Jacques Le Clercq (1898–1972)

Birth: Jun. 27, 1898, Austria
Death: Aug. 30, 1972
New York, USA

Son of Dr. Frederic Schuman LeClercq of Paris and Margaret Hart of New York. [He was named in honor of his godfather, the French President George Clemenceau with whom his parents had close ties.]

Jacques (Jack) Georges Clemenceau LeClercq married Edith Whittemore (1895-1985) of Saint Louis, Missouri on 28 Jun 1928. Their daughter was the internationally famous ballerina, Tanaquil LeClercq. By 1930, Jack was a Professor at Columbia University in New York.

During WWI he had served in the US Army, and during WWII he served with the Office of War Information in New York and France. He later became professor of French Literature and Romance Languages at Queens College, a post from which he eventually retired. Scholar, author, and translator of a number of literary works, he also wrote poetry under the pen name Paul Tanaquil.

Books:
LeClercq, Jacques. 1928. Show cases: by Jacques Le Clercq. New York: Macy-Masius.

LeClercq, Jacques. 1926. A Sorbonne of the hinterland. New York: L. MacVeagh, Dial Press.

LeClercq, Jacques. 1955. Love poems from the Greek anthology. Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press.

Translations:
Dumas, Alexandre, Jacques LeClercq, Norman Price, and E. C. Van Swearingen. 2000.Three Musketeers / by Alexandre Dumas; translated and abridged by Jacques LeClercq, illustrations by Norman Price and E.C. Van Swearingen. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.

Wast, Hugo, Louis Imbert, and Jacques Georges Clemenceau LeClercq. 1928. Stone desert, by Hugo Wast [pseud.] translated from the Spanish by Louis Imbert and Jacques LeClercq. New York: Longmans, Green and Co.

Rabelais, François, and Jacques LeClercq. 1944. The five books of Gargantua and Pantagruel in the modern translation of Jacques Le Clercq. New York: Modern Library.

Delteil, Joseph, and Jacques LeClercq. 1928. Lafayette. New York: Minton, Balch & Co.