Lucien Millevoye
Lucien Millevoye (born August 1, 1850 in Grenoble , † March 25, 1918 in Paris ) was a French journalist and politician.
Life
Millevoye was the grandson of the poet Charles Hubert Millevoye and the son of a president of the appellate court . From 1872 to 1875 he worked as a lawyer in Lyon , where he was a member of the city administration from 1875 to 1880. He resigned because of the expulsion of the Jesuit order from France and then successfully devoted himself to political journalism.
He soon became a confidante of General Georges Boulanger and worked on the program of the Boulangists who called for a war of retaliation against Germany. In 1889 he ran successfully as a member of the National Assembly for the Boulangists in the Somme department . In 1889 he publicly attacked Georges Clemenceau , claiming that he was an English agent. After that, Millevoye was forced to resign from his parliamentary mandate.
He is known to this day through his secret relationship with the Irish nationalist and feminist Maud Gonne . He had sent this as a courier to the Russian court of the tsars in 1887 in order to promote a Franco-Russian alliance against Germany. From the relationship, because of which he left his wife Adrienne, the early deceased son Georges (1892-1894) and the daughter Iseult Gonne (1894-1954) emerged, who was adored and courted by many writers at a young age, u. a. by Ezra Pound , Lennox Robinson (Irish playwright, 1886-1958), Liam O'Flaherty and William Butler Yeats , who was also often considered Iseult's father. Together, Millevoye and Maud Gonne campaigned for the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine and Irish independence. The relationship ended in 1899 or 1900.
Millevyoe published the French-language Irish nationalist newspaper L'Irlande Libre in 1898 . As editor-in-chief of the nationalist and anti-Semitic newspaper La Patrie financed by the Irish-born Bonapartist politician Edmond Archdeacon , he was one of the main contributors to the Dreyfus affair . In 1897, in the course of the affair, he dueled with the Austrian publicist Paul Goldmann ; the duel ended lightly. In 1898 he was elected as a member of the 16th arrondissement in Paris and remained so until his death.
literature
- Anthony J. Jordan: The Yeats-Gonne-MacBride Triangle . Westport Books, Dublin 2000, ISBN 0-95-244474-7 .
Web links
- Ireland's heroine who had sex in her baby's tomb - BBC Magazine, August 31, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ See web link: BBC Magazine, August 31, 2015.
- ↑ Article Paul Goldmann . In: Killy Literature Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 4: Fri-Hap. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021389-8 , p. 310.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Millevoye, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grenoble , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1918 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |