{{short description|French poet}} thumb|upright|Gilbert Prouteau in 1992 {{MedalTop}} {{MedalSport | Art competitions}} {{MedalBronze | 1948 London | Lyric works}} {{MedalBottom}}
'''Gilbert Prouteau''' (14 June 1917 – 2 August 2012)<ref>{{cite news|title=L'écrivain Gilbert Prouteau est mort ce jeudi à l'âge de 95 ans|url=http://www.ouest-france.fr/region/paysdelaloire_detail_-L-ecrivain-Gilbert-Prouteau-est-mort-ce-jeudi-a-l-age-de-95-ans_3723-2101456_actu.Htm|publisher=ouest france.fr|language=French|date=2012-08-02|accessdate=2012-08-04|archive-date=2012-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808235535/http://www.ouest-france.fr/region/paysdelaloire_detail_-L-ecrivain-Gilbert-Prouteau-est-mort-ce-jeudi-a-l-age-de-95-ans_3723-2101456_actu.Htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a French poet and film director. He was born in Nesmy, Vendée. In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Rythme du Stade" ("Rhythm of the Stadium").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920392 |title=Gilbert Prouteau |work=Olympedia |accessdate=21 August 2020}}</ref> At the beginning of the 1990s he was, with Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the writers contributing to the French magazine ''L'Amateur d'Art''.
==Selected works==
* ''Rythme du Stade'', Lugdunum, 1942 (poems) * ''La part du vent'', Ariane, 1947 (poems) * ''Anthologie des textes sportifs de la littérature'', Défense de la France, 1948 * ''Saison blanche'', Amiot Dumont, 1951 * ''Le Sexe des Anges'', Grasset, 1952 * ''La peur des femmes'', Grasset, 1959 * ''Immortelle Vendée'', Les productions de Paris, 1959 * ''Retour aux sources'', Editions Hérault, 1960 * ''Les Dieux meurent le matin'', Grasset, 1962 (A collection relating the tragic deaths of ten poets). * ''Le machin'', La Table Ronde, 1965 * ''Tout est dans la fin'', Robert Laffont, 1971 * ''Comme un vol de corbeaux'', La Table Ronde, 1977 * ''Le Dernier Défi de Georges Clemenceau'', France Empire, 1979 * ''Le grand roman de Jules Verne: sa vie'', Stock, 1979 * ''Sept morts d'amour'', Hachette, 1981 * ''Les miroirs de la perversité'', Albin Michel, 1984 * ''La Nuit de l'île d'Aix ou le Crépuscule d'un dieu'', Albin Michel, 1985 * ''Gilles de Rais ou la Gueule du loup'', Editions du Rocher, 1992 * ''La bataille de Cholet ou la guerre en sabots'', Editions du Rocher, 1993 * ''Le fabuleux secret de l'alchimiste : Nicolas Flamel prophète ou imposteur'', Bartillat, 1994 * ''Je te dis qu’il faut vivre'', Editions Hérault, 1998 * ''Monsieur l'instituteur'', Albin Michel, 2000 * ''Victor Hugo vendéen'', Mosée, 2002 * ''Les Soleils de minuit'', Editions Hérault, 2003 * ''Rabelais en Vendée'', D'Orbestier, 2004 * ''Les Orgues d’Hélène'', Écho Optique, 2007 (poems) * ''Le Roman de la Vendée'', Geste, 2010 * ''Les mots de passe'', Editions du Petit Pavé, 2013
==Filmography==
* ''La Vie passionnée de Georges Clemenceau'' (1953) * ''Dieu a choisi Paris'' (1969), with Jean-Paul Belmondo
==Further reading== * Chastagnol, Jean, ed. (1980). ''Le Roman d'un rebelle, Gilbert Prouteau''. Paris: Diffusion De Vecchi. {{isbn|978-2-8625-2024-7}}.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070307104645/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=PROUTGIL01 Profile] *{{IMDb name|id=0698982}}
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