Adolphe van Bever (25 December 1871,

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– 7 January 1927, Paris) was a 19th–20th-century French

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and erudite.

Biography

Born in a poor family, he nevertheless one day discovered a passion for science and the rigorous methods of the

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. At eighteen, he became secretary of the

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, and afterwards held the same position at the ''

Mercure de France The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was published ...

'' between 1897 and 1912. Thus, he devoted himself to his scholarly work. He also shared with his friend

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a passion for poetry that would lead them to the joint publication of their famous anthology ''Poètes d’aujourd'hui (1880–1900)'', first published in 1900 and reprinted many times. Suffering from a painful disease of syphilitic origin, the ''

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'', he overcame his physical miseries to concentrate on his work. Van Bever was primarily engaged in the critical edition of the

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, libertine and gallant poets and writers, but also addressed, through a series of regional anthologies, the oral folklore of the French provinces, in collaboration with

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. He also played an important role in the collection "Maîtres du livre" by the publisher

Georges Crès Georges-Célestin Crès (1875 – 13 December 1935) was a French editor and bookseller, highly active early in the 20th century. Life Georges Crès was born in 1875 in Paris, where he began his career at 13 years old as a bookstore clerk. An aut ...

in which he published critical editions of

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, Baudelaire,

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and

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. He helped

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publish ''Le Désespéré'' ("Despairing"). When his name began to be well-known, however, the ''tabes'' he suffered from worsened and turned his life into martyrdom. He died prematurely at the age of fifty-five in his Paris home of after having published nearly one hundred books. His eulogy holds entirely in the words spoken by

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on his grave in the cemetery of Grosrouvre: "Be good and suffer. Work and suffer"Léon Deffoux, obituary, in ''L'Ami du lettré. Année littéraire & artistique pour 1928'', Grasset, 1928, (p. 170–171).

Works

* ''Contes de poupées'', 1897. * ''Poètes d’aujourd’hui, morceaux choisis accompagnés de notices biographiques et d’un essai de bibliographie…'', 3 t., Mercure de France, Paris, 1900 (many editions, some illustrated); published in collaboration with Paul Léautaud. ** Tome 1 :

Henri Barbusse Henri Barbusse (; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein. Life The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnièr ...

Henri Bataille Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (4 April 1872, in Nîmes – 2 March 1922, in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young. He atten ...

Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29 ...

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (3 November 1874 in Honfleur – 26 April 1945 ) was a French journalist, poet, novelist, sculptor, historian and designer. She was a prolific writer, who produced more than 70 books in her lifetime. In France, she is ...

– Émile Despax – Max Elskamp – André Fontainas –

Paul Fort Jules-Jean-Paul Fort (1 February 1872 – 20 April 1960) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. At the age of 18, reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d'Art (1890–93). He also founded and edit ...

– René Ghil –

Remy de Gourmont Remy de Gourmont (4 April 1858 – 27 September 1915) was a French symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling ''Rémy'' de Gour ...

– Fernand Gregh – Charles Guérin – André-Ferdinand Hérold – Gérard d'Houville –

Francis Jammes Francis Jammes (; 2 December 1868, in Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées – 1 November 1938, in Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was a French and European poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his po ...

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Gustave Kahn Gustave Kahn (21 December 1859, in Metz – 5 September 1936, in Paris) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. He was also active, via publishing and essay-writing, in defining Symbolism and distinguishing it from the Decadent Movement. P ...

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Tristan Klingsor Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Nogent-sur-Marne, 3 August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic associat ...

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Jules Laforgue Jules Laforgue (; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbol ...

– Léo Larguier – Raymond de la Tailhède – Louis Le Cardonnel – Sébastien-Charles Leconte – Grégoire Leroy –

Jean Lorrain Jean Lorrain (9 August 1855 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime – 30 June 1906), born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school. Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism and spent much of his time amongs ...

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Pierre Louÿs Pierre Louÿs (; 10 December 1870 – 4 June 1925) was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection". ...

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Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

– Maurice Magre – Stéphane Mallarmé. ** Tome 2 : Louis Mandin –

Camille Mauclair Séverin Faust (December 29, 1872, Paris – April 23, 1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. Background Mauclair was a great admirer of Stéphane Mallarmé ...

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Stuart Merrill Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill (August 1, 1863 in Hempstead, New York – December 1, 1915 in Versailles, France) was an American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language. He belonged to the Symbolist school. His principal books of poetr ...

– Éphraïm Mikhaël –

Albert Mockel Albert Mockel (27 December 1866 – 30 January 1945) was a Belgian Symbolist poet. Born in Ougrée, he was the editor of '' La Wallonie'', an influential journal of Belgian, and even European, Symbolism. He died in January 1945 in Ixelles ...

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Robert de Montesquiou Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton) was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter, art collector, art interpreter, and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspira ...

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Jean Moréas Jean Moréas (; born Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos, Ιωάννης Α. Παπαδιαμαντόπουλος; 15 April 1856 – 31 March 1910), was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek ...

– Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles –

Pierre Quillard Pierre Quillard (born Paris, 14 July 1864 - died Neuilly-sur-Seine, 4 February 1912) was a French symbolist poet, playwright, translator (from Greek), and journalist. An anarchist and supporter of Dreyfus, he later became one of the first ...

– etc. ** Tome 3 :

François Porché François Porché (born Cognac, November 21, 1877 - died Vichy, April 19, 1944) was a French dramatist, poet and literary critic. The French Academy awarded him the Grand Prix de Literature in 1923. '' Les Butors et la Finette'', a "symbolical an ...

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– Ernest Raynaud –

Henri de Régnier Henri-François-Joseph de Régnier (28 December 1864 – 23 May 1936) was a French symbolist poet, considered one of the most important of France during the early 20th century. Life and works He was born in Honfleur ( Calvados) on 28 December 1 ...

– Adolphe Retté –

Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he start ...

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Georges Rodenbach Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (16 July 1855 – 25 December 1898) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. Biography Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He was ...

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Paul-Napoléon Roinard Paul-Napoléon Roinard (4 February 1856 – 26 October 1930) was a French anarchist poet. Works * ''Nos plaies'', poésies, cover drawn by the author, Paris, Soc. typographique, 1886, in-18 ; * ''Chanson d’Amour'', poetry, music by Louis Hes ...

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Jules Romains Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play '' Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine'', and a cycle ...

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Saint-Pol-Roux Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux (15 January 1861, quartier de Saint-Henry, Marseille - 18 October 1940, Brest) was a French Symbolist poet. Life Marseille Saint-Pol-Roux was born to a middle-class family in Marseille, where his fath ...

– André Salmon –

Albert Samain Albert Victor Samain (3 April 185818 August 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Life and works Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his fat ...

– Cécile Sauvage – Fernand Severin –

Emmanuel Signoret Immanuel ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל, 'Īmmānū'ēl, meaning, "God is with us"; also romanized: , ; and or in Koine Greek of the New Testament) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the H ...

– Paul Souchon �
Henry Spiess
– André Spire –

Laurent Tailhade Laurent Tailhade (; 1854–1919) was a French satirical poet, anarchist polemicist, essayist, and translator, active in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s. Works *''Au pays du mufle'' 1891. *''Poèmes élégiaques'' Vitraux. Vanier, 1891. *''A ...

– Touny-Lérys –

Paul Valéry Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, mus ...

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Charles Van Lerberghe Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 – 26 October 1907) was a Belgian author who wrote in French and was particularly identified with the symbolist movement. The growing atheism and anticlerical stance evident in his later work made it popula ...

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Émile Verhaeren Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (; 21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Lit ...

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Paul Verlaine Paul-Marie Verlaine (; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the '' fin de siècle'' in international and ...

– Francis Vielé-Griffin. * ''Les poètes satyriques des XVIe et XVIIe'', 1903. * ''Le Colporteur par François-Antoine Chevrier. Réimprimé sur l’édition publiée à Londres, en 1762, avec une préface, des notes, des documents inédits et suivi d'un supplément'', Bibliothèque des Curieux, Paris, 1904. * ''Maurice Maeterlinck'', 1904. * ''Les conteurs libertins du XVIIIe'', 1904. * ''Sonnets gaillards et priapiques, par un bibliophile inconnu'', 1906. * ''Contes & conteurs gaillards au XVIIIe'', 1906. * ''Le livre des rondeaux galants et satyriques du XVIIe'', 1906. * ''Œuvres poétiques du sieur de Dalibray avec une notice sur un poète de cabaret au XVIIe siècle, des notes historiques et critiques et des pièces justificatives'', E. Santot, coll. « Poètes d’autrefois », Paris, 1906. * ''Œuvres galantes des conteurs italiens'', 1907, 4e éd. * ''La Fleur de poésie françoyse'', 1909. * ''Les poètes du terroir.Du XVe au XXe siècle'', C. Delagrave, Paris, 4 vol., 1909-11 * ''Contes et facéties galantes du XVIIIe'', 1910. * ''La Bourgogne vue par les écrivains et les artistes'', coll. « la France pittoresque et artistique », Société des Éditions Louis-Michaud, Paris, 1913. * ''La Touraine vue par les écrivains et les artistes'', coll. « la France pittoresque et artistique », Société des Éditions Louis-Michaud, Paris, 1914. * ''La Normandie vue par les écrivains et les artistes'', coll. « la France pittoresque et artistique », Société des Éditions Louis-Michaud, Paris, 19…. * ''Anthologie littéraire de l’Alsace et de la Lorraine, XIIe-XXe'', 1920. * ''Le Cahier vert, journal intime, 1832–1835'',

Maurice de Guérin Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 181019 July 1839) was a French poet. His works were imbued with a passion for nature whose intensity reached almost to worship and was enriched by pagan elements. According to Sainte-Beuve, no French poet or ...

's diary, reworked edition from the manuscripts od G.-S. Trébutien and published with notes and clarifications by Adolphe van Bever, 1921. * ''Bibliographie et iconographie de Paul Verlaine, publiées d’après des documents inédits'', 1926.

Sources

Notice on Gallica
* Léon Deffoux, notice nécrologique, in ''L'Ami du lettré. Année littéraire & artistique pour 1928'', Grasset, 1928, .

Bibliography

* Edmond Rocher, ''Adolphe van Bever'', G. Crès, Paris, 1911. * Paul Léautaud, ''Adolphe van Bever'', Impr. F. Paillart, Abbeville, 1927. * Ch. Bosse, ''Catalogue de la bibliothèque : livres anciens et modernes, éditions originales d'auteurs contemporains, la plupart avec dédicace autographe, réimpressions d'auteurs classiques, livres illustrés, poétes du terroir, epistoliers, histoire littéraire, beaux-arts, mémoires, bibliographie de M. Ad. van Bever'', L. Giraud-Badin, Paris, 1927. * Valentina Gosetti
"Poetry Anthologists as Translingual Mediators: The Example of Adolphe van Bever's ''Les poètes du terroir''"
''L'Esprit Créateur'' 59, no. 4 (2019): 40-53.

References

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