Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé

Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé

The Viscount Marie-Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (born February 24, 1848 in Nice , † March 24, 1910 in Paris ) was a French diplomat and man of letters .

Life

De Vogüé grew up on the Château de Gourdan in the municipality of Saint-Clair near Annonay . He fought voluntarily in the Franco-German War (1870/71) and was injured in the Battle of Sedan . After his recovery he began a diplomatic career as an embassy attaché in Constantinople under his uncle Melchior de Vogüé . Then he was embassy secretary in Cairo and St. Petersburg , where he married on January 25, 1878 in the chapel of the Tsarist Winter Palace Alexandra Annenkow, daughter of General Nicholas Annenkow and sister of Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Annenkow , the builder of the Trans-Caspian Railway . The couple had three sons.

De Vogüé left the diplomatic service in 1882 and began writing. As a diplomat he had already published two important books, Syrie, Palestine, Mont Athos (1876) and Histoires orientales (1880), before writing his main work Le Roman russe in 1886 , which in France long shaped the image of the intellectual Russian upper class and that 19th century Russian literary work made famous in France. His novels Le Maître de la Mer and Les Morts qui parlent were later included in the Nelson anthology collection . He also translated numerous Russian writers into French and made Dostoyevsky known to a wider French audience. At the age of only 40, the Viscount was elected to the Académie française in 1888 . From 1889 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . De Vogüé wrote regularly for the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal des débats .

From 1893 to 1898 he ventured into politics as a member of the Ardèche department in the French Chamber of Deputies . His focus during this time was the support of the Catholic social teaching of Leo XIII. in the Third French Republic and French colonial policy.

Works

Syrie, Palestine, Mont-Athos , 1876 Vangehli , 1877 Boulacq et Saqquarah , 1879 Chez les Pharaons , 1879 Histoires orientales , 1880 Les Portraits du siècle , 1883 Le fils de Pierre le Grand , 1884 Mazeppa , 1884 Histoires d'hiver , 1885 Le Roman russe , 1886 Souvenirs et visions , 1887 Le portrait du Louvre , 1888 Remarques sur l'exposition du centenaire , 1889 Le manteau de Joseph Olenine , 1890 Spectacles contemporains , 1891

Regards historiques et littéraires , 1892 Heures d'histoire , 1892 Cœurs russes , 1893 Notes sur le Bas-Vivarais , 1893 Cœurs russes , 1894 Devant le siècle , 1896 Jean d'Agrève , 1897 Histoire et poésie , 1898 Les morts qui parlent , 1899 Le rappel des ombres , 1900 Pages d'Histoire , 1902 Le Maître de la mer , 1903 Sous l'horizon , 1904 Maxime Gorki , 1905 Les Routes , 1910

In 1932 Félix de Vogüé published his father's diary with Journal du vicomte Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé: Paris, Saint-Pétersbourg 1877-1883 (Les Cahiers Verts, Paris).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed February 4, 2016 (Russian). 

Web links

Commons : Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Literature by and about Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Le Roman russe in the Bibliothèque russe et slave (French)
• Books by de Vogüé at archive.org