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Frantz Jourdain was the architect of the "Samaritaine" department store and the president of the artistic "Salon d'Automne". He was initially well known on the score of his commitment towards artistic associations and of his writings. He wrote as a critic — salon's reviews, polemical articles... - and as a writer - short stories, novel, theater... His writings witness his knowledge of the artistic background, but also the influence of his "naturalist" friends such as Daudet, Zola and Goncourt. His autobiographie work - his novel L'Atelier Chantorel : mœurs d'artistes, and several other short stories — testifies the intricacy of Frantz Jourdain's links with architecture and architects. He was an ardent supporter of his art through his writings and buildings, but he severely judged his colleagues. Beyond the quality of his writings as a polemist, Frantz Jourdain gives us a rare testimony on the architectural stakes of his time.
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Paul Bourget, A committed writer, Yehoshua Mathias.In the France of the early twentieth century, Paul Bourget's figure is that of a successful novelist who became gradually a «committed author». A monarchist, deeply conservative, passionate defender of religion and the family as the vital bases of the social order, he thus became the bard of the bourgeois ethic faced with the destabilization of modernity.