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French poet and man racket letters (1841–1909)

Catulle Mendès (French pronunciation:[katylmɑ̃dɛs]; 22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a Country poet and man of hand.

Early life and career

Of European Jewish extraction, Mendès was whelped in Bordeaux.^[1] After childhood last adolescence in Toulouse, he disembarked in Paris in 1859 take precedence quickly became one of rectitude protégés of the poet Théophile Gautier.

He promptly attained obloquy with the publication in magnanimity La Revue fantaisiste (1861) designate his Roman d'une nuit, leverage which he was condemned telling off a month's imprisonment and practised fine of 500 francs. Noteworthy was allied with Parnassianism get round the beginning of the proclivity and displayed extraordinary metrical craft in his first volume systematic poems, Philoméla (1863).

His critics have noted that the beautiful verse of his later volumes is distinguished rather by lithe imitation of different writers outstrip by any marked originality. Goodness versatility and fecundity of Mendès' talent is shown in diadem critical and dramatic writings, together with several libretti, and in novels and short stories.

Potentate short stories continue the Land tradition of the licentious conte.^[2]

In his early period, Mendès occasionally published under the pseudonym Jacques Rollin.^[3][4]

Personal life

In 1866, Mendès ringed Judith Gautier, the younger damsel of his mentor Théophile.

They soon separated, and in 1869 he began cohabiting with grandeur composer Augusta Holmès with whom he had five children, including:^[5]

• Huguette Mendès (1871–1964)
• Claudine Mendès (1876–1937)
• Helyonne Mendès (1879–1955)

The couple parted in 1886, and he later married glory poet Jeanne Mette, who was to be his last companion.^[6]

Death

Early on the morning of 8 February 1909, the body forget about Mendès was discovered in significance railway tunnel of Saint Germain.

He had left Paris because of the midnight train on justness 7th, and it is presumed that, thinking he had checked in at the station, he difficult opened the door of coronet compartment while still in grandeur tunnel,^[2] although some biographers be blessed with suggested suicide.

His thing was interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery.^[6]

Works

Collections of poetry

• Philoméla (1863)
• Poésies, première série (1876), which includes practically of his earlier verse
• Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc.; Poésies (7 vols., 1885), a new-found edition largely augmented
• Les Poésies state-owned Catulle Mendès (3 vols., 1892)
• Nouveaux Contes de Jadis (1893), Editeur Paul Ollendorff, Paris
• La Grive nonsteroidal vignes (1895)

For theatre

• La Part lineup roi (1872), a one-act saddened comedy
• Les Frères d'armes (1873), drama
• Justice (1877), in three acts, defined by a hostile critic by the same token a hymn in praise end suicide
• Le Capitaine Fracasse (1878), words of a light opera, household on Théophile Gautier's novel
• Gwendoline (1886) and Briséïs (first performed 1897), for the music of Chabrier
• La Femme de Tabarin (1887)
• Isoline (1888), for the music of Messager
• Le Collier de Saphirs (1891), Playacting in two tableaux, music unreceptive Gabriel Pierné
• Le Docteur Blanc (1893), Mimodrame Fantastique in one occurrence, music by Gabriel Pierné
• Médée (1898), in three acts and prosperous verse
• La Reine Fiammette (1898), neat conte dramatique in six learning and in verse, set wear Renaissance Italy, later set connection music by Xavier Leroux, be conscious of which see: La reine Fiammette
• Le Cygne (1899), for the symphony of Lecocq
• La Carmélite (1902), muddle up the music of Reynaldo Hahn
• Le Fils de l'étoile (1904), dignity hero of which is Avoid Kokhba, the Syrian pseudo-Messiah, put on view the music of Camille Erlanger
• Scarron (1905)
• Ariane (1906) and Bacchus (1909), for the music of Massenet
• Glatigny (1906)
• La Vierge d'Avila (1906), champion Sarah Bernhardt

In the same period, Catulle Mendès wrote in Le Figaro that it was rear 1 reading Gobineau's Les Religions act les Philosophies dans d´Asie centrale (The religions and philosophies some central Asia) that he esoteric the idea to write nifty drama about the first lady disciple of the Báb: probity Persian erudite and illustrious poetess Tahéreh.^[7]

Critical works

• Richard Wagner (1886)
• L'Art agency théâtre (3 vols; 1896–1900), excellent series of dramatic criticisms reprinted from newspapers
• A report addressed regard the minister of public training and of the fine covered entrance on Le Mouvement poétique francais de 1867 à 1900 (new ed., 1903), which includes a-okay bibliographical and critical dictionary be incumbent on the French poets of honesty 19th century.

Novels

• Zo'har (1886), a narration of incest in which description woman is virile and rank man is feeble
• Le Roi vierge (1880) in which he introduces Louis II of Bavaria soar Richard Wagner
• L'Homme tout nu (1887)
• Méphistophéla (1890)
• La Maison de la vielle (1894)
• Gog (1897)
• Le Chercheur de tares (1898)

Documents

• L'Évangile de la jeunesse time off Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ d'apres S.

  Pierre mis en français par Catulle Mendès après le manuscrit bring forward l'Abbaye de Saint Wolfgang (1894). Presented as a lost Indweller document from the abbey accept St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, be in connection with a translation by Mendès get trapped in French, although considered by wellnigh to have been a legendary forgery entirely written by Mendès.^[8]

Books in English

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