Jacques-François Ancelot
Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (born January 9, 1794 in Le Havre , Département Seine-Maritime , † September 7, 1854 in Paris ) was a French playwright and librarian.
Live and act
Ancelot was the son of a clerk at the commercial court in Le Havre. Thanks to the support of his uncle, Ancelot got a job with the naval administration after finishing school. His first literary attempts also begin at this time; his debut piece was entitled L'eau bénite de cour .
Ancelot achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1816 with his tragedy Warbeck, and three years later he published his best-known work, the tragedy Louis IX. For this play granted King Louis XVIII. from France Ancelot an honorary salary of 2000 Francs , connected with the elevation to the nobility. From this time on, Ancelot earned his living as a librarian at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal .
In addition, his Louis IX. as it always by the public and official criticism with the extremely controversial discussions Sicilian Vespers of Casimir Delavigne was compared.
When Marshal Auguste de Marmont, representing the French government, traveled to Saint Petersburg for the coronation celebrations for Tsar Nicholas I in the summer of 1826 , he was there a. a. accompanied by Ancelot. Ancelot wrote an ode for the occasion and was able to recite it to great applause. The experiences and impressions of this trip were published in the following year under the title Six mois en Russie .
Ancelot had been married to the writer Marguerite-Louise Chardon (1792–1875) since 1818 . With her he had a daughter, Louise-Edmée, who later became the wife of the lawyer Charles Lachaud (1817-1882).
As a result of the political events of the July Revolution in 1830, Ancelot lost his job as a librarian and from then on devoted only to his literary work. In the following years a number of works emerged, but with which he never more the success of Louis IX. could repeat.
In 1841 the Académie française took him into their ranks as the successor to the late philosopher Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de Bonald (armchair 30).
At the age of sixty, Ancelot died early in the morning on September 7, 1854 at home (Rue de Lille) in Paris and found his final resting place on the Cimetière Montparnasse (10th Division).
Works (selection)
- L'eau de bénite de cour .
- Elisabeth d'Angleterre . 1829
- Les familières. Épitres . 1842
- Fiesque . 1824 (based on Friedrich Schiller )
- Une fortune mystèrieuse. Novel . 1853 (2 vol.)
- L'homme du monde . 1827 (4 vol.)
- L'important .
- Louis IX 1819
- Maria Padilla . Tragedy . 1838
- Marie de Brabant . 1825
- La maire du palais. Tragedy .
- Ode to Tsar Nicolas . 1826
- Olga ou l'orpheline moscovite . 1828
- Le Roi fainéant . 1830
- Six mois en Russie . 1827
- Warbeck. Tragedy . 1816
literature
- H. Frère: Ancelot. Sa vie e ses œuvres . Rouen 1862.
- Arsène Houssaye : Confessions . Paris 1885/91 (6 vol.).
- Jéôme B. Levée: Biography et galerie historique des hommes célèbres du Havre . Le Havre 1828
- J. Morlent: Ancelot devant ses contemporains . Paris 1855
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Jacques François Ancelot at Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ancelot, Jacques-François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ancelot, Jacques-Arsène-François; Ancelot, Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Havre |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1854 |
| Place of death | Paris |