Alexandre Piédagnel

Alexandre Piédagnel (born December 27, 1831 in Cherbourg , Department Manche , † September 12, 1903 ) was a French writer.

Piédagnel was friends with Stéphane Mallarmé and Catulle Mendès . Through this he came into contact with other Parnassians and the publisher Alphonse Lemerre invited him to work on the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain . Today Piédagnel is part of this literary association.

In his work as editor at the "Librairie de Bibliophiles" he occasionally took advice from Alfred des Essarts , the librarian of the Sainte-Geneviève library . This acquaintance also came about through the Parnassians , Alfred's son, Emmanuel des Essarts , was also one of them.

Piédagnel took part in the Franco-Prussian War and settled in Paris for a few years after the end of the war in 1872 . He was interested u. a. for contemporary art and in 1876 published the first monograph on the painter Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon School . In addition to his own literary work, Pièdagnel also made a name for himself as a publisher over time.

Works

as an author

• Ambulances de Paris pendant le siege (1870–1871) . Librairie generale, Paris 1871.
• Avril. Poèsies . 1877.
• Un bouquiniste parisien. Le père Lécureux . Lemerre, Paris 1878.
• En route. Poèsies . Fischbacher, Paris 1885.
• Here. Poemes . 1882.
• Jadis. Souvenirs et fantaisies . Liseux, Paris 1886 (illustrated by Marcel d'Aubepine ).
• Jean-François Millet. Souvenirs de Barbizon . Cadart, Paris 1876.
• Jules Janin . 1804-1874 . Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1874.

as editor

• Charlotte Aïssié : Lettres à Mme Calandrini . Jouaust, Paris 1878.
• Bernard de Bonnard : Œuvres choisies . Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1886.
• Jean Dorat : Œuvres choisies . Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1888.
• Xavier de Maistre : Voyage d'autour dans ma chambre . Quantin, Paris 1882.
• Jean-François Regnard : Oeuvres . Lemerre, Paris 1887/88 (2 vol.).
• Pierre-Jacques Roulliot : Chansons . Jouaust, Paris 1883.
• Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : La chaumière indienne suivi du cafe du surate . Jouaust, Paris 1875.
• Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Paul et Virginie . Liseux, Paris 1879.

literature

• Alphonse Lemerre: Le Parnasse contemporain
• Maurice Soriau: Histoire du Parnasse . Slatkine, Geneva 1972 (reprint of the Paris 1929 edition).

Web links

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