On 27 June 1915, he was killed in a car accident while on military service near the Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on 11 August 1922. A memorial stele was erected in his memory by the Souvenir français in Goldbach.[2]Charles Maurras paid him posthumous tribute in his book Tombeaux and mentioned his membership in the Action française.[3]
Selected works
Dispensé de l'Article 23 (preface by Willy, illustrated cover by Charles Léandre), 1898, H. Simonis-Empis
Un mari sans femme, 1902, Librairie Molière
Petites confessions. Visites et portraits, 1905
La Petite Madame de Thianges, 1906, Calmann Lévy
Le Désir de vivre, 1907, Calmann Lévy
Œuvres sociales des femmes, 1908, Plon-Nourrit Read online
Le Soldat Bernard, 1909, Fayard
Les Exilés, 1911, Plon (several editions until 1920)
Le Beau Jardin, 1910, Plon (several editions until 1919)
Paul Acker is listed among the writers who died for their country on the Panthéon's list of people cited.
Notes and references
^Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN978-2-8682-0988-7.
Henry Bordeaux, Trois tombes. (La Prière pour les absents. Max Doumic. Paul Acker. Maurice Deroure. Les Honneurs aux morts.), Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1916, XIII-291 p.
Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN978-2-8682-0988-7..
Maurras, Charles (1921). "Paul Acker et Fabrice Cléret". Tombeaux. Nouvelle Librairie nationale. pp. 69–71.