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Nicolette Hennique
Marquerite Clarisse Nicolette Hennique-Valentin (17 April 1882 – 11 April 1956) was a French symbolist poet. Life Nicolette Hennique was daughter of the novelist Léon Hennique and Nicolette-Louise Dupont-Châtelain. She was born in Paris on 17 April 1882. She married Pierre Paul Henri Valentin. She inherited the house where Nicolas de Condorcet was born, now the Condorcet Museum. She was a member of the Society for propagation of art books. Hennique was one of a number of pre-war women poets in France who followed and emulated the symbolism of Stéphane Mallarmé, and who have now been largely forgotten. The highly original work of Hennique and women such as Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Anna de Noailles, Renée Vivien, Gérard d'Houville and Marie Dauguet( fr) astonished the critics, who saw it as a sign of a moral and social revolution as well as a literary one. She contributed to several journals: ''L'ermitage'', ''L'hémicycle'', ''La revue blanche'', ''La revue'' and ''Le ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Hennique
Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 – 25 December 1935) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright. Life Léon Hennique was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, the son of the naval infantry officer Agathon Hennique. He studied painting, but after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 devoted himself to literature and became a naturalistic novelist and dramatist. He was a friend of Émile Zola, but broke with him over the Dreyfus Affair. He died in Paris on 25 December 1935 and is buried at Ribemont.Bertrand Beyern, ''Guide des tombes d'hommes célèbres'', Le Cherche midi, 2011, 385 p. (, p. 14online version His daughter was the symbolist poet Nicolette Hennique. Works Novels * ''La Dévouée'' (1878) * ''L'Accident de M. Hébert'' (1883) * ''Pœuf'' (1887) * ''Un Caractère'' (1889) * ''Minnie Brandon'' (1899) Novellas * ''Deux Nouvelles'' (1881) n English translation: ''Two Novellas: Francine Cloarec's Funeral & Benjamin Rozes''; Sunny Lou Publishing, , 2021. Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
