Émile Goudeau
Émile Goudeau (born August 29, 1849 in Périgueux , † September 18, 1906 in Paris ) was a French journalist , author and poet and co-founder of the cabaret Le Chat Noir .
biography
Goudeau's parents' house was very artistic, because his father was a sculptor, but he mainly created tombs. Goudeau attended a monastery school , which he finished at the age of 16. He wanted to be a teacher first, but dropped out. In 1869 he went to Paris and worked for the Ministry of Finance. At the same time he wrote for the newspaper Journaux Républicains . During the Franco-Prussian War he was unemployed and the content of the newspaper was changed, so he left Paris. In Bordeaux he worked for three daily newspapers, the Gironde , the Tribune and the Victoire . In 1877, however, he moved back to Paris.
When he arrived in Paris, he was given another job in the Ministry of Finance. The following year he published a volume of poetry called Fleures de bitume (tar flowers), which caused a sensation in the literary scene. And in 1878 Goudeau started an artistic cabaret in the Latin Quarter , together with Maurice Rollinat , Maurice Mac-Nab , Charles Monselet and a few others, which bore the idiosyncratic name les Hydropathes (the water sufferers). In 1881 he founded Le Chat Noir with Rodolphe Salis and at the same time launched the humorous magazine of the same name. His second volume of poetry followed in 1884. He also acted as a chronicler for the Gil Blas , but wrote there under the pseudonym Émile Karel.
Through the Chat Noir they oriented the Hydropathes towards Montmartre . After the end of the hydropathes and the end of the chat noir, Goudeau retired to the Latin Quarter and published several volumes of poetry and novels.
Goudeau had a brother, François-Leo, who was also a poet and journalist. He wrote under the pseudonym Léo Montancey and ran a local newspaper in Algeria.
On Montmartre, there is a small square, Place Émile-Goudeau , named after him.
Publications (selection)
Volumes of poetry
- Fleurs du bitume, petits poëmes parisiens , 1878
- Poèmes ironiques , 1884
- Dix ans de bohème , 1888
Novels
- La vache enragée , 1885
- Le Froc , 1888
- Des fous , 1906
additional
- Paris qui consomme , 1893
- Paysages parisiens, heures et seasons , 1892
literature
- Jules Lermina : Dictionnaire universel illustré, biographique et bibliographique , Paris, 1883, p. 710, digitized
- Notre province: revue mensuelle : Review of Émile Goudeau, edition of March 1844, p. 59ff. Digitized
Web links
- Information on Émile Goudeau in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Émile Goudeau in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Émile Goudeau in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Rappel , edition of August 23, 1906, p. 1, digitized version , accessed on September 12, 2018
- ↑ Larousse : La Grande encyclopédie , 1973, p. 2302, digitized version , accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ Georges Heylli: Dictionnaire des pseudonymes , 1887, p. 486, digitized version , accessed on September 12, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goudeau, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist, author and poet and co-founder of the Le Chat Noir cabaret |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Périgueux |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1906 |
| Place of death | Paris |