Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (born April 4, 1819 in Orléans , † 1906 in Morsang-sur-Orge ) was a French lexicographer and publicist .
Live and act
Vapereau, the son of a baker, spent his school days in his hometown and began to study philosophy at the École normales supérieure (ENS) in Paris in 1838 . In 1843 he was able to complete this study with Victor Cousin with his dissertation on Blaise Pascals Pensées . Then he accepted a call to Tours .
When the Second Empire in 1852 with Napoleon III. turned into a dictatorship, his republican-liberal attitude cost Vapereau the position. He returned to Paris unemployed and began to study law at the Sorbonne . In 1854 he passed his exam and was admitted to the bar.
Vapereau never practiced this profession and from this time devoted himself only to literature and especially lexicography. He escaped the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War through his appointment as prefect of the Cantal department by Louis Jules Trochu and his Gouverment de la Défense Nationale . Between March 26, 1871 and February 15, 1873 he served as prefect of the Tarn-et-Garonne department ; Because of his well-known liberal attitude, the Roman Catholic Church enforced Vapereau's replacement. Archbishop Florian Desprez was in charge .
Between January 1877 and December 1888 Vapereau worked as inspector general of the public schools. Then he only devoted himself to his publications. In addition to his lexicographical works, he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, such as Revue française , Le petit Journal and L'illustration . He published the magazine L'année littéraire et drammatique himself between 1859 and 1869.
Fonts (selection)
- Dictionnaire universel des contemporains
- Dictionnaire universel des littératures
- L'homme et la vie
literature
- Vapereau, Louis Gustave . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 27 : Tonalite - Vesuvius . London 1911, p. 897 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustave Vapereau in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vapereau, Gustave |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vapereau, Louis Gustave (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lexicographer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1906 |
| Place of death | Morsang-sur-Orge |