Eugène Tavernier

File:Eugène Tavernier (1854–1928).png

Eugène Tavernier

Adolphe-Eugène Tavernier (22 September 1854 – 28 August 1928) was a French journalist, writer and trade unionist.

Biography

Eugène Tavernier was born in Tours. He was the nephew by marriage of Louis Veuillot, founder of L'Univers, as well as his secretary and biographer. He himself was a journalist for the publication when he joined the French Union of Journalists, at an initial meeting held on 10 February 1886 at the offices of the Society of Catholic Worker Circles. It was then proposed to create the association under the title ‘Association of Christian Journalists and Publicists’ and the articles of association were drawn up. However, objections eventually led to it being called the ‘Corporation of Christian Publicists, Union of French Journalists and Writers’ instead. The participants met again on 29 April 1886. They elected an executive committee. Among them was Jules Cornély, a journalist with the daily Le Gaulois. Victor de Marolles was elected president. Several dozen members joined from all over France.

From 1894, he taught journalism at the Lille law faculty, including legislation, history and ethical practices. Thirty years later, the Superior School of Journalism of Lille was founded by Paul Verschave (1878–1947) on the same premises. The Superior School of Journalism of Paris, the first French journalism school, was founded in 1899 by the American novelist and journalist Jeanne Weill (alias ‘Dick May’), sister of the historian Dominique Weill, with the help of several journalists, Henry Fouquier, Jules Cornély, Adolphe Brisson and Jules Claretie, and the support of the sociologist Émile Durkheim, on the model of the journalism schools set up in the United States in the 1880s.

In 1895, the ‘Corporation of Christian Publicists, Union of French Journalists and Writers’ decided to split into two sections: the press and books. The articles of association recorded the foundation that year of the French Union of Journalists (136 members) and a French Union of Writers (62 members), which became the Catholic Union of Writers, of which Victor de Marolles was elected president in 1904, replaced in 1913 by Victor Taunay, who had to resign two years later for health reasons. In 1915, René Bazin was elected president of the Corporation and the Writers' Union, a position he held for eight years.

Eugène Tavernier died at the 17th arrondissement of Paris aged 73.

Works

Major publications

• La cause provençale et Frédéric Mistral: à propos des fêtes de Montpellier (1875)
• La renaissance provençale et Roumanille (1884)
• Des raisons d'espérer (1893)
• Du journalisme: son histoire, son rôle politique et religieux (1902)
• La morale et l'esprit laïque (1903)
• La religion nouvelle (1905)
• Le Modernisme (1912)
• Louis Veuillot. L'homme, le lutteur, l'écrivain (1913)
• Cinquante ans de politique. L'Oeuvre d'irréligion (1925)

Selected articles

• "Le mouvement littéraire provençal et les Iles d'Or (lis Isclo d'Or) de Frédéric Mistral," Le Correspondant (1876)
• "Le roi Giannino," Mémoires de l'Académie d'Aix (1881)
• "M. de Quatrefages," Revue biblique, Vol. I (1892)
• "Vadimir Soloviev," La quinzaine, No. 146 (1900)
• "Tolstoï," Le Correspondant (1910)

Translations

• Vladimir Solovyov, Trois entretiens (1916)

External links

• Works by Eugène Tavernier at Gallica
• Works by Eugène Tavernier at Open Library