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Gaston Cherau (Niort, 1872 - Boston, 1937) is a journalist and French man of letters.

• Son of an industrialist, he was born on November 6, 1872 in Niort, and died April 20, 1937 at Boston (United States) during a lecture tour.

• Journalist and columnist, he regularly delivers his travel prints to the press.

In 1911 he traveled for the newspaper The Morning the Tripolitania conquered by the Italians.

In 1914 it is reporter newspaper war The Illustration in Belgium and Northern France.

• Fertile novelist of the province, his pen is heavily influenced by the Berry where he had family roots, stayed part of his childhood, and returned assiduously on vacation in a second home until the end of his life.

• He is elected a member of theAcadémie Goncourt in 1926.

• He also became interested in cinema composing the film dialogues The Two Worlds (1930) Directed by Ewald Andreas Dupont.

Generous Epicurean, he prefaced the History of Cognac by Robert Delamain (Paris, Stock, 1935), archaeologist and writer from an old family of brandy merchants in Jarnac, whose younger Jacques (1874-1953), author among others of "Portraits of birds" (Stock, 1938 and 1952) was the brother-in-law of the writer Jacques Boutelleau (1884-1968), dit Chardonne.

He has written a few children's works, such as Jacques Petitpont, King of Madagascar (J. Ferenczi, 1928, ill. d'Avelot), The Abduction of the Princess (Hachette, 1934, ill. André Pécoud ) or Gascony Tales & Stories (Nelson Illustrated Library, 1938, ill. Georges Dutriac)1.

Georges Bernanos called it "Maupassant sub-prefecture"", as he had not voted for the End of night travel of Louis-Ferdinand Céline when price Goncourt 1932 (Le Figaro, December 13, 1932).

André Billy, nor the 13 December 1882 to Saint-Quentin and died the 11 April 1971 to Fountain Bleau, is a writer French.

It comes at theAcadémie Goncourt in 1943, applying for the headquarters of Champion Stone, died June 1942. But his election, obtained in 1943, was only validated in 1944: in December 1943, a minority of academics (J.-H. Young Rosny, René Benjamin, Sacha Guitry, Jean de La Varende) refuse to endorse Billy's election (preferred to Paul Fort, reputed anti-Semitic). Billy had notably exhausted in his writings Guitry and La Varende, and refused any collaboration. In 1944, the National Writers Committee excludes four members of this academy from its bosom: Guitry, Benjamin,Jean Ajalbert and La Varende. In December, a campaign of France-Soir vilifies the Goncourt Academy and its members. Billy's choice will be validated on23 December 1944

André Jacquemin, born in Spinal1 the September 3 1904 and died at Paris the September 18 1992, is an painter and engraver French.
Member of theAcademy of Fine Arts, he was a student of Waltner and Jean-Paul Laurens to theSchool of Fine Arts of Paris.

In 1929, André Jacquemin founded, along with eleven other engravers, the Society of Contemporary Engraving and in 1936 obtained the Grand Prix national des arts, awarded for the first time to an engraver. In 1937 he depicted French engraving at the Venice Biennale.

In 1953 he became curator of the International Museum of Imaging and Departmental Museum of the Vosges to Spinal. His wife passed away in 1991.

He is owed nearly a thousand prints, many book illustrations (among others, The Bird of Jules Michelet for Les Bibliophiles de France).
His works appear in several French and foreign museums.

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