1. "Nomination archive – Henriette Charasson". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
2. Jacques Prévotat , "The Catholic circles of Action française", in L'Action française: culture, society, politics, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9 , read online) p. 157–172
3. "Poésie Grande Guerre". pgg.parisnanterre.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
4. ^ Marty, Albert (1968). L'Action française racontée par ellemême (in French). Nouvelles Editions Latines. ISBN 978-2-7233-0325-5. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
5. ^ Bruno Dumons , "L'Action française au feminine: Networks and figures of activists at the beginning of the 20th century", in L'Action française: culture, society, politique, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9 , read online) p. 229–241

External links

• Jean Rousselot. Dictionary of contemporary French poetry 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier-Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris

• 1884 births
• 1972 deaths
• People from Le Havre
• French women poets
• French dramatists and playwrights
• French Roman Catholic writers
• Converts to Roman Catholicism
• Writers from Le Havre