Author: Ryvoire, Christine de (1921-2019) ; aka Christine de Rivoyre
Title: Original Photograph of Christine de Rivoyre Mounted on a Presentation Board with Attached Raised Letters. First Edition
Description: Paris: circa 1950. Photograph 24 x 18cm. mounted on mauve boards with applied yellow raised lettering, 31 x 21 cm. Part of "C" in first name missing. Christine de Rivoyre was born on 29 November 1921 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. She was a writer, known for Les Sultans (1966), La mandarine (1972) ..Carrière : Etudiante à l’université de Syracuse aux Etats-Unis (1947-49), Journaliste au quotidien le Monde (1950-55), Directrice littéraire du magazine mensuel Marie-Claire (1955-66), Romancière, Membre du jury du prix Médicis (depuis 1970), Membre du Haut comité de la langue française (1969),,,Christine de Rivoyre, the pen name of Marie Christine Denis de Rivoyre, was born in Tarbes, in southern France. She spent part of her youth in various garrison towns to which her father François Denis de Rivoyre, a cavalry officer, was posted. She attended Catholic schools and then received a degree in English literature and American civilization from the Sorbonne. She won a scholarship to study journalism at Syracuse University in New York. This American stay would later inspire several of her novels: La Tête en fleurs (The Head in Flowers, 1960), La Glace à l'ananas (Pineapple Ice Cream, 1962), and Le Voyage à l'envers (The Journey Upside Down, 1977). Back in Paris, she worked for some time as a press secretary for the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, having met its founder-choreographer Roland Petit through her cousin. Also at this time, she began interviewing English and American artists for Le Monde, and then became literary editor for Marie Claire... In 1966, she left Marie Claire to devote herself to her writing and only returned to journalism occasionally, notably for L'Express, Her first novel, L'Alouette au miroir (The Lark in the Mirror), published in 1955, received the Prix des Quatre Jurys and the Prix Max-Barthou in 1956 from the Académie française. Several of her subsequent novels were also adapted into films, including. .
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Title: Original Photograph of Christine de Rivoyre Mounted on a Presentation Board with Attached Raised Letters. First Edition
Description: Paris: circa 1950. Photograph 24 x 18cm. mounted on mauve boards with applied yellow raised lettering, 31 x 21 cm. Part of "C" in first name missing. Christine de Rivoyre was born on 29 November 1921 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. She was a writer, known for Les Sultans (1966), La mandarine (1972) ..Carrière : Etudiante à l’université de Syracuse aux Etats-Unis (1947-49), Journaliste au quotidien le Monde (1950-55), Directrice littéraire du magazine mensuel Marie-Claire (1955-66), Romancière, Membre du jury du prix Médicis (depuis 1970), Membre du Haut comité de la langue française (1969),,,Christine de Rivoyre, the pen name of Marie Christine Denis de Rivoyre, was born in Tarbes, in southern France. She spent part of her youth in various garrison towns to which her father François Denis de Rivoyre, a cavalry officer, was posted. She attended Catholic schools and then received a degree in English literature and American civilization from the Sorbonne. She won a scholarship to study journalism at Syracuse University in New York. This American stay would later inspire several of her novels: La Tête en fleurs (The Head in Flowers, 1960), La Glace à l'ananas (Pineapple Ice Cream, 1962), and Le Voyage à l'envers (The Journey Upside Down, 1977). Back in Paris, she worked for some time as a press secretary for the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, having met its founder-choreographer Roland Petit through her cousin. Also at this time, she began interviewing English and American artists for Le Monde, and then became literary editor for Marie Claire... In 1966, she left Marie Claire to devote herself to her writing and only returned to journalism occasionally, notably for L'Express, Her first novel, L'Alouette au miroir (The Lark in the Mirror), published in 1955, received the Prix des Quatre Jurys and the Prix Max-Barthou in 1956 from the Académie française. Several of her subsequent novels were also adapted into films, including. .
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Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5408
- Book number: 16-5408
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