Georges Bayard (1918–2004)
Autore di Michel et la falaise mystérieuse
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Georges Bayard
Cécile et les bas-rouges 1 copia
Un casse-tête pour Cécile 1 copia
Michel fait du vol à voile 1 copia
Michel et le trésor perdu 1 copia
Michel mousquetaire 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bayard, Georges Achille Émile
- Altri nomi
- Travelier, Georges
Decrest, Jean-Pierre - Data di nascita
- 1918-03-20
- Data di morte
- 2004-10-08
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- France
- Nazione (per mappa)
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Amiens, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
- Luogo di morte
- Montélimar, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Soyans, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Istruzione
- École normale d'instituteurs d'Amiens
- Attività lavorative
- Teacher (1952-1988)
Writer
children's book author
novelist
translator
young adult writer (mostra tutto 7)
historical novelist - Relazioni
- Marandet, Louise (wife)
- Breve biografia
- Georges Bayard was born in Amiens, France, and spent his childhood in the small town of Corbie in the Somme region. He studied at the École normale d'instituteurs d'Amiens (Normal School for Teachers, Amiens), from which he graduated in 1937. At the start of World War II, he was mobilized by the French Army as a reserve officer. During the German Occupation, he worked for the French Resistance and rejoined the regular army in 1944. For his outstanding service, he was awarded the 1939-1945 War Cross and the Resistance Medal. Bayard left the army in 1952 with a diploma in English interpreting, and became a teacher, first in the north, then in the western Paris suburbs of Hauts-de-Seine, where he would spend the rest of his career. His wife, Louise Marandet, an artist-painter, also taught there. It was while working as a teacher that Bayard began his prolific writing career. He started by contributing stories and articles to periodicals for young people, and published a translation of five Simon Black adventure novels by Australian author Ivan Southall. Bayard followed this with his first two books, the historical novels La Chanson du capstan and Amérique an mille. In 1958, he began publishing his Michel series for a teenage audience, which became hugely popular and one of the longest-running young adult series in modern French literature with 39 titles. He had additional success with his César and Cécile series. Bayard also published a few novels for adults under the pseudonyms of Georges Travelier and Jean-Pierre Decrest. He retired in 1988 and moved to Soyans in the Drôme region, where he had a second home. Several of the Michel novels were adapted into a French television movie in 1989.
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Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 49
- Utenti
- 160
- Popolarità
- #131,702
- Voto
- 2.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 64
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
Michel does a rally was written by Georges Bayard in 1975 as part of the Michel series. This is a mystery book. Fifteen-year-old Michel, his cousin Daniel, his friend Arthur race in a rally from Paris to Rome on a 1898 “Tacot” called the Grasshopper. Unfortunately, Arthur is captured when the car breaks down and is repaired at a car museum and more mysterious mishaps like burning much more fuel than usual happen on the way to Rome. The mishaps are caused by several people. This book was first published by Librarie Hachette in one of its subcategories, the Green Library.… (altro)