Gustave Pradelle

Pierre Paul Gustave Pradelle (born January 22, 1839 in Bretenoux , Département Lot , † 1891 ) was a French poet and playwright.

Pradelle was a son of the clerk of Bretenoux.

Pradelle began his first literary attempts during his school days. He signs his works partly with his own name, but partly with the pseudonym “Gustave Ringal”. Through his acquaintance with Théophile Gautier , Pradelle also met other Parnassians .

When Pradelle was asked by the publisher Alphonse Lemerre to work on the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain , which later became famous, he did so under his own name as well as under his code name. Therefore, in the past there were occasionally problems with assigning the works to an author.

Pradelle took part in the Franco-Prussian War and earned his living after the end of the war with occasional journalistic work. When the magazine "Le renaissance littéraire et artistique" appeared for the first time on April 27, 1872, Pradelle was one of the authors and he stayed that way until this magazine ceased to appear with the May 3, 1874 edition.

Works (selection)

as an author

• Christophe Colombe . Drames in 7 acts and 17 tableaux . Walder, Paris 1867.
• Le vidane. Comédie en un acte . 1873.

as an employee

• François Brunet (ed.): Le tombeau de Théophile Gautier . Champion, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7453-0454-2 (reprint of Paris 1873 edition)
• Le renaissance littéraire et artistique . Slatkine, Geneva 1973 (reprint of the Paris edition 1872/74)

literature

• Fernand Calmettes: Leconte de Lisle et ses amis . Plon, Paris 1945 (reprint of the Paris 1902 edition)
• Adolphe Racot: Les Parnassiens . Minard, Paris 1968 (Avant-Siècle; 1)

Web links

Wikisource: Gustave Pradelle  - Sources and full texts (French)