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Fernand Desnoyers
Fernand Desnoyers, full name Félix-Emile-Arthur Desnoyers, (10 September 1826 – 5 November 1869 Digital archives of the Ville de Paris, vital record of the 15th arrondissement, register of 1869 deaths, act n° 2709, vue 1/3 The act mentions he was a bachelor aged 43.) was a 19th-century French writer and literary critic. The journalist and playwright Edmond de Biéville (1814–1880) was his brother. Biography He was part of Henry Murger's circle and an editor at the ''Polichinelle''. When he died, the paper ''Le Temps'' 8 November 1869 read: Publications *1853: ''Chants et chansons de la bohême, illustrés de 26 jolis dessins par Nadar'', with contributions by Henry Murger, Pierre Dupont, Gustave Mathieu, Antonio Watripon, Léon Noel, Charles Vincent, Pierre Bry, Louis Barré, Benjamin Gastineau, Édouard Plouvier, Alfred Delvau, Charles Guignard, Abel Duvernoy, Chatillon, in-12, J. Bry aîné libraire-éditeur, Paris *1856: ''Le Bras noir'', pantomime in verse b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Déjazet
The Théâtre Déjazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple (popularly known as the 'boulevard du crime’) in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France. It was founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X. It was then closed down and not reopened until 1851. At that time it became a café-concert called the Folies-Mayer, on the site of a former ''jeu de paume'' (tennis court). It was converted into the Folies-Concertantes in 1853, and reopened as the Folies-Nouvelles on 21 October 1854.Lecomte 1905p. 28 Under the direction of the operetta composer Hervé from 1854 to 1856, it became a theatre for one-act ''spectacles-concerts'' with premieres of Hervé's ''La Perle de l'Alsace'' (1854), ''Un Compositeur toqué'' (1854), ''La Fine fleur de l'Andalousie'' (1854), ''Agamemnon, ou Le Chameau à deux bosses'' (1856), and ''Vadé au cabaret'' (1856). Several of Auguste Pilati's works received their first performance at the Théâtre des Folies-Nouvelles, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1869 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1869. Events * February 3 – Booth's Theatre opens on Manhattan with the owner, Edwin Booth, playing the male lead in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''. *May 10 – As a protest against her drama school having been closed down by the Russian authorities, Swedish-born actress Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm delivers the lines in her next performance, Aleksis Kivi's ''Lea'', in the Finnish language, the first time it has been spoken in the public theatre in Finland. *May 22 – Serial publication of Anthony Trollope's novel ''He Knew He Was Right'' concludes and it appears in London as the first book to include a fictional private investigator, ex-policeman Samuel Bozzle. *August **Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco ''News Letter'', begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become ''The Devil's Dictionary''. **Macmillan Publishing opens its first American off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1867. Events *By February – The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of poet Lord Byron (later demolished). *October 3 – Anthony Trollope resigns from a senior administrative position in the British General Post Office, to write full-time. *November – The Leipzig publisher Reclam launches its ''Universal-Bibliothek'' series of cheap reprints with an edition of Goethe's ''Faust'' following the lifting of copyright restrictions in the new North German Confederation for authors dead for more than 30 years. *December 2 – Charles Dickens begins a U.S. reading tour in New York City. *December – After publication of Leo Tolstoy's ''1805'', an early version of ''War and Peace'', concludes in ''The Russian Messenger'', an advertisement appears for the revised complete novel. *''unknown dates'' **The première of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1865. Events *January – The first issue appears of ''Our Young Folks'', an American monthly for children produced by Ticknor and Fields in Boston. *February – Publication of Leo Tolstoy's ''1805'', an early version of ''War and Peace'', begins in the magazine '' Russkiy Vestnik''. *April 14 – The President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is shot while attending a performance of the farce ''Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln dies the following day. *June 9 – Charles Dickens is caught in the Staplehurst rail crash in Kent, England, together with the actress Ellen Ternan and her mother. Dickens is deeply affected by the event for the rest of his life. *June 14 – Karl May begins a four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at Osterstein Castle (Zwickau). *July – The American magazine for chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Blas
''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, by Tobias Smollett in 1748. Plot summary Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. He becomes a valet and, over the course of several years, is able to observe many different classes of society, both lay and clerical. Because of his occupation, he meets many disreputable people and is able to adjust to many situations, thanks to his adaptability and quick wit. He finally finds himself at the royal court as a favorite of the king and secretary to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1864. —Opening of '' Our Mutual Friend'' Events *January – Anthony Trollope's ''Can You Forgive Her?'', the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, '' The Small House at Allington'' concludes publication in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' and is published in book form by George Smith. * January 2–April 16 – James Payn publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''. He follows it in the magazine (August 6 – December 24) by ''Married Beneath Him''. * February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. *March (dated January–February) – The first issue of the Russian literary magazine ''Ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1863. Events *January 1 – The essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing " Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with a debut reading of it at Boston Music Hall. *January 31 – Jules Verne's novel '' Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon)'' is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's ''Voyages Extraordinaires''. *February 3 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in signing a humorous letter to the ''Territorial Enterprise'' newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, first uses the pen name Mark Twain. *February 28 – Flaubert and Turgenev meet for the first time, in Paris. *June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair, as a social meeting place for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled ''Les Fleurs du mal'' (''The Flowers of Evil''), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term modernity (''modernité'') to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernism, Modernis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde. Life and times Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département (southwestern France). His father was Jean-Pierre Gautier,See "Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs – La descendance de Théophile Gautier", landrucimetieres.fr/ref> a fairly cultured minor government official, and his mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Cocard. The family moved to Paris in 1814, taking up residence in the ancient Marais district. Gautier's education comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862. Events *February – Ivan Turgenev's novel '' Fathers and Sons'' (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, , literally "Fathers and Children") is published by '' Russkiy Vestnik'' in Moscow. *March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel ''Les Misérables'' appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October. *April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir. Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences. *April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Poulet-Malassis
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (16 March 1825 – 11 February 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire. Biography In his short six years of printing and publishing, Poulet-Malassis released very few books, and with little gain financially. He seemed to have been more concerned with their aesthetics and their appeal to his close friends than, much to the despair of his partner and brother-in-law , the profits and financial state of his business. The books were always beautifully bound and printed on fine paper with illustrations. Poulet-Malassis famously printed and published the works of Baudelaire, but also printed works that would have been safer, by more acclaimed novelists, poets and critics. These included Théodore Faullain de Banville, Théophile Gautier, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Champfleury. It sometimes seems as if he had printed his friends' work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
