Paul-Armand Silvestre
Paul-Armand Silvestre (born April 18, 1837 in Paris , † February 19, 1901 in Toulouse ) was a French writer and literary critic.
Silvestre studied at the École polytechnique with the intention of later making a career in the army. He was able to complete this degree in 1859, but his career as an officer was not fulfilled. In 1870 he got a job in the Ministry of Finance and was so successful there that he was accepted into the Legion of Honor in 1896 .
In the same year Silvestre was appointed "Inspecteur des Beaux-Arts". At that time he was friends with some well-known representatives of the Parnassians . At the latest when Alphonse Lemerre asked him to work on the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain , he was one of them.
Eight weeks before his 64th birthday, Paul-Armand Silvestre died after a brief illness on February 19, 1901 in Toulouse.
Works (selection)
- Poetry
- La chanson des heures . 1878
- Le chemin des étoiles . 1885
- Les renaissances . 1870
- Rimes neuves ett vieilles . 1866
- Plays
- Sappho. Drama . 1881
- Henry VIII (music by Camille Saint-Saëns )
- Drames sacres (music by Charles Gounod )
literature
- Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). Kröner, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-520-38801-4 , p. 868.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul-Armand Silvestre in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silvestre, Paul-Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1901 |
| Place of death | Toulouse |