Élie Berthet
Élie Bertrand Berthet (born June 8, 1815 in Limoges , † February 3, 1891 in Paris ) was a French novelist .
Life
Élie Berthet, who was actually baptized with the name Bertrand Berthet and was the son of a businessman, got a good education at a high school in his hometown. At first he was interested in natural history, but soon his interest in literature predominated. He went to Paris in 1834, ostensibly to study law, but quickly turned to literature against his parents' wishes. With the support of Edouard Ourliac and Arsène Houssaye , he published his first collection of short stories La Veilleuse in 1835 under the pseudonym Élie Raymond . He then took a job at Le Siècle magazine and became secretary to Louis Desnoyers . Two plays that he wrote with Paul Foucher ( Le Pacte de famine , 1839) and with Adolphe d'Ennery ( Les Garçons de recette , 1840) are insignificant. In 1840 he married a German woman with whom he had two sons.
After 1840 Berthet developed an extraordinary fertility in feature novels, which he published mainly in the Siècle . But none of his novels, which filled more than 100 volumes and had been translated several times, got beyond the middle range. In the novel Le nid de cigognes (1857) he glorified the Hohenzollern . He died in Paris in 1891 at the age of 75.
Works (selection)
- La Veilleuse (under the pseudonym Élie Raymond ), 1835
- L'Ami du château (with Henry Monnier ), 1841
- Le Colporteur , 1841
- La Croix de l'affût , 1841
- Le Chevalier de Clermont (with Henry Monnier), 1841
- Le Réfractaire , 1841
- Justin , 1842
- Le Val d'Andorre , 1842
- Le Loup-garou , 1843
- La Ferme de l'Oseraie , 1846
- Le Nid de cigognes , 1848
- La Falaise Saint-Honorine , 1851
- La Roche tremblante , 1851
- Les Mystères de la famille , 1854
- Les Catacombes de Paris , 1854
- La Bete du Gévaudan , 1858
- La Directrice des postes , 1861
- Le Gentilhomme verrier , 1862
- L'Oiseau du désert , 1863
- Le Fou de Saint-Didier , 1864
- Les Houilleurs de Polignies , 1866
- Le Bon Vieux Temps , 1867
- Les Drames de Cayenne , 1868
- Le Séquestré , 1869
- Le Gouffre , 1872
- L'Année du grand hiver 1709 , 1873
- Les Drames du cloître , 1874
- Romans préhistoriques , 1876; New edition under the title Paris avant l'histoire , 1884
- Histoire des uns et des autres , 1878
- Les Cagnards de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris , 1879
- Fleur de Bohême , 1883
- Le Garde-Champêtre , 1885
- La Petite Chailloux , 1888
Web links
- Élie Berthet . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 794.
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| SURNAME | Berthet, Élie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berthet, Élie Bertrand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Limoges |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1891 |
| Place of death | Paris |