Alexis Bouvier
Alexis Bouvier (born January 15, 1836 in Paris , † May 18, 1892 ibid) was a French novelist.
Life
Alexis Bouvier was the son of a bronze worker, learned the profession of chaser and practiced it until 1863, at which time he experienced his first success as a writer of chansonettes and vaudevilles for small stages. His name is best known for the dramatic chanson La canaille (1865), which has long remained a popular number at café concerts.
As a novelist, Bouvier made his debut in 1868 with La duchesse Quinquenveult! and then published a series of justice and horror novels in quick succession, all of which are distinguished by their skillful structure and exciting presentation, not lacking the necessary stirring effects and, with the novels by Fortuné du Boisgobey and Émile Richebourg, to those of the lower classes of the people most of the works read counted. Bouvier died in Paris in 1892 at the age of 56 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Novels (selection)
- Le pauvres , 1870
- Auguste Manette , 1870 (also worked into a drama with Beauvallet)
- Les soldiers du desespoir , 1871
- Le mariage d'un forçat , 1873
- Les drames de la forêt , 1873
- M. Coquelet, le mouchard , 1878
- La grande Iza , 1878
- La belle grêlée , 1879
- La femme du mort , 1879
- Iza, Lolotte et Cie , 1880
- Les créanciers de l'échafaud , 1880
- Mademoiselle Beau-Sourire , 1880
- La petite Cayenne , 1884
- Veuve et vierge , 1884
literature
- Alexis Bouvier . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 287.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouvier, Alexis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1892 |
| Place of death | Paris |