Jerome Tarot (real name of Ernest Tarot - fr. Jérôme Tharaud, Ernest Tharaud , May 18, 1874, Saint-Junyang, Haute-Vienne, France - January 28, 1953, Paris) - French writer, Goncourt Prize winner (1906, together with his brother Jean Tarot ). Member of the French Academy .
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| Birth name | Ernest Taro |
| Date of Birth | May 18, 1874 |
| Place of Birth | Saint-Junien , Haute-Vienne , France |
| Date of death | January 28, 1953 (78 years) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Occupation | writer |
| Years of creativity | 1898 - 1951 |
| Genre | story, novel, essay |
| Language of Works | French |
| Awards | Goncourt Prize ( 1906 ) Big Literary Prize of the French Academy (1919) |
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Jerome Tarot, like his brother Jean, was born in the Limousin region . They were christened Ernest and Charles. Subsequently, Charles Peguy ( Fr. Charles Péguy ) invited them to change their names and call themselves Jerome and Jean (in honor of the Apostle and Evangelist John . When the brothers' father died in 1880 , the mother moved with her children to her father, the director of the Angouleme Imperial Lyceum.
Jerome Tarot studied first at this lycée, and then at the Paris College of Saint Barb. In 1896 he entered the competition for the department of literature of the Higher Normal School ( Fr. École normale supérieure ).
Having received an education, in 1899 he occupied the post of teacher at the University of Bucharest [1] , and in 1903 he returned to France and became a professional writer.
Having failed as a candidate member of the French Academy in 1923 and losing to Abel Bonnard in the competition for Le Goffik’s place in 1932 , Jerome Tarot became an academician on December 1, 1938 , gaining nineteen votes to five from Fernand Greg and changing his chair number 31 to Joseph Bedier . On January 18, 1940, Georges Duhamel handed over this chair to Jerome Tarot. In the book La Vieille Dame du quai Conti (“The Old Lady from the Conti Embankment”), the historian Le Duc de Castries ( fr. Le Duc de Castries ) writes that Jerome Tarot’s candidature first caused academic doubts because, strictly speaking, this writer nothing more than the "half of the author." In the end, they settled on the fact that Jerome would be elected first in the ranks of academicians, and later, when there would be an opportunity, Jean.