Victor d'Arlincourt

Charles Victor Prévôst, Viscount d'Arlincourt (born September 28, 1789 at Mérantais Castle, Magny-les-Hameaux , Yvelines department , † January 22, 1856 in Paris ) was a French writer .

Live and act

His father was the tax farmer Louis Adrian Prévost d'Arlincourt († 1794).

Prévôst d'Arlincourt became a great admirer of Napoléon Bonaparte early on . He joined him and partly took part in his invasion of Spain .

When Napoleon had to abdicate after the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Prévôst d'Arlincourt became a supporter of the Bourbons and supported King Louis XVIII. This decision earned Prévost d'Arlincourt the title of Viscount and the opportunity to acquire their own castle.

reception

As a writer, he first appeared with an epic Charlemagne ou la Caroldide , the first part of which he dedicated to Napoléon, but which he completed to glorify the Restoration (1818, 2 volumes). The best of his novels is Le Solitaire (1821, German: The mountain dweller or crime, penance and love ), which has been published many times and translated many times.

His novels, written after 1830, polemicize against the bourgeois kingdom . In 1848 he wrote passionate legitimist pamphlets , of which Dieu le vent experienced 64 editions. He was unsuccessful on stage.

Works (selection)

Novels

Ipsiboe . 1823.
L'Étrangère . 1825.
Les trois chateaux. Histoire contemporaine . 1840.
Ida and Nathalie . 1841.
Les fiancés de la mort. Histoire contemporaine . 1850.

Plays

Le siège de Paris. Tragédie en cinq actes . 1826
La peste noire, ou Paris en 1334. Drama en cinq actes et sept tableaux . 1845

Non-fiction

Les trois royaumes . 1844.
L'Italie rouge ou histoire des révolutions . 1850.

literature

Virginie Ancelot : Le salon de vicomte d'Arlincourt . In: Diess .: Les salons de Paris. Foyer éteints . Éditions Tardieu, Paris 1858, pp. 207–233.

Individual evidence

↑ First performance on April 8, 1826, Théâtre Français .
↑ First performance on April 7, 1845, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique .

Web links

Commons : Charles-Victor Prévost d'Arlincourt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Victor d'Arlincourt in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Arlincourt, Victor d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arlincourt, Charles Victor Prévôt d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French author
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Mérantais Castle, Magny-les-Hameaux , Yvelines department
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1856
Place of death	Paris

[1] First performance on April 8, 1826, Théâtre Français .

[2] First performance on April 7, 1845, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique .