Yvonneck

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Yvonneck (* probably on February 26, 1874 in Nantes , † April 16, 1929 in Paris ) was a French chanson singer and film actor. His real name was Arthur Jullion , the variants Arthur Victor Jullien , Arthur Jullian and Arthur Julian also occur.

Life

The officer's son attended the cavalry school in Autun and was then a soldier with the 25th Dragoon Regiment in Tours . He reported to Madagascar , and later claims to have served in China and Abyssinia . After leaving the army, he studied at the Conservatory in Nantes, where he received a first prize for "Singing and Opera". At the beginning of the 20th century he began to appear in Breton costume in the café concerts in Paris, for the first time in the Théâtre des Capucines . His repertoire mainly included songs by the chansonnier Théodore Botrel , but also by Léon Durocher and others. As a Breton bard he had great success. In 1906, L'Album Musical dedicated an entire issue to him: Chansons de la mer (Chansons from the Sea), with a foreword by Léon Durocher. Among other things, he sang L'Étendard de la Pitié , a hymn to the Red Cross composed by Émile Wesly and texted by Durocher .

In an interview with Maurice Hamel , the singer reports that one day Botrel asked him to drop the title "Bard", since bards are also considered to be the originators of the works sung. Instead, he should call himself a “singer” (chanteur). In addition, Botrel wrote down an express ban on singing certain chansons he wrote. Yvonneck complied and has since written some of his texts himself.

Yvonneck recorded at least two chansons that the royalist and anti-Semitic Action française and their youth organization Camelots du roi used as propaganda, namely La Gueuse ("The beggar", a disparaging expression for the Third French Republic ) and La France bouge (" France moves ”, a“ battle song of the Camelots du roi ”). The motto of the photo for APGA was “APGA pour l'Action française”.

During the First World War , Yvonneck was initially drafted into the artillery . He gave concerts for the soldiers, later mainly for the American troops. After the war, he found access to the emerging film industry as an actor and played in a number of renowned films. His debut was in 1924 La Galérie des Monstres by Jaque Catelain , his most famous role was the Nonacourt in 1928 in Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (German title: Der Florentiner Hut ) by René Clair .

At the beginning of 1929 Yvonneck sustained an injury or illness (the obituaries differ, there is talk of a paralysis of the legs, but also of a broken leg). He feared that he would no longer receive film roles and would be a burden to his family; In addition, the suffering is said to have been very painful. This was probably the reason why he threw himself from the balcony of his apartment on the fifth floor on April 16, 1929.

outer appearance

Yvonneck was a tall, strong man. At the Festival of Artists from the Café Concerts in Paris in 1908, he won the run for artists weighing 100 kilograms or more in the Vélodrome Buffalo . In the sports illustrated La Vie au grand air you can find a photo of the route with Yvonneck at the top.

Several photos of Yvonneck in his Breton performance clothing are available in publications and on the Internet. A portrait of Yvonneck can be found on the title page of the chanson Complainte du Chalutier (German: "Fischer's complaint") from 1914. Maurice Hamel's article Yvonneck, chanteur breton from 1924 even contains a full- length picture showing the costume and especially the wide Breton belt can be seen. According to Jean-Louis Debauve, six other photos can be found in a report in the Revue Paris qui chante from June 25, 1905.

state of knowledge

Little is known about Yvonneck. Jean-Louis Debauve has used two sources for his brief account: the Revue Paris qui chante of June 25, 1905 and an article in the Pariser Illustrierte Comœdia of October 28, 1924, written by Maurice Hamel. Hamel's article is now available through Gallica .

literature

  • Jean-Louis Debauve: Le Chanteur Yvonneck. In: Les Cahiers de l'Iroise. No. 140, 1988, ISSN  0007-9898 , p. 229

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death can be determined precisely from the obituaries in Le Petit Parisien and Le Matin . Birth here to www.lesgensducinema.com ( deep link ), for the local indication, however, there is as yet no confirmation. The real name Jullion is given in both newspaper obituaries , as is the article Ce que sont devenues les vedettes du caf 'conc' in Le Petit Parisien of November 30, 1914, online . See also the registration of a Société à responsabilité limité (GmbH) for a Palais de la Coiffure (hairdresser's palace) in the Archives commerciales de la France of November 15, 1935, p. 4543, online ; one of the four involved, listed at Yvonneck's last address in Paris, is shown here as Arthur Jullion's widow. Jean-Louis Debauve's short description (see literature) does not provide any information on the date of birth, date of death and real name.
  2. ^ Maurice Hamel: Un transfuge du Café-Concert. Yvonneck, chanteur breton. In: Comœdia , October 28, 1924, p. 2.
  3. ↑ See the entry in the catalog of the French National Library .
  4. ^ Maurice Hamel: Un transfuge du Café-Concert. Yvonneck, chanteur breton. In: Comœdia , October 28, 1924, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Cf. Gérard Roig, Marc Monneraye: Le numérotage des phonogrammes Pathé - 1ère partie . In: Sonorités. No. 7, Juin 1983, pp. 33-37, online , in the page number of the electronic document, p. 17; see also: Raoul Blottière: Yvonneck: “La gueuse” (1909) , l'histgeobox, no. 251, November 13, 2011, online , there with a recording and a transcription of the chanson; Image of the plate with the emblem of Action française on phonobase.org: [1] ).
  6. ↑ Cf. Ce que sont devenues les vedettes du caf 'conc'. In: Le Petit Parisien of November 30, 1914, online .
  7. ^ JM: De la scene à la piste. In: La Vie au Grand Air, September 5, 1908, p. 169. Online on Gallica .
  8. ↑ Complainte du Chalutier , Music: V. Lark and H. Vié, Text: Yvonneck and H. Bly, Éditeurs A. and V. Vié Lark, Montrouge 1914. Online at Gallica .
  9. ^ Maurice Hamel: Un transfuge du Café-Concert. Yvonneck, chanteur breton. In: Comœdia , October 28, 1924, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Yvonneck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jullion, Arthur (real name); Jullian, Arthur; Julian, Arthur; Jullien, Arthur Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chanson singer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: February 26, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes , France
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1929
Place of death Paris , France