Edouard Grenier

Édouard Grenier (born June 20, 1819 in Baume-les-Dames , Doubs department , † December 5, 1901 there ) was a French diplomat and writer. His brother was the painter Claude Jules Grenier .

Life

After his studies, Grenier got a job in the diplomatic service and worked during the Second Republic as secretary of the French embassy in Bern . After the coup d'état of December 2, 1851, he lost his post and returned to France.

A little later he worked for some time as an educator at the court of Gospodar Grigore Alexandru Ghica in the Principality of Moldova . During this time Grenier met the writer Vasile Alecsandri and his works; Grenier translated some of it and made Alecsandri known in France.

Upon his return Grenier began to write for several magazines: Revue des Deux Mondes , La Revue blanche u. a. Friends of Sully Prudhomme , he came into contact with the Parnassians and Alphonse Lemerre then invited him to take part in the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain . According to his own admission, he saw himself “only” in the area around the Parnassians and more like a “relative” of Alphonse de Lamartine and his generation.

Works (selection)

Poetry

• Chants d'un patriote . 1900
• Petits poèmes . 1859
• Poèmes dramatiques . 1861
• Poèmes épars . 1889

Plays

• Cédric XXIII. 1885
• La fiancée de l'ange . 1880
• Jacqueline Bonhomme. Tragedy modern . 1878
• Melitta . 1881
• Prologue de Julien l'Apostat . 1889

Translations

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Le renard - Paris: Hetzel, 1867. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• Charles Baille: Le poète Grenier . Besançon 1906.
• Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). Kröner, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-520-38801-4 , p. 438.

Web links

Wikisource: Édouard Grenier  - Sources and full texts (French)

• Literature by and about Édouard Grenier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)