Amédée Achard

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Amédée Achard (born April 19, 1814 in Marseille , † March 24, 1875 in Paris ) was a French journalist and writer .

life and work

Achard's tomb

Amédée Achard came to Algeria with his family , where he later earned his living as a merchant. He later became a partner in an agricultural company, also in Algeria. Achard returned to France and from 1838 settled in Paris as a columnist . At the same time he was able to publish his Lettres parisiennes there for the newspaper L'Epoque , which he had written under the pseudonym "Grimm" (a homage to the writer Friedrich Melchior Grimm ).

At the time of the February Revolution in 1848 , Achard was also politically active; he wrote u. a. some revolutionary pamphlets . As a writer, he remained connected to the conservative loyal camp for a long time. He later turned back to the entertainment novel. This resulted u. a. also the historical portraits Nièces de Mazarin, which were praised by the public and critics alike . The writer Amédée died in Paris on March 24th, 1875 at the age of 61 and found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (section 85). The sculptor Louis Charles Janson (1823–1881) created the gravestone on behalf of the Société des gens de lettres and the Société des auteurs dramatiques .

Works (selection)

Novellas
  • Nobleman and farmer . In: Gustav Kühne (Ed.): Three short stories . Reichenbach Verlag, Leipzig 1850.
Novels
  • Yerta Slovoda. Roman (Yerta Slovoda, 1867). Hartleben, Vienna 1868.
  • Royal hunt. Historical novel from the time of Louis XIV (La chasse royal, 1849/50, 7 vols.). Hartleben, Pest 1861 (6 vols.).
  • The hunt for the ideal. Roman (La chasse à l'ideal, 1867). Hartleben, Vienna 1868.
  • Belle-Rose (Belle-Rose, 1847, 5 vols.). Hartleben, Pest 1851 (4 vols.)
  • Les Petits-fils de Lovelace . Paris 1854 (3 vol.).
  • Marcelle. Un roman . Paris 1868.
  • Les petits-filles d'Eve . Paris 1877.
  • La robe de Nessus . Paris 1854.
Plays
  • The invalid. Comedy in one act (L'invalide, 1872). Neumann-Möser publishing house, Berlin 1873.
  • At the window. Staggering in one act (Par les fenêtres, 1851). Hayn, Berlin 1854.
  • Travel memories. Comedy in one act (Souvenirs de voyage, 1850). Michaelson Verlag, Berlin 1853.
Non-fiction
  • Un mois en Espagne . Paris 1847.
  • Récits d'un soldier. Une armée prisonnière; une campagne devant Paris . Paris 1871.
  • Montebello , Magenta , Marignan . Lettres d'Italie . Paris 1859.
  • Souvenirs de la Forêt Noire . Paris 1880.
  • Nièces de Mazarin . Paris 1878.

literature

  • Hanns-Peter Mederer: The entertaining superstition. Reception of legends in novels, stories and everyday literature between 1840 and 1855 . Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-8322-4201-5 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg 2005).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Some Lettres parisiennes published under the pseudonym Grimm were written together with Laurent-Jan and Joseph Méry ; see. Stéphane Vachon: Balzac , p. 483
  2. ↑ Together with Alfred de Menciaux : wife of Brabantane and Émile Souvestre : sins of youth .
  3. ↑ First performance at Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell , Paris, June 19, 1872.
  4. ↑ First performance at Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Paris, July 10, 1852.
  5. ↑ First performance at Théâtre Française , Paris, March 16, 1853.
  6. ↑ to Achard's novel Roche = Blanche , 2 volumes, 1848.

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personal data
SURNAME Achard, Amédée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1875
Place of death Paris