Paul Reboux, man in a busy square

Biography

Paul Reboux is the son of milliner Caroline Reboux.
Also a painter, he is a prolific writer with a wide range of interests: editor, literary critic, food critic, novelist, author of natural history books, biographies, travelogues, and children's books.
In the style of...
Reboux initially wrote pzstiches with his friend Charles Müller; together they published three series of In the style of... (1908, 1910, and 1913). Charles Müller having died in 1914, he published a fourth collection in 1925 and a fifth in 1950, in which the pastiches of Jean Paul Sarthe are placed alongside those of Jean Giono, Boris Vian, and Henry de Montherlant.
These collections gently mock the literary tics of writers such as Octave Mirbeau, Leo Tolstoy, and others. The last reissue dates from 2003, but certain authors deemed insufficiently well-known by today's public (notably Gyp) have been eliminated from these reissues.
In the preface he wrote for the collection À la manière de by the columnist Georges Armand Masson, Paul Reboux clearly and at length describes the golden rules that govern the writing of a good pastiche. This process was also used by Jean Louis Curtis in several of his books, such as Haute École, China Worries Me, and France Exhausts Me.
Other Activities
From 1922 to 1923, Paul Reboux was the editor-in-chief of a humorous illustrated monthly magazine, which used the formula of the butter dish, entitled La Charrette Charrie. In 1928, he was a founding member of the Académie des Gastronomes. In 1933, he chaired, with Mr. Gaston Gérard, the "League of One Hundred Thousand" for the "Defense of Good Food," created in Paris in 1928. He collaborated under his own name with the magazine Paris Sex-Appeal from 1933 onward.
In 1951, he was one of the founders, alongside Felicien Challaye and Émile Bauchet, of La Voie de la paix, an organ of the National Committee for Resistance to War and Oppression (CNRGO, which became the Pacifist Union of France in 1961).
He also produced several paintings in a naive style with a humorous twist. Large painting of a heavily built man in a busy square
Oil on panel, signed lower right
Dimensions: 46cm x 38cm (18" x 15") excluding frame
Montparnasse frame
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