Jacques Vincent

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Jacques Vincent , more rarely Jacques-Vincent (* 1849 in Aire-sur-la-Lys , Département Pas-de-Calais , † 1942 in Paris ) was a French writer.

Live and act

Jacques Vincent was the pseudonym of the author Angèle Berthe Venem .

At the age of seventeen she married the businessman Joseph Dussaud in 1866 and had two children with him, the later archaeologist René Dussaud and the orientalist Berthe Gaulis . She accompanied her husband on his business trips and also spent some time in Port Said ( Egypt ) and in Smyrna ( Ottoman Empire ). During these trips she began to write and a number of works have already been created in connection with her husband.

Venem returned to France and divorced in 1884. She resumed her literary attempts and was soon able to publish successfully under the male pseudonym. During this time she made u. a. the acquaintance of Paul Arthur Bory d'Arnex and in 1889 she married him in Paris.

The couple settled in the Bois de Boulogne ( 16th arrondissement ) and ran a very hospitable house. Between 1892 and 1914 (→ Third French Republic ) her home regularly became the literary salon on Thursday evenings , where mostly writers and artists met for “dinner and dialogue”. In addition to Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), Daniel (1865–1927) and Philippe Berthelot (1866–1934), Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), Albert Flament (1877–1956), Anatole France (1844–1924 ), Fernand Gregh (1873–1960), José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905), Charles Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894), Henri Opper de Blowitz (1825–1903), J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856–1940) and Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), the writer Marguerite Eymery (1860–1953) was one of the very rare female guests.

Works (selection)

Fiction
  • Âme d'artiste . Peris 1897.
    • German: artist blood. Novel . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1898.
  • Le roman d'un scout . Éditions des Presses françaises, Paris 1931
  • Trois amoureuses . Paris 1901.
  • La plus heureuse des trois. Comédie en trois actes . Paris 1911.
Non-fiction
  • Un salon parisien d'avant guerre . Tallandier, Paris 1929 (2 vols.)
  • Le canal de Suez . Ferdinand de Lesseps intimate . NEL, Paris 1935.
  • Parisiennes de guerre. 1915-1917 . Éditions de la France, Paris 1918.
  • Belgoderre. Souvenirs de Corse . Arrault, Tours 1941.
personal data
SURNAME Vincent, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacques-Vincent; Venem, Angèle Berthe (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Aire-sur-la-Lys , Pas-de-Calais department
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Paris