Jules Janin
Jules Gabriel Janin (born February 16, 1804 in Saint-Étienne , † June 19, 1874 in Paris ) was a French writer and literary critic.
Life
Jules Janin received his scientific education in Paris and then embarked on a career in journalism. He wrote for the Revue des Deux Mondes , the Figaro , later for the government paper La Quotidienne and finally for the Journal des débats . He belonged to the circle of friends of Arsène Houssaye , the manager of the Comédie-Française . From 1836 he was a book and theater critic for the Journal des débats for almost 40 years and was therefore of great influence on the literary scene of the time.
Around 1850 he bought a rustic country house on rue de la Pompe in what was then the Parisian suburb of Passy . In 1870 he was accepted into the Académie française ( Fauteuil 28) as the successor to Sainte-Beuve .
Works
- Novels
- L'âne mort et la femme guillotinée ( The dead donkey and the guillotined woman ), Fantasy piece (1817, new edition 1860)
- La confession (1830, new edition 1861)
- Barnave (1831, new edition 1860)
- Contes fantastiques et contes littéraires (1832, new edition 1863)
- Contes nouveaux (1833)
- Le chemin de traverse (1836, new edition 1845)
- Un cœur pour deux amours (1836, new edition 1861)
- La religieuse de Toulouse (1850)
- Les oiseaux bleus (1864)
- L'Interné (1869)
- Collections
- Histoire de la littérature dramatique (1858, 6 volumes), collection of column articles
- Historical and literary historical writings
- Tableaux anecdotiques de la littérature française, depuis François Ier jusqu'à nos jours (1829)
- Béranger et son temps (1866)
- La poésie et l'éloquence à Rome au temps des Césars (1864)
- Lamartine (1869)
Janin also wrote a number of customs and travel pictures (including Paris et Versailles il ya cent ans , 1874) and translated Horace (6th ed. 1885)
literature
- Jules Janin, 735 lettres à sa femme. Ed. intégrale et inéd. établie d'après les autographes de la Northwestern University Evanston, Ill., USA , ed. by Paul L. Mergier-Bourdeix, 3 volumes, Paris: Klincksieck, 1973–1979
- Françoise Joukovsky, Jules Janin et son temps , Paris 1974 ( digitized version )
- Jacques Landrin, Jules Janin. Conteur et romancier , Paris: Société Les Belles Lettres, 1978
Web links
- Literature by and about Jules Janin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jules Janin in the German Digital Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janin, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janin, Jules Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Etienne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1874 |
| Place of death | Paris |