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Roger Boutet de Monvel (4 December 1879 – 25 December 1951)[1] was a French writer of historical studies and magazine articles on fashion and other topics.

Roger Boutet de Monvel
Roger Boutet de Monvel recuperating from injuries received in the trenches of World War I, late 1915
Born(1879-12-04)4 December 1879
Paris (France)
Died25 December 1951(1951-12-25) (aged 72)
Paris (France)
NationalityFrench
OccupationWriter
Drawing by Maurice Boutet de Monvel for Roger Boutet de Monvel's 1904 article Children's Costumes in the Nineteenth Century.
Drawing by Maurice Boutet de Monvel for Roger Boutet de Monvel's 1904 article "Children's Costumes in the Nineteenth Century".

Biography


Born in the 4th arrondissement of Paris,[1] Roger Boutet de Monvel was the oldest son of Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1850–1913), a painter and illustrator of children's books.[2] His brother was Bernard was also an artist.[2] He was raised in Paris and in Nemours, where his maternal grandparents owned a house.[3]:34–35 He often served as a model for his father; for example, his silhouette appears in his father's illustrations for Anatole France's Nos enfants, which also has an entire chapter about him.[3]:33

After he finished his education, Boutet de Monvel took a position as secretary to the director of the Imprimerie nationale.[2] He began publishing articles in the early 1900s, at first usually in collaboration with his father or brother.[3]:75 His first major work, a historical study entitled Les variétés (The Variety Shows), was published in 1905 by Plon, which would remain his publisher for most of his career.[2] Later historical studies took as their themes the upper social classes of France, the life of St. Francis of Assisi, and the writers Lord Byron and Miguel de Cervantes.[2]

In 1911, he took a job at the Carnavalet Museum in conservation.[2]

He joined the armed forces during the First World War but was discharged early on due to a leg injury.[2] Beginning in 1917, he published several books with war-related themes, including Carnet d'un permissionnaire (Notebook from a Soldier on Leave, 1917), Le bon anglais (The Good Englishman, 1918) and Nos frères d'Amériques (Our American Brothers, 1918).[2]

Something of a dandy,[2] Boutet de Monvel was engaged with the fashion industry in various ways. In 1912, he began writing for the Gazette du Bon Ton, a leading fashion magazine of the day, and shortly became a regular contributor.[2] In 1915 he attended the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco as a representative from the French fashion industry.[2] The following year, he wrote promotional copy for designer Paul Poiret.[2] After the war, he returned to writing about fashion in Gazette du Bon Ton as well as in magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Monsieur.[2]

He died in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on Christmas Day 1951.[1] He left a set of unpublished memoirs that he had been working on since the late 1930s.[2]


Works



References


  1. "Archives numérisées - Paris.fr". canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  2. Addade, Stéphane-Jacques. "Roger Boutet de Monvel". Stéphane-Jacques Addade website.
  3. Addade, Stéphane-Jacques. Bernard Boutet de Monvel. Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 2001.



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Roger Boutet de Monvel, né le 4 décembre 1879 dans le 4e arrondissement de Paris[1] et mort le 25 décembre 1951 dans le 7e[1], est un mémorialiste français.



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