Henri Eugène Amédée Beauclair (December 21, 1860 at

Lisieux Lisieux () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is the capital of the Pays d'Auge area, which is characterised by valleys and hedged farmland. Name The name of the town derives from the l ...

– May 11, 1919 in Paris) was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He was the chief editor of the daily newspaper '' Le Petit Journal'' from 1906 to 1914. He worked for a number of publications, including ''Lutèce'', ''Le Chat noir'', ''Le Procope, journal parlé'' (1893–1898), and ''Le Sagittaire'', a monthly revue of art and literature (1900–1901). He had a taste and an unquestionable talent for satire and pastiche. He collaborated with poet

Gabriel Vicaire Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire (January 25, 1848 – September 23, 1900) was a French poet. Life Vicaire was born at Belfort. He served in the campaign of 1870, and then settled in Paris to practise at the bar, which, however, he soon abandoned f ...

, with whom he wrote the famous ''Déliquescences of

Adoré Floupette Adoré Floupette is the collective pseudonym of French authors Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire used for their 1885 literary spoof titled ''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette'', a collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Dec ...

'' (1885), a parody of the

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in poetry which caused several months of vigorous debate within Parisian literary circles.

Works

;Poetry *''L'Eternelle chanson, triolets'' (1884) *''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette'' (1885) *''Les Horizontales'' (1885) *''Pentecôte'' (1886) ;Novels and essays *''Le Pantalon de Madame Desnou'' (1886) *''Ohé ! l'Artiste'' (1887) *''La Ferme à Goron'' (1888) *''Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan'' (1890) *''Tapis vert'' (1897)

References

*''This article is translated from the French Wikipedia.''

External links

* * From the Electronic Library of Lisieux
''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette''
* Gallica mage filesbr>''La ferme à Goron''''Ohé ! l'Artiste''''Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan''''Tapis vert''

by G. Delatramblais (1924). {{DEFAULTSORT:Beauclair, Henri 1860 births 1919 deaths People from Lisieux 19th-century French poets French journalists French male poets 19th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers