Portrait of Pierre Emmanuel by
Willy Eisenschitz during World War 2.
Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916,
Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984,
Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.
His second wife, née Janine Loo (daughter of
C. T. Loo), died on April 23, 2013, at the age of 92. She is buried, with Pierre Emmanuel, in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (57th division).
Académie française
Pierre Emmanuel was elected to the
Académie française (French Academy) on April 25, 1968, succeeding
Marshal Juin. His official reception took place on June 5, 1969. After the election of
Félicien Marceau, whose collaborationist attitude he denounced, he resigned from the Academy in 1975 and ceased to sit. His colleagues, however, followed tradition by refusing to take note of this decision and respectfully waiting until his death to replace him with the election of medicine Professor
Jean Hamburger on April 18, 1985.
Works
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (for poetry) or "[year] in literature" article (for prose):