Jules Lemaître
Jules Lemaître (born February 27, 1853 in Vennecy , Loiret department , † August 5, 1914 in Tavers ) was a French writer, playwright and theater critic.
biography
Lemaître completed his school days at Catholic private schools and did not attend a state school until 1872, the École normal supérieure in Paris. After graduating in 1875, he became a teacher in Le Havre . There he wrote his first article in the Revue bleue in 1879 with the title Le mouvement poétique en France . In 1880 he was transferred to Algiers , from where he applied to the Faculté des lettres in Besançon in 1882 . In the same year he moved to Faculté des lettres in Grenoble . In 1883 he did his dissertation on the French translation of Dancourt's Corneille et la poétique de Aristote . When his wife and child had died, he turned his back on Grenoble and went to Paris.
In 1885 Lemaître became well known. He had strongly attacked Ernest Renan's work in an article in the Revue bleue . In that year he wrote his first article in the Journal des débats and became a feared critic in the following years . His main work also includes numerous plays. His first piece, Révoltée , premiered in 1889 in the renowned Odéon . By 1910 he had written twelve plays.
Lemaître was accepted into the Académie française in 1895 as the successor to Victor Duruy . He was also politically active and in 1899 co-founded the conservative Ligue de la Patrie , which he chaired until 1904. He was also an officer in the Legion of Honor.
Volumes of poetry
- Les Médaillons, poésies (1880)
- Petites Orientales, poésies (1883)
Reviews
- Impressions de théâtre . - Paris, 1888–96 (10 volumes, collected theater reviews, new edition: Editions Bibliopolis, 1998)
- Les contemporains . - Paris, 1885–96 (7 volumes, collection of critical essays from the Journal des Débats )
- L'Imagier , études et portraits contemporains (1892)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1907)
- Jean Racine (1908)
- Fénelon (1910)
- Châteaubriand (1912)
Plays
- Révoltée , piece in four acts, Paris (1889)
- Le Député Leveau , Comedy in four acts (1890)
- Mariage blanc , drama in 3 acts (1891)
- Flipote , Comedy in Three Acts (1893)
- Le Pardon , Comedy in three acts (1895)
- L'Âge difficile , comedy in three acts (1895)
- La Bonne Hélène , Comedy in two acts (1896)
- L'Aînée , comedy in four acts and five pictures (1898)
- Bertrade , Comedy in Four Acts (1905)
- La Massière , Comedy in four acts (1905)
- Le Mariage de Télémaque , comedy in five acts and six pictures (1910)
- Un salon (1924, posthumous)
Further publications
- Sérénus, histoire d'un martyr. Contes d'autrefois et d'aujourd'hui (1886)
- Dix contes (1890)
- Les Rois , Roman (1893)
- La Franc-maçonnerie (1899)
- Contes blancs: la cloche; la chapel blanche; Mariage blanc (1900)
- En marge des vieux livres , stories (1905 et 1907)
- La Vieillesse d'Hélène. Nouveaux contes en marge (1914)
Individual evidence
- ^ La Parnasse by Yann Mortelette on Google Books , page 405
- ↑ Académie francaise short biography ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Myriam Harry : La Vie de Jules Lemaître . - Paris: Flammarion, 1946
- Henry Bordeaux: Jules Lemaître . - Paris: Plon-Nurrit, 1920
Web links
- Literature by and about Jules Lemaître in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Works in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lemaître, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, playwright and theater critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vennecy , Loiret department |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1914 |
| Place of death | Tavers |