Edmond Haraucourt

Edmond Haraucourt.

Edmond Haraucourt (born October 18, 1856 in Bourmont , † November 17, 1941 in Paris ) was a French writer.

The son of a tax clerk worked as a curator at the Musée du Trocadero from 1894 to 1903 , then at the Musée de Cluny until 1925 . From 1920 to 1922 he was president of the Société des gens de lettres .

As a writer he emerged in 1882 with La Légende des sexes, poèmes hystériques et profanes , which appeared under the pseudonym Sire de Chambley . To denote the Sonnet pointu ("dotted sonnet ") contained therein , he first used the term calligrams , which was later taken up by Apollinaire . He wrote novels, plays and poetry. Haraucourt was a member of the Les Hydropathes literary club and employee of the literary magazine La Jeune France .

Haraucourt bequeathed his property on the Île de Bréhat to the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris . He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris .