By force, of course, he had been thought to be immortal; Alas, the Brive writer Michel Peyramaure has just died at the age of 101, learned Le Point from his publisher, Philippe Robinet, director of Calmann-Lévy. We see him again, two years ago, signing his books standing, straight as an "i", at the Brive Book Fair, which he had been the initiator in 1973. Michel Peyramaure, born January 30, 1922, in Brive, was the writer with a hundred books. He published a new one every year with the regularity of a metronome, until the last Inventory before closing (Calmann-Lévy). "It is a tutelary figure of literature who leaves us, master of the historical novel, author of a monumental work of more than a hundred novels", underlines the Calmann-Lévy house.
“He had always refused to go up to Paris despite the solicitations, because he remained attached to Brive; he had never missed a Book Fair since the first edition, except last year when he was ill", underlines François David, general commissioner of the Brive Book Fair. Michel Peyramaure was also a pillar of L'École de Brive, a merry band of writers led by the publisher Jacques Peuchmaurd at Robert Laffont, with Claude Michelet, Denis Tillinac, Christian Signol, Yves Viollier, Jean-Guy-Soumy, who during decades have sold millions of copies of great popular sagas.
Epicurean, Republican, open-minded and curious, Michel Peyramaure received whoever wanted in his house in Brive, over a little whisky, and each visitor left with a book that he could choose from the writer's monumental library. He recently graced the cover of Le Point on "Lessons From Centenarians," posing for a photo at his home during his tai chi class. It's a life force that goes away... Where he will go, even if he didn't believe in heaven like them, sure that Michel Peyramaure will be able to find his companions of the pen and happy banquets Denis Tillinac and Claude Michelet.
