Stateless person
Chapter 3: Naturalization
In 1938, after two attempts in 1930 and 1935, Irène Némirovsky presented a new application for naturalization, with the support of André Chaumeix, the new director of the Revue des deux mondes, and Jean Vignaud, president of the Société des Gens de Lettres. Relaunched in September 1939, the process did not succeed.
Letter of recommendation from Andr Chaumeix attached, request for naturalization, November 30, 1938.
© Fonds Irène Némirovsky / IMEC
1938
12 March : Nazi Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss). What a strange time we are living. War, logically, seems to be everything pr. (Work Logs, 1938/IMEC)
30 September: France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany sign the Munich Agreement.
November 9: In Germany, the Nuit de Cristal marks a brutal escalation of antis mitism
November 12: In France, a constitution limits the accession of foreign nationals and nationalizes it, hardening the situation for foreign nationals.
1930, f vrier-mars
The right-wing press wants to believe that David Golder is a pamphlet: Alone, a Jewess could write about the Jewish folly of gold an article as terrible and as clairvoyant. (Andr; Billy, La Femme de France) Part of the press; isra lite; castigates David Golder, a figure from the Jewish for moth-proof (Pierre Paraf, L'Illustration juive). Ir ne N mirovsky, who recognized that he had written a social satire, will always split with any understanding: Do the bourgeois of the Marais think of identifying with the people in the milieu of Francis Carco? Why, then, do the French Isra lites want to be in David Golder? Disproportion is the same. (Interview, L'Univers isra lite, July 5, 1935) Ir n mirovsky should postpone her request for French naturalization, for fear that it will make it easier for her to receive the Goncourt Prize and will tarnish the truth of her success.
1935, July
In an interview given in the French version of The Universe, Ir and Mirovsky acknowledged his wrongs ("It is all true, certain that if there had been Hitler, I would have greatly softened David Golder") and said: "Every time I had the opportunity, I was clam; even though I was Jewish, I proclaimed it to myself!" I am much too far gone to have ever sung, to disown him.
1939
September 1: German troops invade Poland. Jean Vignaud is trying to restart the procedure for naturalizing the Epstein lice, to no avail.
September 3: France and England declare war; Germany. On behalf of Mrs. Mitaine, Denise and Lisabeth are sent to her home by the mother of Cile Michaud, a nanny. Until May 1940, Ir ne N mirovsky multiplied the round trips between Paris and Issy.
