Auguste Brizeux
Auguste Julien Pélage Brizeux (born September 12, 1803 in Lorient , † May 3, 1858 in Montpellier ) was a French writer.
Life
Bizeux was brought up by Abbé Marie-Joseph Lenir , a friend of the family, who saw his primary goal in making his students good Christians and, through reading Virgil , good Latins. Trained for a legal career, he began to work on his first novel Marie in 1825 , which appeared in print in 1828 and describes his childhood and youth in Brittany.
After traveling to Italy with Auguste Barbier , he worked on a translation of Dante's " Divine Comedy ", which appeared in print in 1843. After the Fleurs d'Or (1841) he published his main work Les Bretons in 1845 .
Brizeux suffered from tuberculosis since the early 1850s. After arranging his manuscripts in April 1858, he traveled to an older half-brother in Montpellier, where he died on May 3rd. A memorial to him was inaugurated in his hometown in 1888 in the presence of Jules Simon and Ernest Renan .
Publications (selection)
Auguste Dorchain published a complete edition of his works in four volumes between 1912 and 1914 in Paris:
- Volume 1: Marie - Télen Arvor - Furnez Breiz
- Volume 2: Les Bretons
- Volume 3: La Fleur d'or - Histoires poétiques 1-2
- Volume 4: Histoires poétiques 3-7 - Poétique nouvelle
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brizeux, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brizeux, Auguste Julien Pélage (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lorient |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1858 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |