Henri Fluchère

Who is Henri Fluchère?

Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines. He was also responsible for the libretto in Darius Milhaud's L'opéra du gueux, Op. 171, a ballad opera in three acts. In 1966 his Laurence Sterne: From Tristram to Yorick, originally in French, won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for its translation by Barbara Bray.

Henri Fluchere 1898-1987 is the translator and uncle of Henri Andre Fluchere My father, Henri Andre Fluchere was the author of the Golden Guide to Wines, and illustrated other Golden Guides. He was an illustrator of science and other technical textbooks, and wrote books on art, especially watercolor. He was a registered heraldic illustrator with various museums in New York City.

Henri Andre Fluchere immigrated to the USA in 1925. He enlisted in the US Army before WWII in Military Intelligence as an Interpreter as a Master Sergeant with the 28th Infantry Division.