Louis-Xavier de Ricard
Louis-Xavier de Ricard (born January 25, 1843 in Fontenay-sous-Bois , Val-de-Marne department , † July 2, 1911 in Marseille ) was a French writer and journalist.
De Ricard was a son of Marquis Joseph-Barthélemy de Ricard , the personal adjutant of Jérôme Bonaparte .
At the age of 19, de Ricard made his successful debut in 1862 with the support of Auguste Poulet-Malassis with his poem “Les chants de l'aube”. Encouraged by this and with a small inheritance, de Ricard was able to found the magazine La revue du progès in March of the following year and his first collaborators included Charles Longuet and Paul Verlaine . This magazine stopped appearing after a year when Bishop Félix Dupanloup accused it of “atheistic activities”.
As its owner and editor-in-chief, de Ricard was sentenced to eight months in prison. In this process he was defended by the young lawyer Léon Gambetta , who was able to reduce the prison sentence in the appeal hearing to three months (to be served in the Sainte-Pélague prison ).
Colleagues and friends, who stood by de Ricard even after serving their prison sentence, met every Friday at de Ricard's mother and over time these meetings grew into a more political than literary salon . Among the regular visitors were François Coppée , Anatole France , Sully Prudhomme , Raoul Rigault , Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , Paul Verlaine and others
In the winter of 1866/67, de Ricard and Catulle Mendès did important preparatory work for Alphonse Lemerre , which resulted in the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain . When de Ricard's father died in 1868, the weekly meetings of these anti-clerical Republicans were moved to Nina de Callias' apartment .
De Ricard took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71; in parts he fought under the command of Louis-Auguste Blanqui . He then became a member of the Paris Commune . In 1873 de Ricard married his childhood friend, Lydia Wilson from Scotland . Together with his wife, who was already known as a poet, he settled near Montpellier ( Département Hérault ). There he made friends with Frédéric Mistral , among others , who was also able to inspire him for the ideas of Félibrige .
His wife died in 1880 and two years later de Ricard emigrated to South America and settled in Buenos Aires . There he later married Louise Kirchner for the second time . In 1885 (according to another reading 1886) de Ricard returned to France. In 1887 he went to Barcelona and in 1890/91 he spent a year on the island of Java . Returning from this trip, he settled in Marseille and died there on July 2, 1911.
Works (selection)
- Histoire mondaine du Second Empire . Librairie Universelle, Paris 1904.
- Officier de fortune. Aventures de Marie-Armand de Guerry de Mabreuil . Montgredien, Paris 1899.
- Un poète national. Auguste Fourès . Laffrin, Paris 1889.
literature
- Jean-Marie Carbasse: Louis-Xavier de Ricard. Félibre rouge . Lacave, Montpellier 1977.
- Georges Peyronnet: Un féderaliste méridional du XIXe siècle. Louis-Xavier de Ricard, 1843-1911 . Lacour, Nice 1997.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ricard, Louis-Xavier de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fontenay-sous-Bois , Val-de-Marne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1911 |
| Place of death | Marseille |