Judith Cladel, (March 25, 1873 – January 29, 1958) was a French playwright, novelist, biographer and journalist.
Life and career
Born and lived in Paris, she was a member of the jury of the
prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...
from 1916 to 1958. She began to write at a very young age, encouraged by her father, the novelist
Léon Cladel
Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist.
The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, ''Les Ma ...
. Her first work was the play ''Le Volant'', performed at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre in 1895 when she was 22 years old.
Léon Cladel
Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist.
The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, ''Les Ma ...
died when Judith was 19 years old. As her father's friend and her future lover,
Edmond Picard predicted, Cladel was entrusted by her family with upkeeping his memory. Judith Cladel is the author of two biographical works about the life and work of her father. Her next biographies focused on the sculptor,
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...
. Her biography ''Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue'' is her best known work and was considered the authoritative biography of the sculptor for over 50 years. She played a key role in the founding of the
Musée Rodin
The Musée Rodin ( en, Rodin Museum) in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as ...
in 1916.
[Butler, Ruth, ''Rodin: The Shape of Genius'', New Haven, Yale University Press, 1993. , p. 465]
Works
* ''Le Volant: Pièce en trois actes'', Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1895
* ''Les Confessions d’une amante'', Paris, Mercure de France, 1905
* ''La Vie de Léon Cladel'', Paris, Alphose Lemerre, 1905
* ''Auguste Rodin, l'homme et l'oeuvre'', Bruxelles, Libr. Nat. d'Art et d'Histoire, 1908
* ''Portraits d'Hier--Maurice Rollinat'', Paris, 1910
* ''Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue'', Paris, Grasset, 1936
* ''Aristide Maillol: sa vie, son oeuvre, ses idées'', Paris, Grasset, 1937
* ''Maître et discipline: Charles Baudelaires et Léon Cladel'', Paris, Corrêa, 1951
See also
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Léonce Bénédite
Léonce Bénédite (14 January 1859 – 12 May 1925) was a French art historian and curator. He was a co-founder of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (Society for French Orienalist Painters) and was instrumental in establishing ...
References
*Aron, Paul et Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre, ''Edmond Picard: Un bourgeois socialiste belge à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle'', Bruxelles: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 2013.
*Irvine, Margot, « Une Académie de femmes? », dans M. IRVINE (dir.), ''Les réseaux des femmes de lettres au XIXe siècle'', ''@nalyses'', printemps-été 2008
*Van de Kerckhove, Fabrice, ed., ''Edmond Picard - Léon Cladel. Lettres de France et de Belgique (1881–1889)'', Bruxelles: Archives et musée de la littérature, 2009. 318-322.
External links
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1873 births
1958 deaths
French women novelists