Charles de Mazade
Louis Charles Jean Robert de Mazade – Percin (born March 19, 1820 in Castelsarrasin , Département Tarn-et-Garonne , † April 19, 1893 in Paris ) was a French poet , journalist and writer , who in 1882 became a member of the Académie française .
Life
De Mazade published his volume of poetry Odes in 1841 and later became a journalist at Revue de Paris and political editor at the magazine Revue des Deux Mondes, which still exists today .
As a writer, he wrote numerous contemporary country accounts about France, Italy , Poland and Spain , but also biographical accounts of personalities such as Alphonse de Lamartine , Camillo Benso von Cavour , Adolphe Thiers and Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich .
In December 1882 he succeeded François-Joseph de Champagny as a member of the Académie française and took the fourth armchair (Fauteuil 4) there until his death. After his death, the Spanish-born writer José-Maria de Heredia followed him as a member of the academy.
Publications
- Odes , 1841
- L'Espagne Moderne , 1855
- L'Italie modern, récit des guerres et des révolutions italiennes , 1860
- La Pologne contemporaine , 1863
- L'Italie et les Italiens , 1864
- Deux femmes de la révolution , 1866
- Les révolutions de l'Espagne contemporaine , 1868
- Lamartine, sa vie littéraire et politique , 1872
- La guerre de France, 2 vol. Portraits d'histoire morale et politique du temps , 1875
- Le comte de Cavour , 1877
- Le comte de Serres. À travers l'Italie , 1879
- M. Thiers; cinquante années d'histoire contemporaine, 1884
- Un chancelier d'ancien régime: le règne diplomatique de M. de Metternich , 1889
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Charles de Mazade in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ typographical errors; not: L'italie, but L'Italie
- ↑ Charles de Mazade. In: Wikipedia France. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., December 8, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Charles de Mazade. In: Wikipedia France. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., December 8, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 (French, the word "de" was missing.): "Le comte de Cavour"
- ↑ Charles de Mazade. In: Brockhaus. retro library, December 8, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Charles de Mazade. In: Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., December 8, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 (French): "Title of publication did not match the original"
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SURNAME | Mazade, Charles de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mazade – Percin, Louis Charles Jean Robert de (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist, poet and literary critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1820 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Castelsarrasin , Tarn-et-Garonne department |
DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1893 |
Place of death | Paris |