Charles Monselet
Charles Monselet (born April 30, 1825 in Nantes , Loire-Atlantique department , † March 18, 1888 in Paris ) was a French writer, journalist, poet and librettist. Together with his colleagues Léon Brisse called Baron Brisse, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reynière and Joseph Favre , Monselet was one of the first gastronomic critics in France.
life and work
Monselet worked as a columnist for Figaro , the Journal du Matin , for Pays and Monde Illustré . He became known as an ironic portraitist of his contemporaries and earned the reputation of roi des gastronomes with works such as the six-volume Almanach des gourmands and the Lettres gourmandes , the Ode au Cochon and the Sonnet de l'asperge . In 1858 he founded the weekly Le Gourmet , for which he worked as a journalist.
In works such as Les Ruines de Paris and Figures parisiennes , he introduced the Paris of his time, and his Lorgnette Littéraire (1857) is considered a unique testimony to the Parisian literary scene of the 19th century. He wrote novels and short stories, parodies and pastiches, poems, reviews and plays, and was an important librettist.
Charles Monselet died shortly before his 63rd birthday on March 18, 1888 in Paris and his final resting place was in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Division 66). The sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg (1829–1906) designed a relief with Monselet's portrait, with which on June 26, 1904 his tombstone was solemnly decorated.
Honors
- The rue Charles Monselet in Nantes was named in his honor
Fonts (selection)
- Statues et statuettes contemporaines . Paris 1852.
- Les vignes du Seigneur . Paris 1854.
- La Lorgnette littéraire. Dictionnaire des grands et des petits auteurs de mon temps . Poulet-Malassis & de Broise, Paris 1857.
- Physiognomies parisiennes. Acteurs et Actrices . Paris 1857.
- Les ruins de Paris . Paris 1857 (4 vol.)
literature
- Claudine Sainlot: Charles Monselet . In: Agnès Marcetteau-Paul (Ed.): Nantes en 1900 . FFCB, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-907420-097 , pp. 15-22 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Nantes Médiathèque, September 10 to October 30, 1992).
- Kilien Stengel : Poètes de la bonne chère . De La Table Ronde, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7103-3073-8 .
Web links
- Information on Charles Monselet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monselet, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, journalist and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1888 |
| Place of death | Paris |