Auguste Vacquerie

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Auguste Vacquerie (born November 19, 1819 in Villequier , Département Seine-Inférieure , † February 19, 1895 in Paris ) was a French writer, journalist and photographer.

Vacquerie on a photograph by Nadar around 1865

Life

Auguste Vacquerie came from a family of ship owners in Normandy . He completed his school days at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen and then in Paris at the Lycée Charlemagne . Classmate was u. a. the later writer Paul Meurice .

Vacquerie was already enthusiastic about Victor Hugo and his literary works during his school days . This enthusiasm was intensified when his brother Charles married Léopoldine , a daughter of Victor Hugo, on February 15, 1843 . Léopoldine and Charles had an accident on September 4th of the same year on the occasion of a boat trip on the Seine near Villequier.

When Victor Hugo carried out the coup d'état on December 2, 1851 by Napoléon III. publicly condemned, he was banished and went into exile. Auguste Vacquerie accompanied him and first settled with Hugo on the British Channel Island of Jersey ; later on Guernsey . It was not until 1869 that Vacquerie was able to return to France.

Auguste Vacquerie died on February 19, 1895 in Paris and found his final resting place in the cemetery of his hometown, next to his brother Charles and his wife Léopoldine.

Works (selection)

Poetry
  • Demi-teintes . 1845
  • L'enfer de spirit . 1840
Plays
Translations

literature

  • Alfred Barbou: Victor Hugo and his time ("Victor Hugo et son temps"). Thiel Verlag, Leipzig 1882.
  • Francoise Heilbrun, Danielle Molinari: Victor Hugo. In collaboration with the soleil; photographies de l'exile . Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7118-3758-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Vacquerie, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Villequier
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1895
Place of death Paris