\u00ab\u00a0Quand j\u2019ai cr\u00e9\u00e9 la F\u00eate du Livre en 1986, on avait pris trois parrains st\u00e9phanois\u00a0: l\u2019acad\u00e9micien Jean Guitton et les \u00e9crivains Charles Exbrayat et Maurice Denuzi\u00e8re\u00bb, se souvient Jacques Plaine, le libraire \u00e0 l\u2019origine de l\u2019\u00e9v\u00e8nement litt\u00e9raire st\u00e9phanois. \u00abAvec ce dernier, nous avions cr\u00e9\u00e9 les \u201cBabets d\u2019or\u201d (NDLR\u00a0: le troph\u00e9e remis aux laur\u00e9ats des prix litt\u00e9raires de Saint-\u00c9tienne a port\u00e9 ce nom de 1986 \u00e0 2001).\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n
Maurice Denuzi\u00e8re s\u2019est \u00e9teint le 2\u00a0novembre \u00e0 Dijon, dans sa centi\u00e8me ann\u00e9e, mais Jacques Plaine n\u2019a appris son d\u00e9c\u00e8s que vendredi. <\/p>\n
Le romancier a \u00e9t\u00e9 enterr\u00e9 jeudi, dans l\u2019intimit\u00e9, au cimeti\u00e8re de Montmartre. N\u00e9 le 29\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1926 \u00e0 Saint-\u00c9tienne, Maurice Denuzi\u00e8re \u00e9tait un grand reporter devenu \u00e9crivain\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Apr\u00e8s neuf ans \u00e0 France-Soir , sous la direction de Pierre Lazareff, et seize ans au journal Le Monde , \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque d\u2019Hubert Beuve-M\u00e9ry, il avait quitt\u00e9 le journalisme en 1978 pour se consacrer exclusivement \u00e0 son m\u00e9tier de romancier\u00a0\u00bb, selon Jacqueline Vals-Denuzi\u00e8re, son \u00e9pouse et collaboratrice.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Il \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s attach\u00e9 \u00e0 Saint-\u00c9tienne\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
Auteur d\u2019une quarantaine d\u2019ouvrages (nouvelles, essais, r\u00e9cits historiques, romans humoristiques\u2026), Maurice Denuzi\u00e8re a \u00e9crit plusieurs fresques historico-romanesques dont les six volumes de Louisiane (1977-1987) au succ\u00e8s international. <\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Fid\u00e8le \u00e0 ses origines, il avait m\u00eame \u00e9crit un conte sur le football ( Alerte en St\u00e9phanie ), se rappelle sa veuve. Il \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s attach\u00e9 \u00e0 Saint-\u00c9tienne m\u00eame s\u2019il s\u2019en \u00e9tait \u00e9loign\u00e9 il y a longtemps.\u00a0Il avait quitt\u00e9 la ville en 1952 ou 1953\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n
Maurice Denuzi\u00e8re avait re\u00e7u plusieurs prix litt\u00e9raires dont le prix Claude-Farr\u00e8re (1961) et le prix italien Bancarella (1980)\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0S\u2019il n\u2019a rien publi\u00e9 apr\u00e8s Montvert-les-Bains (1996), fresque historique de l\u2019Europe \u00e0 la Belle \u00c9poque, il n\u2019a cess\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9crire tout au long de ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Il \u00e9tait en train de terminer un roman\u00a0\u00bb, pr\u00e9cise Jacqueline Vals-Denuzi\u00e8re. Plusieurs de ses \u0153uvres ont aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 port\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cran, notamment les t\u00e9l\u00e9films Louisiane (par Philippe de Broca, en 1984) et Un Chien de saison (1981).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0Quand j\u2019ai cr\u00e9\u00e9 la F\u00eate du Livre en 1986, on avait pris trois parrains st\u00e9phanois\u00a0: l\u2019acad\u00e9micien Jean Guitton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9653],"tags":[1111,11,2430,1687,7539,1777,674,3326,1011,27,2410,3367,12,25,4001,7538],"class_list":{"0":"post-536438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-saint-etienne","8":"tag-actu","9":"tag-actualites","10":"tag-auvergne-rhone-alpes","11":"tag-culture-loisirs","12":"tag-edition-loire-sud","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-fete-locale","16":"tag-fr","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-livres-bd","19":"tag-loire","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-republique-francaise","22":"tag-saint-etienne","23":"tag-saint-etienne-ville"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115554928849604495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}