Paul Arène

Paul-Auguste Arène (26 June 1843 – 17 December 1896) was a Provençal poet and French writer.

Biography

Arène was born in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the son of Adolphe, a clockmaker, and Reine, a cap presser. He studied in Marseille, then in Vannes. A short play which enjoyed some success at the Odéon, ''Pierrot héritier'', led him to leave the university, and to journalism in 1865, aged 23. He started to contribute to '' Figaro littéraire'' and composed his first Provençal verses, which were published in the ''Almanach avignonnais'' by Joseph Roumanille. He died in Antibes.

The subject of all of his Provençal pieces is the area, and particularly the countryside, around Sisteron: ''Fontfrediero'', ''Lis Estello negro'', ''Raubatori''.

In French, Paul Arène published ''Parnassiculet'', in which he talked about his life, in the style of Parnassianism. Like his friend Octave Mirbeau in 1884, Paul Arène collaborated actively with Alphonse Daudet in the publishing of his Provençal chronicles, published as ''L'Événement'' and which were republished under the title '' Lettres de mon moulin''.

In 1868, Paul Arène wrote his chef-d'œuvre, ''Jean des Figues''. After 1870, he wrote chronicles, poems, among which ''Le Tor d'Entraÿs'', ''Le Clos des âmes'', ''Le Canot des six capitaines'', ''Au Bon Soleil'' and ''La Gueuse parfumée'', and two collections. He also wrote ''La Chèvre d'or'', ''Les Ogresses'', ''Le Midi bouge'' and ''Domnine''.

Publications

* ''Pierrot Héritier'' (1865).
* ''Jean-des-Figues'' (1868).
* ''Les Comédiens Errants'' (1873, with V. Vernier).
* ''Un Duel aux Lanternes'' (1873).
* ''L'Ilote'' (1875, with Charles Monselet).
* ''Le Char'' (1875, with Alphonse Daudet).
* ''La Gueuse Parfumée'' (1876).
* ''Le Prologue sans le Savoir'' (1877, with Henri d'Erville).
* ''Contes de Noël'' (1879).
* ''Les Contes en Cent Lignes'' (1880).
* ''Au Bon Soleil'' (1880).
* ''Paris Ingénu'' (1882).
* ''La Vraie Tentation du Grand Saint-Antoine'' (1880).
* ''Vingt Jours en Tunisie'' (1884).
* ''Mobilier Scolaire'' (1886).
* ''Contes de Paris. Contes de Provence. L'Âne de Nazaire. La Mule'' (1887).
* ''La Chèvre d'Or'' (1889).
* ''Nouveaux Contes de Noël'' (1891).
* ''Le Midi Bouge'' (1891).
* ''Les Ogresses'' (1891).
* ''Des Alpes aux Pyrénées'' (1892, with Albert Tournier).
* ''Domnine'' (1894).
* ''Friquette et Friquets'' (1896).

Posthumous
* ''Le Secret de Polichinelle'' (1897).
* ''La Veine d'Argile'' (1928).

Works in English translation
* ''The Golden Goat'' (1921).

See also

* A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière

Further reading

* Bonfils, Juliette (1933). ''Paul Arène: Poète, Félibre et Conteur.'' Aix-en-Provence: Éditions du Feu.
* Duché, René (1949). ''La Langue et le Style de Paul Arène''. Paris: M. Didier.
* Durand, Bruno (1924). ''Paul Arène.'' Nîmes: A. Chastanier.
* France, Anatole (1922)
"Paul Arène."
In: ''On Life & Letters.'' London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, pp. 45–52.
* Gagnier, Roger (1993). ''Paul Arène: Sa Vie, Son Œuvre.'' Raphèle-Lès-Arles: Marcel Petit Editeur.

External links

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Works by Paul Arène
at Hathi Trust
* Collection of verses, Preceded by LHôtel du Dragon-Bleu'' (2nd ed. 1872).

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1843 births
1896 deaths
People from Sisteron
19th-century French poets
Writers from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
French male poets
19th-century French male writers