Jean-Baptiste Clément
Jean-Baptiste Clément (born May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-Billancourt , † February 23, 1903 in Paris ) was a French chansonnier and communard . He is known for his chanson Le Temps des Cerises .
Life
Jean-Baptiste Clément was born on May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (today: Boulogne-Billancourt ) as the son of a wealthy miller. At the age of 14, at the request of his mother, he learned a trade. He worked in the milling business with his grandparents in Gennevilliers (Moulin de Cage) north of Paris. During this time he became acquainted with Jules Vallès and his socialist journal Le Cri du Peuple. In 1866 he met Isoline Marcillac, with whom he moved to Montmartre and in the same year had his daughter Madeleine. In the same year the text for Le temps des Cerises was written. Antoine Renard composed the music for it in 1867. Clément was sent to the Sainte-Pélagie prison in Paris in 1868 for his own editorial work.
In 1871 he was elected to the Paris Commune . The impressions of the commune prompted him to compose La semaine sanglante and the Chansons de l'avenir. After the Paris Commune was crushed, Clément fled to London, where he taught as a French teacher. His amnesty in 1880 prompted him to return to France.
His first chansons are influenced by Théodore de Banville and Henri Murger .
plant
- Chansons du peuple. Preface de Roger Bordier. Le Temps des Cerises 2016, ISBN 978-2-370710-741 .
literature
- Eugene Pottier, Walter Mehring (ed.): French revolutionary songs from the time of the Paris Commune. Königstein [u. a.], Authors Ed., 1981, ISBN 3-7610-8111-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Clément, Jean Baptiste (1836–1903): BnF Catalog général. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (French).
- ↑ 7532-1: Jean Batiste Clément ou La fraternité en chanson ... Retrieved September 18, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Antoine Renard: Le temps des cerises: pastorale. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (French).
- ↑ a b Pierre Thomas Camelot: JEAN-BAPTISTE CLÉMENT. In: Encyclopædia Universalis. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (French).
- ^ Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch: Strolling along the Seine - Jean-Baptiste Clément and Eugène Pottier, singers of the Commune. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clément, Jean-Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cerises, Le Temps des |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chansonnier and communard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1903 |
| Place of death | Paris |