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 .
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
Web links
- Champfleury: Du réalisme (1855) in the project "Poetry Theory"
- Champfleury in Project Gutenberg
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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 |