Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 – 25 December 1935) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright.

Life

Léon Hennique was born in

Basse-Terre Basse-Terre (, ; ; gcf, label=Guadeloupean Creole, Bastè, ) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. It is also the ''prefecture'' (capital city) of Guadeloupe. The city of Basse-Terre is located o ...

, 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 Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

, but broke with him over the

Dreyfus Affair The Dreyfus affair (french: affaire Dreyfus, ) was a political scandal that divided the French Third Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolise modern injustice in the Francop ...

. 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. 14
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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. Plays * ''L'Empereur Dassoucy'' (1879) * ''Pierrot sceptique'' (with

Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel '' À rebour ...

, 1881) * ''Jacques Damour'' (1887) * ''Esther Brandès'' (1887) * ''La Mort du duc d'Enghien'' (1888) * ''Amour'' (1890) * ''La Menteuse'' (1892) * ''L'Argent d'autrui'' (1893) * ''Deux Patries'' (1895) * ''La Petite Paroisse'' (with

Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ...

, 1895) * ''Jarnac'' (with Johannès Gravier, 1909)

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* 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French novelists 20th-century French novelists 1850 births 1935 deaths Guadeloupean people of French descent {{Guadeloupe-bio-stub