{{Short description|French writer and journalist (1906–1981)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 27 July 1906 | birth_place = Perpignan, France | death_date = {{d-da|18 April 1981|27 July 1906}} | death_place = Menucourt, France | other names = | occupation = Novelist<br/>Journalist<br/>president of the International Federation of Film Press. | years_active = | spouse = | signature = }}
'''Louis Chauvet''' (27 July 1906 in Perpignan – 18 April 1981 in Menucourt) was a 20th-century French writer and journalist, winner of the 1953 prix Interallié.
== Biography == The son of the regionalist historian Horace Chauvet, Louis Chauvet became a journalist at ''Temps'', ''{{ill|Comœdia (journal)|fr|3=Comœdia (journal)|lt=Comœdia}}'', and ''Le Figaro'' where he mainly worked in the film department. In this capacity he was the president of the International Federation of the Film Press.<ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/10941906/louis_chauvet/ Notice d'autorité de Louis Chauvet] on the site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.</ref> Also a novelist, he was awarded the 1953 Prix Interallié published by Fammarion for ''L'Air sur la quatrième corde''.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
== Works == * 1977: [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/louis-chauvet ''L'Été d'osseja''], la Pensée Universelle, Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) * 1965: ''La "poïétique" de Paul Valéry'' * 1961: ''Le Cinéma à travers le monde'' (essai) cowritten with Jean Fayard and Pierre Mazars * 1956: ''La Petite Acrobate de l'Helvétia'' * 1953: ''L'Air sur la quatrième corde'' — Prix Interallié * 1950: ''Le porte-plume et la camera'' * 1949: ''Furieusement tendre'' * 1928: ''Les Sports et le droit pénal. Discours prononcé à la séance solennelle de réouverture de la Conférence des avocats stagiaires, le 14 janvier 1928''
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/louis-chauvet Louis Chauvet] on the site of the Académie française * [http://books.openedition.org/pur/31115?lang=fr Louis Chauvet, Critique des Mouches et défense de Zeus] on Openédition books
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