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
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 ...
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
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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
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
of
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of ...
, and who have now been largely forgotten.
The highly original work of Hennique and women such as
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
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In France, she is ...
,
Anna de Noailles
Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan) (15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933) was a French writer of Romanian and Greek descent, a poet and a socialist feminist.
Biography
Personal life
Born Princess ...
,
Renée Vivien
Renée Vivien (born Pauline Mary Tarn; 11 June 1877 – 18 November 1909) was a British poet who wrote in French, in the style of the Symbolistes and the Parnassiens. A high-profile lesbian in the Paris of the Belle Époque, she is notable for he ...
,
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 gaulois''.
In 1955 Hennique published a moving book of memories of her father.
This biography, written towards the end of her life, was anecdotal and at times hagiographical.
However, it is the most detailed study available, and informative about his links with the
Théâtre Libre The Théâtre Libre (French for "Free Theatre") was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in Paris, France.
Origins and History
Théâtre Libre was founded on 30 March 1887 by André Antoine. The primary goal of the theatre was to ...
and the
Académie Goncourt
The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organisation based in Paris. It was founded in 1900 by the French writer and publisher Edmond de Go ...
, and with contemporary naturalist writers.
Reception
*A review of ''Des rêves et des choses'' (1900) in ''L'He-micycle'' (15 April 1900) praised its abundant vigour, melancholy and beauty but said what was really new was its profile of a poet with wide and daring dreams, whose beautiful deep eyes caress the contour of things.
*Henri Duvernois classifies her among the Parnassians.
*Nicolette Hennique, almost a child again, has been able to force the attention of scholars with Dreams and Things, Heroes and Gods. (''Le Gaulois'' (Paris, 1968)
*"The strange phenomenon! to sing Greek, to think Greek, to see Greek, to dream Greek, as well as the great Sappho of Mitylene and to call herself floristically Nicolette!" Émile Bergerat
Publications
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1882 births
French women poets
1956 deaths
Writers from Paris
20th-century French poets
20th-century French women writers