Edouard Estaunié

Edouard Estaunié (February 4th 1862 with Dijon - 1942 with Paris) is a novelist and engineer French.

Graduate of the Polytechnic school (Promotion 1882), of the Private school of political sciences and the University of telegraphy, his professional life is held within the Administration of the Stations and Télégraphes. Before starting its career of novelist, whom it can continue thanks to the spare time that leaves him its post of inspector of the Stations and Télégraphes, he is in particular director of the Vocational school Higher of the Stations and Télégraphes of 1901 to 1905.

He is elected member of the French Academy on November 15th, 1923.

He is regarded as the inventor of the word “Télécommunications”.

Novels

Most of its works were written in its country house of Saint-Julia-of-Fat-Capou in Haute-Garonne in the Lauragais.

  • Simple a (1888)

  • Good Lady (1892)
  • the Print (1896)
  • the Wreck , appeared in 1901, makes a part much bigger with the description of the landscape of the area of Saint-Julia, in whom is held the action of the novel.
  • secret Life (Prix Femina, 1908), whose action proceeds with the foot of Saint-Julia, in the plain of Revel. It speaks there about Déodat de Séverac, its neighbor of Saint-Felix-Lauragais which it has well-known.
  • Solitudes (1912)
  • the Things sees (1913)
  • the Rise of Mr. Baslèvre (1920)
  • the Call of the road (1921)
  • the Labyrinth (1921)
  • the Disabled person with the hands of light (1923) which recalls the life of his/her blind aunt who embroidered in the family home of Saint-Julia.
  • Silence in the countryside (1926)
  • Mrs Clapain . Editions: Memory of the book (2001)

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