Jules Champfleury

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Jules Champfleury

Jules Champfleury (born September 17, 1821 in Laon , † December 6, 1889 in Sèvres ; actually Jules François Félix Husson ) was a French writer and critic of literature and art under this pseudonym, but also under the pseudonym Jules Fleury .

Champfleury wrote a number of realistic novels, stories from his own area of ​​experience, and provincial stories, which above all have documentary value. He wrote a manifesto ( Le réalisme , 1857) and several writings on realism in art and literature, as well as a history of caricature ( Histoire générale de la caricature , 1865–85). From 1887 until his death he was the museum director in Sèvres.

His acquaintances and friends included Gustave Courbet , who portrayed him alongside other friends in his monumental programmatic painting Das Atelier (1855; Paris, Musée du Louvre ), Charles Baudelaire , Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , Édmond Duranty and Max Buchon .

Gustave Courbet:
"The Artist's Studio" (1855)
Paris , Musée d'Orsay

Publications (selection)

Textbooks:

  • Histoire de la Caricature Antique , around 1865, Paris
  • Histoire de la Caricature au Moyen Age , 1872, Paris
  • Histoire de la Caricature sous la Réforme et la Ligue, Louis XIII à Louis XVI. Paris
  • Histoire de la Caricature sous la Révolution , 1877, Paris
  • Histoire de la Caricature sous la République, l'Empire et la Restauration , 1874, Paris
  • Histoire de la Caricature modern , 1865 ?, Paris
  • Histoire de l'imagerie populaire , 1886, Paris
  • Bibliography Céramique: Nomenclature Analytique de toutes les Publications faites en Europe et en Orient sur les Arts et l'Industrie Céramique depuis le XVIe siècle jusqu'en 1880 , Reprint 1981, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag
  • Histoire de faiences patriotiques sous la revolution , 1875, Paris

Novels and fairy tales:

  • Les Excentriques , 1857, Paris, reprint 1996, Plein Chant
  • Les Propos amoureux: Madame Vatinel . Mademoiselle Aurore, 1861
  • Les Souffrances du Professeur Delteil , 1870, Paris
  • Contes de printemps. Les aventures de mademoiselle Mariette , 1853, Paris
  • Contes choisis. Les trouvailles de Monsieur Bretoncel, La sonnette de Monsieur Berloquin, Monsieur Tringle . 1889, Paris

literature

  • Gilles Bonnet (ed.): Champfleury, écrivain chercheur. Paris 2006
  • Jules Troubat: Sainte-Beuve et Champfleury. Lettres de Champfleury à sa mère, à son frère et à diverse. Paris, Mercure de France 1908

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personal data
SURNAME Champfleury, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jules François Félix Husson (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and critic of literature and art
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Laon
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1889
Place of death Sèvres