Background
Chevalier, Haakon Maurice was born on September 10, 1901 in Lakewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of Emile and Therese (Roggen) Chevalier.
Chevalier, Haakon Maurice was born on September 10, 1901 in Lakewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of Emile and Therese (Roggen) Chevalier.
1 son, Jacques Anatole.
; 1 son, Jacques Anatole. Married Barbara Lansburgh, 1931 (division 1950). Children—Suzanne Andree, Haakon Lazarus.
Married Carol Lansburgh, 1952;Anne. Student, Stanford, 1918-1920. Bachelor of Arts, University of California, 1923, A.M., 1925, Doctor of Philosophy, 1929.
Professor French University of California, 1929-1946. Author: Anatole France and His Time, 1932, For Us the Living, 1949, The Man Who Would be God, 1959, Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship, 1965, The Last Voyage of the Schooner Rosamond, 1970. Translator: Andre Malraux’s Man’s Fate, 1934, Days of Wrath, 1936, Louis Aragon’s Bells of Basel, 1936, Louis Aragon’s Residential Quarter, 1938, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, 1942, Vladimir Pozner’s The Edge of the Sword, 1942, First Harvest, 1943, Gontran de Poncins’ Home is the Hunter, 1943.
Andre Maurois’ Seven Faces of Love, 1943, Salvador Dali’s Hidden Faces, 1944, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows, 1944, Denis de Rougemont’s Devil’s Share, 1944, Vercors’ Three Short Novels, 1947, Simon Gantillon’s Vessel of Wrath, 1947, Salvador Dali’s 50 Secrets of Magic Craftmanship, 1948, Salvador Dali: On Modern Art, 1957, Stendhal’s A Roman Journey, 1957, Rene Grousset’s Chinese Art and Culture, 1959, Michel Seuphor’s The Sculpture of This Century, 1960, Aragon’s Holy Week, 1961, Michel Seuphor’s Abstract Painting, 1962, Henri Michaux’s Light Through Darkness, 1962, Michel Seuphor’s Abstract Painting in Flanders, 1963, Bob Claessen’s and Jeanne Rousseau’s Our Bruegel, 1969, Pierre Galante’s Andre Malraux, 1971, Jerzy Szablowski’s Flemish Tapestries, 1972. Others.; Contributor to various mags.
Member P.E.N.
Married Ruth Bosley, 1922 (divorced 1931).; married Barbara Lansburgh, 1931 (divorced 1950).; married Carol Lansburgh, 1952.
Children: Suzanne Andree, Haakon Lazarus.