[ALAIN-FOURNIER] RIVIERE (Jacques) - Lot 1

[ALAIN-FOURNIER] RIVIERE (Jacques) Born in Bordeaux. 1886-1925. Man of letters, director of La Nouvelle Revue française. Friend of Alain-Fournier, with whom he exchanged abundant correspondence, he became his brother-in-law through his marriage to his sister Isabelle. L.A.S. "Jacques Rivière" to "Cher Monsieur" [writer Louis Artus]. S.l.n.d. [Tuesday] 1 p. 3/4 in-8. ... I'm going to send you a copy of Alain-Fournier's Miracles, for which your solicitude, when you were working on the Larousse collection, touched me so much...Son of a leading Bordeaux doctor, Jacques Rivière befriended Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) on the benches of the Lycée Lakanal, in Sceaux, where both were preparing for the entrance exam to the École normale supérieure. On August 24, 1908, he married Alain-Fournier's younger sister, Isabelle (1889-1971), and they had two children. Initially a contributor to L'Occident, he became editorial secretary of the Nouvelle Revue française in 1911. Mobilized in 1914 with the 220' infantry regiment, he was taken prisoner on August 24, as soon as the first skirmishes broke out. Seriously ill, he was transferred to Switzerland in 1917 and interned until the end of the war. In the aftermath of the conflict, he considered relaunching the NRF, whose publication had been interrupted. Under his new management, it reappeared in June 1919. Rivière showed remarkable skill in publishing Marcel Proust, François Mauriac, Paul Valéry and Louis Aragon. In 1919, he received the Blumenthal Prize. He wrote only one short psychological novel, Aimée, published in 1922. After his death, his wife Isabelle devoted herself to publishing his works, along with those of his brother Alain-Fournier. Louis Artus (1870-1960) was a French writer.