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Maxime Du Camp (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer.
Maxime du Camp's literary recollections
1893, by Maxime du Camp at th
State Library of New South Wales
Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle
1949, by Maxime du Camp at th
State Library of New South Wales
Mémoires d'un suicidé
1855, by Maxime du Camp at th
State Library of New South Wales
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Du Camp, Maxime 1822 births 1894 deaths Artists from Paris Members of the Académie Française French travel writers French literary critics French memoirists French poets 19th-century French photographers Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French novelists French male poets French male novelists 19th-century poets 19th-century memoirists People of the Paris Commune
Biography
Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets. Du Camp traveled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company withGustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...
. After his return, Du Camp wrote about his traveling experiences. Flaubert also wrote about his experiences with Maxime.
In 1851, Du Camp became a founder of the ''Revue de Paris
''Revue de Paris'' was a French literary magazine founded in 1829 by Louis-Désiré Véron. After two years Veron left the magazine to head the Paris Opera
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'' (suppressed in 1858), in which his friend Flaubert's Madame Bovary
''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emp ...
was first published in serialised form in 1856, as well as a frequent contributor to the ''Revue des deux mondes
The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829.
According to its website, "it is today the place for debates a ...
''. In 1853, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleo ...
. Serving as a volunteer with Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, pat ...
in his 1860 conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Du Camp recounted his experiences in ''Expédition des deux Siciles'' (1861). In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of the Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
. He was elected a member of the Académie française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...
in 1880, mainly, it is said, on account of his history of the Commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
, published under the title of ''Les Convulsions de Paris'' (1878–1880).
Du Camp was an early amateur photographer who learned the craft from Gustave Le Gray
Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray (; 30 August 1820 – 30 July 1884)Le Corre, Florence "Translated from the catalogue ''Une visite au camp de Châlons sous le Second Empire: photographies de Messieurs Le Gray, Prévot...'', Paris: musée de l'Armée, ...
shortly prior to departing on his 1849–1859 trip to Egypt. His travel books were among the first to be illustrated with photographs.
Maxime Du Camp died in 1894 and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre
The Cemetery of Montmartre (french: link=no, Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis ...
in the Montmartre Quarter
Montmartre ( , ) is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement. It is high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank. The historic district established by the City of Paris in 1995 is bordered by Rue Ca ...
of Paris.
Works
*''Chants modernes'' (1855) *''Convictions'' (1858) Works on travel: *''Souvenirs et paysages d'orient'' (1848) *''Egypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie'' (1852) Works of art criticism: *''Les Salons de 1857, 1859, 1861'' Novels: *''L'Homme au bracelet d'or'' (1862) *''Une histoire d'amour'' (1889) Literary studies: *''Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...
'' (1890)
Du Camp authored a valuable 6-volume book on the daily life of Paris, ''Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions, sa vie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle'' (1869–1875). He published several works on social questions, one of which, the ''Auteurs de mon temps'', was to be kept sealed in the Bibliothèque Nationale until 1910. His ''Souvenirs littéraires'' (2 vols., 1882–1883) contain much information about contemporary writers, especially Gustave Flaubert, of whom Du Camp was an early and intimate friend. In 1878, he published an account of the Paris Commune
The Paris Commune (french: Commune de Paris, ) was a revolutionary government that seized power in Paris, the capital of France, from 18 March to 28 May 1871.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National Guard had defende ...
called ''Les Convulsions de Paris'', drawing from articles on the subject he had written for the ''Revue des deux mondes''.
References
*External links
Maxime du Camp's literary recollections
1893, by Maxime du Camp at th
State Library of New South Wales
Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle
1949, by Maxime du Camp at th
State Library of New South Wales
Mémoires d'un suicidé
1855, by Maxime du Camp at th
State Library of New South Wales
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Du Camp, Maxime 1822 births 1894 deaths Artists from Paris Members of the Académie Française French travel writers French literary critics French memoirists French poets 19th-century French photographers Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French novelists French male poets French male novelists 19th-century poets 19th-century memoirists People of the Paris Commune