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Madeleine-Yvonne Sarcey(1869-1950) was a French woman of letters and philanthropist, founder of the Annales University and mother of Pierre Brisson.

Tomb of the Sarcey and Brisson families in the Montmartre cemetery(division 2).

When Adolphe died in 1925, she assumed the interim management of the journal. In 1945, she revived it, as well as the conferences, and died in 1950 6. His university survived him until 1971.

Summary

1	Biography 2	writings 3  References 4	Appendices 4.1	Bibliography 4.2	external links

Biography

Daughter of the writer and critic Francisque Sarcey and Madeleine Varnier, she married the August 21, 1889 Adolphe Brisson 2 who resumed, in 1903, at the death of his father Les Annales politiques et littéraires :Madeleine actively collaborated in this periodical which at that time drew more than a hundred thousand copies 3 .In January 1907, it organizes a cycle of high-quality, free and secular conferences, which it calls “university of the Annales”, and launches the Journal of the university of the Annales, a monthly containing the texts of the conferences; in 1919, the medium became Conferencia, which she directed for several decades 4. During the First World War, with the army surgeon Raoul-Pierre Baudet, she founded the work of "Clear Houses", refuges intended to shelter child victims of the conflict and to "prevent children predisposed to tuberculosis from living in the neighborhood of contagious or in poor hygienic conditions” ;it will be recognized as being of public utility in 1917 5.

Tomb of the Sarcey and Brisson families in the Montmartre cemetery(division 2).

When Adolphe died in 1925, she assumed the interim management of the journal. In 1945, she revived it, as well as the conferences, and died in 1950 6. His university survived him until 1971.

She signed some of her columns “Cousine Yvonne”.

She was named Commander of the Legion of Honor onMarch 21, 19347. She is buried with her father and her husband in the cemetery of Montmartre(division 2).

The actress Martine Sarcey is her great-niece.

Writings

La Route du bonheur,Librairie des Annales politiques et littéraires, 1909— on Gallica [archive].

The Legends of Greek and Roman Mythology, Annales University,1910-1911.

Madame de Coulène[pseud.], To defend yourself against the high cost of living: 300 new recipes and practical advice, Les Annales,1911.

To live happily, Arthème Fayard, [1913?].

My War Book,1914-1915 ,Annales University,1914.

References

" ark:/36937/s005afd5ff3125e0" [archive], under the name BRISSON Madeleine(consulted on February 12, 2022)

Register of marriage certificates of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Year 1899,f°84,act n°714.

IMEC Archives of Political and Literary Annales [archive]

Notice from the General Catalog[archive],BNF.

Official Journal of the French Republic, October 17,1917,p.8211.

Obituary [archive] by Émile Henriot, Le Monde, April 17, 1950.

" Cote 19800035/7/857 " [archive], Léonore database, French Ministry of Culture.

Appendices

Bibliography

Gérard Bauër, For the fiftieth anniversary of the Annales and the the of Yvonne Sarcey, Jacques Doucet/INHA literary library.

External links

Authority records :Virtual International Authority File International Standard Name Identifier National Library of France(data) University documentation system Royal Library of the Netherlands National Library of Poland WorldCat Id

Photographic portrait [archive], BSP