Gilbert Prouteau

Olympic medal record
Art competitions
	1948 London	Lyric works

Gilbert Prouteau (14 June 1917 – 2 August 2012) 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").At the beginning of the 1990s, he was, with Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the renowned writers of the French magazine, L'Amateur d'Art.

Bibliography (partial)

• Rythme du Stade, Lugdunum, 1942 (poems)
• Le Sexe des Anges, Grasset, 1952
• Les Dieux meurent le matin, Grasset, 1962 (A collection relating the tragic deaths of ten poets).
• 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
• 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
• Je te dis qu’il faut vivre, 1998
• Monsieur l'instituteur, 2000
• Les Soleils de minuit, 2003
• Rabelais en Vendée, 2004
• Les Orgues d’Hélène (poems), 2007
• Le Roman de la Vendée, 2010

Filmography

• La Vie passionnée de Georges Clemenceau (1953)
• Dieu a choisi Paris (1969), with Jean-Paul Belmondo

External links

• Profile
• Gilbert Prouteau at IMDb