Amédée Pigeon

Amédée Pigeon (born January 22, 1851 in Paris , † 1905 there ) was a French journalist, art critic and writer.

Pigeon was the nephew of the historian Gaston Boissier .

As an art critic, Pigeon wrote mostly for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts ; a major focus of his topics were contemporary German and English art. Charles Blanc , the founder of this magazine, supported and encouraged him.

The purely journalistic work of Pigeon could be read almost exclusively in the newspaper “ Le Figaro ”. In 1876 Pigeon made his successful debut as a poet. Through the composer Paul Vidal , Pigeon made the acquaintance of some Parnassians . But the publisher Alphonse Lemerre also noticed him and included some of his poems in the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain . Today Pigeon is also part of this literary association.

When the political situation eased after the Franco-Prussian War , Pigeon accepted a position as a lecturer in French at the University of Bonn . From there Jules Laforgue brought him to Berlin . Pigeon was then his successor as a " private teacher for French" with Augusta , the wife of the German Emperor Wilhelm I.

Works (selection)

Fiction

• L'amours dans les enfers. Comédie en un acte . Heugel, Paris 1892 (together with Paul Vidal).
• La confession de Mme de Weyre. Novel modern . Paris 1886.
• Les deux amours. Poésies . 1876.
• Une femme jalouse. Novel modern . Librairie illustrée, Paris 1888.

Non-fiction

• L'Allemagne de M. de Bismarck . Giraud, Paris 1885.
• Une ami du peuple. La Bretagne en 1848 . Colin, Paris 1896.
• Gabriel d'Annunzio . Poète et romancier italy . Paris 1892.
• Le mouvement des arts en Allemagne. Sebastiano del Piombo . Paris 1887.

literature

• Paul Albert: La littérature française en 18th siècle . Hachette, Paris 1908.
• Albert Mockel: Propos littérature (1894). Suivi de Stéphane Mallarmé , un heros (1899) et autres textes . Champion, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7453-1818-3 .

Web links

Wikisource: Amédée Pigeon  - Sources and full texts (French)