Louis Adrien Huart

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Louis Adrien Huart (born January 1, 1813 in Trier , † December 10, 1865 in Paris ) was a French journalist , writer and theater director .

Life

The journalist

His father Jacques Prosper Huart, cashier at the main tax office in Trier, moved with his family to Metz after the collapse of the Empire in 1814 . After attending the Lyceum, Louis Adrien went to Paris to study law, but instead preferred to get by as a journalist, initially at the Moniteur du commerce. From 1835 he wrote for the Charivari , the leading French opposition satirical daily newspaper, of which he was to become the busiest editor. In his daily theater and literary reviews as well as satires on political events, he constantly approached the limit set by the censorship , but never crossed it. Many of the legends for lithographs by Honoré Daumier and others came from his pen. Since 1848 editor-in-chief of the Charivari , he was later also its editor until his death. He has made a contribution to the discovery and promotion of young talent, Henri Rochefort z. B. he saved - as he himself wrote - from being employed as a civil servant.

The writer

In addition to working for other, mainly illustrated satirical journals ( Journal amusant , Musée pour rire , L'Artiste , Cabinet de lecture , Comic almanach , Almanach pour rire , Etrangers à Paris ), he made his debut as a writer in 1834. With biting, but never hurtful humor, he targeted contemporary celebrities in the Galerie de la presse, de la littérature et des beaux-arts between 1839 and 1841 . In addition to several stage pieces, his smaller, entertaining Parisian moral descriptions should be emphasized, which appeared from 1841–1842 under the frame title Physiologies and hit the nerve of the time. The enormous success of this and the other productions resulted not least from the fruitful collaboration with leading illustrators (e.g. Grandville, Daumier, Gavarni) and writers (e.g. Philipon, Delord) from the Charivari environment.

The theater director

From 1849 he directed the state Odéon Theater with Michel Altaroche. In 1855 he founded Les Folies-Nouvelles , which he sold to the composer Eugène Déjazet in 1859 . The smallpox put an end to the very busy Huart. His friends adored him as a decent person, humble and helpful. He is said to have been of such extreme amiability that one would never have suspected due to his rigid expression .

Works

  • Quand on a vingt ans, histoire de la rue Saint-Jacques. Paris 1834
  • Physiology de l'étudiant. Paris 1841
  • Physiology du garde national. Paris 1841
  • Physiology you stroll. Aubert & Lavigne, Paris 1841;
    • Flaneurs & Idlers , edited and introduced by Margaret A. Rose: Flaneurs & Idlers , a panonoramatic overview . Reprint of the 1841 edition (= Aisthesis Archive , Volume 8), Aisthesis , Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89528-640-7 (together with the work: Albert Smith : Natural History of Idler upon the Town, Bogue, London 1848 , (Texts partly in English and French)).
  • Physiology de la grisette. Paris 1841
  • Physiologie du médecin. Paris 1841
  • Musée Dantan, gallery des charges et croquis des célébrités de l'époque. Paris 1839.
  • Parodie du juif errant , complainte constitutionelle en dix parties. (with Charles Philipon) Paris 1844/45
  • Messieurs les Cosaques. (with Taxile Delord and Clément Caraguel). 2 vols. Paris 1854.
  • with Ernest Blum : Mémoires de Rigolboche , with Louis Huart, 1860; as: (= Edition Corvey , French-language fiction), microfilm copy , Belser Wissenschaftlicher Dienst, Wildberg 1989–1990, ISBN 3-628-59621-1 .

literature

  • Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle par Pierre Larousse. Vol. 9. Paris 1873, p. 424.
  • Antoinette Huon: Charles Philipon et la maison Aubert (1829-62). In: Etudes de presse 17, 1957, pp. 67-76.
  • Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le dix-neuvième siècle. Vol. 1. Paris 1961, p. 488.
  • Ursula E. Koch , Pierre-Paul Sagave : Le Charivari. The story of a Paris daily newspaper in the struggle for the republic (1832-1882). A document on Franco-German relations. Cologne 1984, p. 383
  • H. Blémont: Art. Huart, Louis. In: Dictionnaire de Biographie Française. Vol. 17. Paris 1989, col. 1385.
  • Ulrich Wirth: Article Louis Adrien Huart (1813-1865), publicist, writer and theater director, editor-in-chief of the French satirical magazine Le Charivari. In: Trier Biographical Lexicon . Edited by Heinz Monz. Trier 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ( available in numerous libraries according to WorldCat (French) OCLC 715539052 )