Jules de la Madelène
Jules-François Elzéar de Collet, Baron de La Madelène (born January 11, 1820 in Versailles , † November 5, 1859 in Carpentras ) was a French writer .
life and work
His family came from the former Comtat Venaissin in the Vaucluse department , where he grew up after they returned shortly after his birth in Versailles.
The first literary works were published in 1840 in the Revue du Comtat in Avignon . To study law, he went to Paris. The Republican de La Madlène also found socialist ideas connected with Christianity there. Up to the year of the February Revolution and the June Uprising of 1848, poems and short stories appeared in the Revue indépendante . Here he met the co-founder of the magazine Pierre Leroux, who was influenced by early socialism Saint-Simons .
In 1848 he worked in Avignon as commissioner of the provisional government of the Second Republic . He ran unsuccessfully in the general council elections in the Vaucluse department. On the occasion of an uprising by silk factory workers in Lyon , he wrote the eight-page brochure L'Etat de siège ('The State of Siege') in 1849 , in which he sided with the rebels and denounced their military suppression. After the republic was crushed by Louis Napoléon and replaced by the Second Empire , Jules de La Madelène limited himself to his writing.
The novellas, which appeared in the Revue indépendante before the revolutionary year 1848 and were still influenced by the Romantic era, were published in an anthology in 1857 with the title Les Âmes en peine ('Tormented Souls') by Michel Lévy. His main work, the novel Le marquis des Saffras , was published in 1859, after it had first appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes , but was unsuccessful. In the same year de La Madelène died after a long and serious illness at the age of 39.
The novellas Brigitte and Le Comte Alghiera ('Count Alghiera') were published in one volume from the estate in 1861 . At the end of the 19th century, the Marquis des Saffras was published two more times in France. First it was reissued by Jules de La Madelène's younger brother Henry at Lemerre . Finally, the Michel Lévy publishing house published it again. It was probably first published in German in 1953 in the GDR as part of the series of novels in world literature published by Rütten & Loening under the title Der Herr vom Sandsteinschloss .
literature
- Foreword by (Louis) Aragon in: Jules de La Madelène: The Lord of the Sandstone Castle . Translated by Karl Heinrich. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1953
- Ernest Jovy: Jules de la Madelène (1820-1859) . Vitry-le-François 1920 (French)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jules de La Madelène in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jules de La Madelène in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Madelène, Jules de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Madelène, Jules-François Elzéar de Collet, Baron de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1859 |
| Place of death | Carpentras |