Laurent-Jan

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Laurent-Jan , actually Alphonse-Jean Laurent (born April 28, 1808 , † July 29, 1877 ) was a French painter, author and collaborator of Honoré de Balzacs .

Life

Laurent-Jan was one of Honoré de Balzac's close circle of friends in the 1830s; In 1839 he worked on Balzac's drama Vautrin and the monograph de le Presse parisienne . In the following years he supported the writer in negotiations with publishers and newspaper editors; During Balzac's trips to Russia to Ewelina Hańska in the late 1840s, he took care of Balzac's literary affairs. Together with Amédée Achard and Joseph Méry he wrote under the pseudonym Grimm from 1845 for the newspaper L'Epoque the feature articles Lettres parisiennes .; In 1841 Laurent-Jan wrote about Ingres in Le Charivari . According to Hector Berlioz , Laurent-Jan would have acted “more as a phantasy than as a critic”.

Following the example of the artist Laurent-Jan, Balzac created the literary figure of Joseph Bidau in his Comédie humaine , who appeared in the painter's novel La Rabouilleuse (1841/42, German The Crab Fisherwoman , 1846) and the story Un début dans la vie (1844, dt. a beginning of life ) occurs.

Laurent-Jan, who himself remained unsuccessful as an artist, was one of the writer's most loyal friends; When Balzac died on August 18, 1850, he reported the death to the Mairie and wrote the obituary notes for the newspapers to publish. He also brought in the painter Eugène Giraud , who painted a pastel of Balzac on the death bed.

Publications (selection)

  • Fourberies de femme en matière de sentiment; Clichy; Paris le soir; avec des notices en tête de chaque série par MM. Laurent-Jan, Lireux et Leon Gozlan . Paris: J. Hetzel, Garnier frères, 1846–1848
  • Gavarni (Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier): Les Enfants terribles; Traduction en langue vulgaire; Les Lorettes; Les Actrices; avec des notices en tête de chaque série par MM. Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan . Paris: J. Hetzel - Garnier frères, 1846–1848

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Laurent-Jan in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. ^ André Maurois: Prometheus or the life of Balzac . Düsseldorf, Econ Verlag, 1966 pp. 360–371.
  3. ↑ Maurice Regard: Adversaire des romantiques: Gustave Planche , 1956, p. 272.
  4. ↑ Linzy Erika Dickinson: Theater in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine . 2000, p. 28.
  5. ↑ Stéphane Vachon: Balzac , p. 483
  6. ↑ Gary Tinterow, Philip Conisbee: Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch . 1999 - page 570.
  7. ↑ Hector Berlioz: Memoirs . 2012, p. 236.
  8. ↑ Angelica Rieger: Alter ego: the painter as the shadow of the writer in French literature , p. 113.
  9. ↑ Claudia Schmölders - About Balzac, 1977, page 121
personal data
SURNAME Laurent-Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurent, Alphonse-Jean (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, author and collaborator Honoré de Balzacs
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1808
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1877