For the 16th-century architect and mathematician from Savoy, see Jacques Perret

Jacques Perret

Jacques Perret was a French architect in the service of the Catholic King Henry IV of France. He was a Huguenot, from the Savoie.In July of 1601, he published a sequence of 22 plates, engraved by Thomas de Leu, and a textual commentary, Des Fortifications et Artifices Architecture et Perspective...

Jacques Perret (September 8, 1901, Trappes

Trappes

Trappes is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center in the new town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.-Transport:...

, Yvelines

Yvelines

Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.-History:Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application from 26 February 1965.It gained the...

 - December 10, 1992) was a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 best known for his novel Le Caporal Épinglé (1947), which tells the story of his captivity in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and of his escape attempts. This novel would later be adapted into a film

The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal is a 1962 French film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.Renoir shot his film in Austria in 1961 from Jacques Perret's book based on his own prisoner of war experiences...

 by famous French director Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...

 in 1962. Perret was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story

Academy Award for Best Story

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940.-1920s:...

 for the film The Sheep Has Five Legs

The Sheep Has Five Legs

The Sheep Has Five Legs is a 1954 French film directed by Henri Verneuil. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story.- Cast :*Fernandel as Édouard Saint-Forget / Les quintuplés : Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré...

(1954).

Works

Chronicles

• 1953 Bâtons dans les roues, Gallimard
• 1954 Cheveux sur la soupe, Gallimard
• 1957 Salades de saison, Gallimard
• 1964 Le villain temps, Le Fuseau
• 1980 Un marché aux puces, Julliard

Novels

• 1936 Roucou,Gallimard
• 1937 Ernest le rebelle, Gallimard
• 1947 Le caporal épinglé, Gallimard
• 1948 Le vent dans les voiles,Gallimard
• 1951 Bande à part, Gallimard
• 1953 Mutinerie à bord, Amiot-Dumont
• 1961 Les biffins de Gonesse, Gallimard
• 1969 La compagnie des eaux, Gallimard

Short stories

• 1947 l’Oiseau rare, Gallimard
• 1949 Objets perdus,Gallimard
• 1951 la Bête Mahousse,Gallimard
• 1953 Histoires sous le vent, Gallimard
• 1955 Le machin, Gallimard
• 1981 Tirelires,Julliard

Memories

• 1975 Grands chevaux et dadas, Gallimard
• 1976 Raisons de famille, Gallimard
• 1980 Un marché aux puces, Julliard
• 1982 Belle lurette, Julliard
• 1985 Le jardin des Plantes, Julliard

Various

• 1964 Preface to Rabelais's Pantagruel
  Gargantua and Pantagruel
  The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father and his son and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein...
  
  , Gallimard
• 1965 Rapport sur le paquet de gris, Aspects de la France
• 1979 Preface to Alexandre Vialatte's C'est ainsi qu'Allah est grand, Julliard
• 1964 Trois pièces (Maximilien, Monsieur Georges, Caracalla), Editions Gallimard (plays)
• 1989 Les collectionneurs, Le Dilettante
• 1991 Articles de sport, Julliard
• 1992 Comme Baptiste...ou les tranquillisants à travers les âges, Le Dilettante
• 1996 François, Alfred, Gustave et les autres, Le Dilettante
• 2004 L'aventure en bretelles, followed by Un Blanc chez les Rouges, Le Dilettante
• 2005 Chroniques, Arcadia Editions