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SUISSE, Berne. Rédaction Pierre-André Rieben
Son of Edmond, owner, and of Marie Malherbe. Bachelor of arts traditional of the university of Lausanne in 1901; stay in Paris (1901-1904). Gilliard settles in 1904 in Lausanne where he will teach the French literature with the college then with the gymnasium until 1935. It founds the Books of Vaud with Paul Budry in 1913.
Its work is presented in very diverse forms: tests of esotericism and philosophy (the cross which turns, 1929, the dramatic one of Ego, 1936-1940), poetry, lampoon (the school against the life, 1942), newspaper, literary critic.
Gilliard will be one of the first to assert the autonomy of a literature authentically of Vaud (Of the power of Of Vaud, 1926). Price of honor of the Schiller Foundation for the whole of its work (1954); Price of the Town of Lausanne (1964).