Léon Cladel
Léon Alpinien Cladel (born March 22, 1834 in Montauban , Tarn-et-Garonne department , † July 20, 1892 in Sèvres , Hauts-de-Seine department ) was a French lawyer and writer.
Cladel came from an old farming family. He studied law at the University of Toulouse and, after successfully completing his degree, worked in a law firm in Paris . There he soon met Charles Baudelaire , who brought him closer to literature and also wrote the foreword to Cladel's debut novel in 1862.
Soon after, Cladel returned to his homeland for a few years. There he married and also had a daughter, Judith. In 1905 she published a remarkable biography of her father.
In 1869 Cladel was found again in Paris; in the Parnassian circle . In 1869 he was able to publish his work "Le Bouscassie" and with "Le fête votive de Saint-Bartholome Porte-Glaive" (1872) it is considered his most important work.
Cladel was considered an uncompromising Republican who addressed the economic (and thus also social) problems of the rural population in some of his books. For this he was accused in 1876 of undermining public morality and was sentenced to a few weeks in prison that same year. Contemporary literary criticism put his rebellious works on a par with those of Émile Zola .
Alphonse Lemerre , whom Cladel met through Charles Baudelaire, took some poems into the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain .
Works (selection)
- Le bouscassie . 1869
- La fête votive de Saint-Bartholome Porte-Glaive . 1872
- Les martyrs ridicules. Roman parisia . Paris 1862
- Poésies . 1936
literature
- Judith Cladel: Vie de Cladel . Paris 1905
- Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). Kröner, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-520-38801-4 , p. 218.
- Julia D. Ingersoll: Les romans régionalistes de Léon Cladel . Dissertation, University of Toulouse 1931.
Web links
- Literature by and about Léon Cladel in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Information on Léon Cladel in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cladel, Léon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cladel, Léon Alpinien (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montauban , Tarn-et-Garonne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1892 |
| Place of death | Sèvres , Hauts-de-Seine department |