Jane de la Vaudère

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Jane de la Vaudère

Jane de la Vaudère , actually Jeanne Scrive (born April 15, 1857 in Paris ; † July 26, 1908 there ) was a French writer of naturalism , a representative of the fin de siècle ( decadence poetry ).

Life

Vaudère came from a wealthy family who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries. Immigrated to France from Italy in the 19th century. Her parents were the military doctor Gaspard-Léonard Scrive (1815-1861) and his wife Barbara Elizabeth Weigel (1822-1870). Her maternal uncle, Louis Löw (1828-1917) was a lawyer who had become known to the public through the Dreyfus Affair .

Vaudère had become an orphan at an early age and was taken care of by her cousin Marie-Emélie Lagarmitte, head of the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion . It was there that she began to write. At the age of fifteen she married Camille Crapez (1848–1912) and had a son with him.

After the death of her mother-in-law, her husband inherited the Château de la Vaudère in Parigné-l'Évêque ( Département Sarthe ). This château was the patron saint for her pseudonym Jane de la Vaudère .

At the age of 51, Vaudère died on July 26, 1908 in Paris, where she also found her final resting place. The funeral service took place on July 29th in the church of Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes (Paris).

reception

Vaudère wrote over thirty novels, but also short stories, plays and poems. Your plays experienced almost all of the Théâtre du Grand Guignol its premiere .

In addition to her novels, many of her works have also been published in anthologies and magazines. Vaudère was highly praised by the public as well as by literary critics during his lifetime, but is now almost completely forgotten. She was u. a. Member of the Société des gens de lettres .

Vaudère also repeatedly supported colleagues: when the photographer and artist Charles Klary published La Photographie du nu in 1902 , she wrote a foreword to it.

Works (selection)

Poetry
  • Les heures perdues . Lemerre, Paris 1889.
  • L'éternelle chanson . Ollendorff, Paris 1890.
  • Minuit . Ollendorff, Paris 1892.
  • Evocation . Ollendorff, Paris 1893.
  • Les baisers de la chimère . Ollendorff, Paris around 1895.
Novels
  • The Amazon of the King of Siam. roman (L'amazone du roi de Siam, 1902). Grimm, Budapest 1902.
  • The androgynies. Roman (Les Androgynes, 1903). Sachs & Pollák, Vienna 1903.
  • The courtisans brahmas. Roman (Les courtisanes du Brahma, 1903). Grimm, Budapest 1903.
  • Indian love secrets. Roman (Le mystère de Kama, 1901). Sachs & Pollák, Vienna 1902.
  • Degenerate women. Roman (Les demi-sexes, 1897). Sachs & Pollák, Vienna 1900.
  • The city of smiles. Roman (La cité des sourires). Grimm, Budapest 1908.
  • The right to love. Roman (Le droit d'aimer, 1895). Sachs & Pollák, Vienna 1907.
Plays
  • Le modèle. Comédie en un acte et en vers . Lemerre, Paris 1889.
  • Pour une nuit d'Amour! Drame en un acte . Ollendorff, Paris 1898.
  • Pour le flirt! Saynètes mondaines . Flammarion, Paris 1905.
  • Dupont sera élu! Comédie électorale en un acte et en vers . Ondet, Paris 1906.
  • Mademoiselle de Fontanges. Pièce en quatre actes et en vers .

literature

Essays
  • Guy Ducrey (Ed.): Jane de la Vaudère. Le sang et la science . In: Décadents méconnus (Cahiers de littérature française; Vol. 7/8). L'Harmattan, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-296-08070-6 , pp. 144-160.
  • Joëlle Prungnaud: Le cas de Marie Corelli et Jane de la Vaudère . In: Dies .: Gothique et Décadence. Research on the continuité d'un mythe et d'un genre en Grand-Bretagne et en France . Champion, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85203-628-2 , p. 239.
  • Geneviève de Vviveiros: Lettres inédites de Jane de la Vaudère à Émile Zola . In: Les Cahiers naturalistes , Vol. 81 (2007), pp. 231-242 ISSN  0008-0365 .
Monographs
  • Nicole G. Albert: Saphisme et decadence dans Paris fin-de-siècle . La Martinière, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84675-164-1 .
  • Claudine Brécourt-Villars: Écrire d'amour. Anthologie érotique féminie 1789–1984 . Ramsay, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-85956-429-2 .
  • Philippe Hamon: Dictionnaire thématique du roman de mœurs 1814–1914 . PSN, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-87854-455-8 .
  • Frédéric Monneyron: L'Androgyne décadent. Myth, figure, fantasmes . Elug, Grenoble 1996, ISBN 2-902709-94-3 .
  • Jean Rabaut: Féministes à la “Belle Époque” . France-Empire, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-7048-0415-X .
  • Geneviève de Viveiros: Jane de la Vaudère (1857-1908). Une femme de lettres fin-de-siècle . Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fernand Crapez later became mayor of Parigné-l'Évêque.
  2. ↑ with the participation of Gleeson White (1851–1898), Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927), William A. Cadby (1866–1937) and Gabriely.
  3. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre Grand Guignol (Paris), May 16, 1898.
  4. ↑ World premiere at the Théâtre Fémina (Paris)
personal data
SURNAME La Vaudère, Jane de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scrive, Jeanne (real name); La Vaudère, Jane de; LaVaudère, Jane de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer of naturalism, a representative of the fin de siècle (decadence poetry)
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1908
Place of death Paris