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Louis Émile Benassit
Louis Émile Benassit (20 December 1833 – 9 August 1902) was a French artist and raconteur. He cut a colorful figure in the literary and artistic circles of Paris in the 1860s and 1870s, known equally for his satirical drawings and for his barbed wit. His updated versions of the fables of La Fontaine were widely reported in the French press. After his own military service in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he frequently depicted soldiers, often enduring snow or inclement weather. Eventually, thanks in part to the influential art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, his work began to fetch high prices; Benassit's depictions of courtiers and ladies of the 1700s became especially popular. But beginning in 1882, a progressive paralysis that started in his right arm cut short both his career and his appearances in café society, though by at least one account he learned to paint using his left hand. The last twelve years of his life were spent in relative seclusion away from Paris. Educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jouarre
Jouarre () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, department in the ÃŽle-de-France Regions of France, region in north-central France. Jouarre Abbey It is the site of the Jouarre Abbey, a Merovingian foundation of Abbess Theodochilde or Telchilde, traditionally in 630, inspired by the visit of Columban, the travelling Irish monk who inspired monastic institution-building in the early seventh century. At Jouarre, there was a community of monks as well as nuns, but all were under the rule of the abbess, who in 1225 was granted immunity from interference by the Meaux, bishop of Meaux, answering only to the Pope. The Merovingian (pre-Romanesque) crypt beneath the Romanesque architecture, Romanesque abbey church contains a number of burials in sarcophagus, sarcophagi, notably that of Theodochilde's brother, Agilbert (died 680), carved with a tableau of the Last Judgment and Christ in Majesty, highlights of pre-Romanesque sculpture. In the mid-nint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules-Antoine Castagnary
Jules-Antoine Castagnary (11 April 1830 – 11 May 1888) was a French liberal politician, journalist and progressive and influential art critic, who embraced the new term "Impressionist" in his positive and perceptive review of the first Impressionist show, in ''Le Siècle'', 29 April 1874. Born at Saintes, Charente-Maritime, in the west of France, Castagnary lived in Paris, where he contributed to ''Le Monde illustré'', ''Le Siècle'' and ''Le Nain jaune'', a political journal of Liberal tendencies. He reviewed the annual Paris salons from 1857 to 1879. He organized the provincial Republican press at the time of the Siege of Paris (1870–71). After the collapse of the French Second Empire, Castagnary, who was an anti-clerical republican, developed a secondary political career. He became a member of the municipal council of Paris (1874), was the director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1887), and sat on the Conseil d'État (1879) and the Comité des monu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Lemercier De Neuville
Louis Lemercier de Neuville or La Haudussière, real name Louis Lemercier, (2 July 1830 – 1918) was a French puppeteer, journalist, columnist, playwright and storyteller. He created the French ''Théâtre de Pupazzi''. Biography Louis was the son of Louis Lemercier from Laval and Louise Deneuville, born in Rennes. He studied at the Lycée de Laval from 1842 to 1846. He began with a brief career in the Post Office. He then founded several ephemeral periodicals: on 4 March 1855, he launched his first newspaper entitled ''La Muselière, journal de la décadence intellectuelle''. He later wrote for ''L'Indépendance dramatique''. fairly regularly and published, in 1855 and 1856, the ''Pastiches critiques des auteurs contemporains'', the ''Inconnus célèbres'', and the novel ''Miettes de pain perdues''. At the end of 1856, he became chief editor of ''L'Exemple''. In 1857, he published several letters from Paris in the theatrical press and had a "comédie en vaudeville" played at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Duval (journalist)
Georges Duval (2 February 1847 – 23 September 1919) was a French journalist and playwright. Biographie Georges Duval was a columnist at ''Le Gaulois'' under the pseudonyms Claude Rieux and Tabartin. He also collaborated with the newspaper ''L'Événement''. In 1883, Guy de Maupassant dedicated him his short story '' Le Cas de madame Luneau''. His greatest theatrical success was the comédie en vaudeville ''Coquin de printemps'', composed in 1888 with Adolphe Jaime. This play was revived in Broadway in 1906 by Richard Carle under the title ''Spring Chicken''. In 1898, he also wrote with Albert Vanloo, the libretto of the operetta Véronique by André Messager. In 1892, he was chief editor of ''La Libre Parole''. Raphaël Viau, ''Vingt ans d'antisémitisme 1889-1909'', Paris, Fasquelle, 1910, (p. 36-47). Works ;Comedies *1874: ''Madame Mascarille'', comedy in one act and in verse (Théâtre de Cluny) *1876: ''Aux quatre coins'', one-act comedy (Théâtre des Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Cladel
Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, ''Les Martyrs ridicules'' (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface. He then returned to his native district of Quercy in southwestern France, where he produced a series of stories of peasant life in ''Eral le dompteur'' (1865), ''Le Nomm Qouael'' (1868) and other volumes, similar to the works of Émile Pouvillon. Returning to Paris he published the two novels which are generally acknowledged as his best work, ''Le Bouscassié'' (1869) and ''La Fête votive de Saint-Bartholomée Porte-Glaive'' (1872). ''Une Maudite'' (1876) was judged dangerous to public morals and cost its author a month's imprisonment. Other works by Cladel are ''Les Va-nu-pieds'' (1873), a volume of short stories; ''N'a-qu' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte Babou
Hippolyte Babou (1824-1878) was a French journalist, critic and novelist. Babou also wrote as Jean-sans-Peur, and used the name Camille Lorrain for his journalism in ''Le Corsaire'', '' Le Charivari'', ''L'Illustration'', '' La Patrie'', and '' Revue de Paris''. Babou was born on 24 February 1824 in Peyriac, Aude. A friend of 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 exoticis ..., Babou suggested the title ' Les Fleurs du mal' to Baudelaire at the end of 1854. Works * ''La vérité sur le cas de M. Champfleury''. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. * ''Les payens innocents; nouvelles''. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858. * ''Lettres satiriques et critiques''. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860. * ''Les amoureux de Madame de Sévigné. Les femme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rive Gauche
The Rive Gauche (, ''Left Bank'') is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two parts. When facing downstream, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank (or ''Rive Droite'') is to the right. The Left Bank is associated with artists, writers, and philosophers, including Colette, Margaret Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Erik Satie, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Janet Flanner, Jane Heap, Maria Jolas, Mina Loy, Henry Miller, Adrienne Monnier, Anaïs Nin, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Renee Vivien, Edith Wharton Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, and dozens of other members of the great artistic community at Montparnasse. The phrase implies a sense of bohemianism, counterculture, and creativity. Some of its famous streets are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Murger
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822 – 28 January 1861), was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of the 1851 book ''Scènes de la vie de bohème'' (Scenes of Bohemian Life), which is based on his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian garret (the top floor of buildings, where artists often lived) and as a member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine). In his writing he combines instinct with pathos, humour, and sadness. The book is the basis for the 1896 opera ''La bohème'' by Puccini, Leoncavallo's opera of the same name, and, at greater removes, the zarzuela '' Bohemios'' (Amadeu Vives), the 1930 operetta ''Das Veilchen vom Montmartre'' (Kálmán), and the 1996 Broadway musical ''Rent''. He wrote lyrics as well as novels and stories, the chief being ''La Chanson de Musette,'' "a tear," says Gaut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a 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 Modernist. Early life Baudelaire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Carjat
Étienne Carjat (28 March 1828 – 8 March 1906) was a French journalist, caricaturist and photographer. He co-founded the magazine ''Le Diogène'', and founded the review '' Le Boulevard''. He is best known for his numerous portraits and caricatures of political, literary and artistic Parisian figures. His best-known work is the iconic portrait of Arthur Rimbaud which he took in October 1871. The location of much of his photography is untraceable after being sold to a Mr. Roth in 1923. Biography Carjat was born in Fareins, a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. When he was ten, his family moved to Paris, and in 1841, at the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to Mr. Cartier, a silk manufacturer. At first he was employed in mundane activities, but he came to the attention of the chief designer, M. Henry, who was pleased with drawings he had made to amuse children and he was transferred to the design department. He remained there for three years. Interested in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibliothèque Patrimoniale Et D’étude De Dijon
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Gaspard De La Nuit (poetry Collection)
''Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot'' ( en, Gaspard of the Night — Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot) is the compilation of prose poems by Italian-born French poet Aloysius Bertrand. Considered one of the first examples of modern prose poetry, it was published in the year 1842, one year after Bertrand's death from tuberculosis, as a manuscript dated 1836, by his friend David d'Angers. The text includes a short address to Victor Hugo and another to Charles Nodier, and a Memoir of Bertrand written by Sainte-Beuve was included in the original 1842 edition. The poems themselves are expressed with a strong romanticist verve, and explore fantasies of medieval Europe. Theme and structure The author tells an introductory story of how he sat in a garden in Dijon, and fell into conversation with a dishevelled old man who sat near him leafing through a book. The stranger recognizes him to be a poet, and speaks of how he has spent h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
