Thérèse Renaud

Thérèse Renaud (July 3, 1927 – December 12, 2005) was a Canadian actress and writer associated with Les Automatistes. She was also known as Thérèse Leduc.[1]

For the French alpine skier, see Thérèse Leduc (alpine skier).

She was born in Montreal. Renaud went to Paris in 1946 to study theatre. On her return to Montreal, she worked as a comedian and singer, appearing on radio and television. She returned to Paris in 1959 to work on her literary work. While there, she conducted interviews with people from the arts for Radio Canada. She worked as a professional astrologer for several years.[2]

In 1946, she published Les Sables du rêve, considered to be the first Automatist work.[3] Renaud was a signatory to the Refus Global in 1948.[2]

Renaud died in Paris at the age of 78.[4]

Personal life

She married the artist Fernand Leduc.[4]

Renaud came from a talent family. The choreographer Jeanne Renaud and the artist Louise Renaud were her sisters.[5] As well, her cousin, Estelle Mauffette, was a Quebec actress.[6]

Works[2]
  • Les Sables du rêve, poetry (1946)
  • Une mémoire déchirée, memoir (1978)
  • Plaisirs immobiles, prose and poetry (1981)
  • Subterfuge et sortilège, prose (1988)
  • Le choc d'un murmure, novel (1988)
  • Jardins d'éclats, poetry (1990)
  • N'être, poetry (1998)
  • Un passé recomposé. Deux automatistes à Paris. Témoignages 1946-1953, memoir (2004)
gollark: Well, I made *an* autotrader, not one everyone used.
gollark: It worked really well, until they banned it with no explanation for 6 months, and the actual "investment" functionality there is dead now anyway.
gollark: I think my most practical (in that it mostly works and performed a function you could barely describe as being maybe useful) project on github is the MemeEconomy Autotrader bot I wrote ages ago, to make excessive amounts of money on r/memeeconomy.
gollark: Oh, I see. Cool.
gollark: I don't know leafo.

References
  1. "Le cercle des automatistes et la différence des femmes" (PDF). L'Automatisme en Mouvement (in French). 34 (2–3). 1998.
  2. "Renaud, Thérèse" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  3. "The Automatists and the Book". Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949-1951.
  4. "Thérèse Renaud (1927-2005) - Hommage à une femme entière". Le Devoir (in French). December 28, 2005.
  5. "Early life and training, 1928-1946 (Jeanne Renaud)". Dance Collection Danse.
  6. Elspeth Cameron; Janice Dickin (January 1, 1997). Great Dames. University of Toronto Press. p. 126. ISBN 9780802072153. Retrieved October 7, 2019.


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