La Hire, Jean de

Adolphe Celestin-Ferdinand d'Espie ( Adolphe Célestin Ferdinand d'Espie ) was born in the family of Count Celestine d'Espy and Marie Mayol, sister of the famous sculpture Aristide Mayol . After the death of his father, he inherited the count title. He studied at the Jesuit College in Beziers for 10 years, from where he brought out deep anti-clerical sentiments. At the age of 20, he comes to Paris , where he settles down first as a secretary, and then as a "black man" with the writer Colette . After a while, he becomes a reporter for the Le Matin newspaper and begins his own writing career.

He takes the name of the pen Jean-de-La-Hyr , in admiration for the famous words of Etienne de Vignolles, said La Hire, a companion of Jeanne d'Arc: “Lord, do for La Hira what you would like, La Hire” will do for you if you were La Hire and if La Hire was God. "Count Jean de La Gere also" a descendant of [this] companion Joan of Arc "2.

In 1898, he published in Edmond Girard her first novel 3, Flesh and Spirit , through Peter Luys.

Until 1908, he published more than twenty novels, such as the unheard of Hero and Leander, published in Marseille with a portrait of the writer Ripple-Ronai (1900), The Tomb of the Virgin (1900), La Torera. (1902), The Hell of a Soldier (1903), and those that he published at Offenstadt. He also turned to the publishing house and founded the Independent Library on November 15, 1904 4 under his real name Adolf-Ferdinand Celestine d'Espy. He sells this publisher in less than a year, and then selects a general-purpose bookstore. from July 1905 to June 1906. After a biographical study of Colette in 1905, he published La Roue fulgurante in 1906. He described the wheel that sucks at home "like dead leaves on a fast train."

• Her regiment. Roman / Per. with fr. N. L .; J. Delair. - St. Petersburg , 1905. - 320 p .;

• Hobbies of the Queen ( Les Amours de la reine ). Roman Jean de la Gere / Per. with fr. Ek. Umanets . - St. Petersburg , 1908. - 75 p .; 23 cm. Free. adj. to the journal. " Historical Bulletin ." 1908, v. 114, Oct.-Dec.

• Hobbies of the Queen ( Les Amours de la reine ) / Jean de La Gere; Per. with fr. Leonid Chersky . - St. Petersburg : Snowdrop , 1908. - 88 p .; 18 cm

• Iktaner and Moiset ( L'Homme Qui Peut Vivre dans l'Eau ). Fantastic novel in 3 parts; / Jean de la Hire; The magazine "Light", St. Petersburg , 1911. Volume 7.

• Torero ( La Torera ). Spanish novel / Jean de la Hire. - St. Petersburg : type. “Printed Work”, 1911. - 189 p. ; 18 cm

• Mystery XV ( Le Mystère des XV ). A novel . Per. with fr / Jean de la Ir. - St. Petersburg : Tipo-lit. t-va "Light", 1912. - 222 p. ; 23 cm. - (Light: Collection of novels and novels. Monthly. Journal; T. 6).

• Wheel of Fire ( La roue fulgurante ). The latest science fiction novel . / Per. Vika. - St. Petersburg : Saturn, 1908.

• Sparkling Wheel ( La roue fulgurante ). Unprecedented adventures on earth and in the air of captain Jose Mendes . In 7 parts. - Moscow: printing house of P.V. Beltsov, 1908.

• Treasure in the abyss. A novel . / Jean de la Ir. - St. Petersburg : Light, 1912.

• 500! ( Au-delà des Ténèbres ) // Newspaper, Paris . 60 issues from June 1, 1926 to August 4, 1927.

• The machine of will (Kaitar) // newspaper " Renaissance ", Paris , April-May 1929

• Authoritative record of MFN .
• Bibliography of Jean de La Ira on the site " Laboratory of fiction ."