François Fertiault
François Fertiault (born June 25, 1814 in Verdun-sur-le-Doubs , Saône-et-Loire department , † October 5, 1915 in Paris ) was a French writer.
Fertiault was the son of a soldier who fought and fell under Napoleon in the Wars of Liberation . With the support of his uncle, a cleric, he was able to attend school in Chalon-sur-Saône from 1820 . At the age of 20 he successfully passed his Abitur.
Since his first literary attempts - already in school - showed promising, Fertiault got a job in the editorial office of the newspaper "Patriote de Saône-et-Loire". Most of the time he wrote for the feature pages and worked as a literary critic. In the following year Fertiault went to Paris and worked from August 8, 1835 for the Donbey-Dupré print shop . In 1836 he became an employee of a bank in Bischoffsheim ( Département Bas-Rhin ), where he worked until the February Revolution of 1848 .
In 1841 he married Julie , a daughter of the publicist Victoire Rodde (1792-1835). With her he had a son who, however, died in childhood (1856). Fertiault supported his wife in her literary work and also published several books with her.
A few years later, Fertiault settled in Paris with his wife and between 1847 and 1851 was the editor in charge of the magazine “Feuilleton de Paris”. From 1858 he headed the “Bulletin de l'union des poètes” in the same capacity for ten years.
In addition to his own literary works, Fertiault was active as a literary critic until the end of his life and as such took care of modern contemporary literature. He came into contact with the Parnassiens through the publisher Alphonse Lemerre and also worked on the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain .
His wife Julie died in 1900. From this time on Fertiault slowly withdrew from public life and died on October 5, 1915 in Paris at the age of 101.
Works (selection)
- Novels and short stories
- Arthur ou le dîner de sept châtelains . 1837
- Au clair pays . 1897
- Le dix-neuvième siècle. Satires 1840 (with Eugène Nus )
- Les imperceptibles . 1903
- Les voix amies . 1864 (together with his wife)
- Poetry
- Intimes and familières . 1907
- Le poème des larmes 1858 (together with his wife)
- Rimes bourguignones . 1899
- Sympathies . 1898
- Books for children and teenagers
- La bonne étoile . 1845
- En Bourgogne . 1898
- La chambre aux histoires . 1874
- Pâquerettes et boutons d'or . 1844
- Le petits drames rustiques . 1875
- Non-fiction
- Les amoureux du livre . Claudin, Paris 1877.
- Dictionnaire du langage popular Verduno chalonnais . Bouillon, Paris 1898.
- Les drames et cancans du livre . Lemerre, Paris 1900.
- Les legends du livre . Claudin, Paris 1886.
- Les mystères du destin . Lemerre, Paris 1888 (published under the anagram “Cranisof Altifuret”).
- La vie du livre . Lemerre, Paris 1909.
literature
- J. Richardot: François Fertiault . In: Michel Prevost u. a. (Ed.): Dictionnaire de biographie française . Letouzey & Ané, Paris, Vol. 13 (1975), pp. 1186 f.
- Maurice Du Bos: Un poète bibliophile. François Fertiault . Boucheron & Vesseley, Paris 1905.
- Gilbert Froidure d'Aubigné: Les hommes de notre temps . Edition “Journal du Parlement”, Paris 1905, p. 135.
- Alphonse Lemerre: Le Parnasse contemporain . Lemerre, Paris 1866.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fertiault, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verdun-sur-le-Doubs , Saône-et-Loire department |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1915 |
| Place of death | Paris |