11 Facts About Paul Guth

Paul Guth was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Academie des provinces francaises.

Paul Guth wrote about fifty works on various subjects, ranging from straight history to personal anecdotes, never holding back in criticism of contemporary failings.

Paul Guth was born in Ossun on 5 March 1910 to a family of modest means.

Paul Guth's parents used to live in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, but his mother, a bigourdane, gave birth to him at her family's hometown of Ossun, in the canton of Hautes-Pyrenees.

Paul Guth studied literature in Paris, where he passed his agregation in 1933, and pursued an ordinary academic career until the Second World War.

Paul Guth was a teacher for ten years at schools in Dijon and Rouen, as well as at Janson de Sailly in Paris.

Paul Guth won the Prix du Theatre in 1946 for Fugues.

In 1953, Paul Guth published Les Memoires d'un Naif, a bestseller which was to be the first in a series of seven volumes.

The works of Paul Guth include a romantic four-volume series, Jeanne la Mince, published between 1960 and 1969: Jeanne la mince, Jeanne la mince a Paris, Jeanne la mince et l'amour, and Jeanne la mince et la jalousie.

Paul Guth spends many dissipated years in Paris, and completes her sentimental education before finding love in the arms of the journalist Paul Bagnac.

In 1988, Paul Guth attacked a section of the Left in Oui, le bonheur, where he explored passions, indignations, and recipes for happiness.