François Coppée
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| Born | François Edouard Joachim Coppée 26 January 1842 Paris, France |
| Died | 23 May 1908 (aged 66) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | French |
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François Edouard Joachim Coppée (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ədwaʁ ʒɔakim kɔpe]; 26 January 1842 – 23 May 1908) was a French poet and novelist.
Biography
Coppée was born in
After holding a post in the library of the senate, Coppée was chosen in 1878 as archivist of the
Coppée was famed as le poète des humbles (the poet of the humble). His verse and prose focus on plain expressions of emotion, patriotism, the joy of young love, and the pitifulness of the poor.
Coppée was also interested in public affairs, joining the most violent section of the Nationalist movement (while remaining contemptuous of the apparatus of democracy) and taking a leading part against Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus affair.[4] He was one of the founders of the Ligue de la patrie française,[3] which originated in 1898 with three young academics, Louis Dausset, Gabriel Syveton and Henri Vaugeois, who wanted to show that Dreyfusism was not accepted by all at the University.[5] They launched a petition that attacked Émile Zola and what many saw as an internationalist, pacifist left-wing conspiracy.[6] Charles Maurras gained the interest of the writer Maurice Barrès, and the movement gained the support of three eminent personalities: the geographer Marcel Dubois, the poet François Coppée and the critic and literature professor Jules Lemaître.[5]
Criticism
The poet
The poet Lautréamont cited his Grève de Forgerons in the list of the "penpushers" to be absolutely ignored (Poèsie, Part I).
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Poetry
- Le Reliquaire (1866)
- Intimités (1867)
- Poémes modernes (among them: L'Angelus, Le Père, La Grève de forgerons) (1867-9)
- Les Humbles (1872)
- Le Cahier rouge (1874)
- Olivier (1875)
- L'Exilée (1876)
- Contes en vers (1881)
- Poèmes et récits (1886)
- Arrière-saison (1887)
- Paroles sincères (1890)
- Dans la prière et la lutte
- Vers français
- Salut, Petit Jesus
″Pour Toujours" (1892)
- A tes yeux
Plays
- Le Passant (1869) Translated into Portuguese by Alves Crespo (playwright, 1847–1907) as Sonho and published in 1905.
- Deux Douleurs (1870)
- Fais ce que Dois (1871)
- L'Abandonnée (1871)
- Les Bijoux de la Délivrance (1872)
- Le Rendez-Vous (1872)
- Prologue d'Ouverture pour les Matinées de la Gaîté (1874)
- Le Luthier de Crémone (1876)
- La Guerre de Cent Ans (1877)
- Le Tresor (1879)
- La Bataille d'Hernani (1880)
- La Maison de Molière (1880)
- Madame de Maintenon(1881)
- Severo Torelli (1883) Translated into Portuguese by Jaime Victor and Macedo Papança, Visconde de Monsaraz, and performed in Lisbon at the National Theatre in 1887. Published in the same year.
- Les Jacobites (1885)
- Le Pater (1889) Translated into Portuguese by Margarida de Sequeira as O Pater.
- Pour la couronne (1895) Translated into English by John Davidson as For the Crown and performed at the Lyceum Theatre, London, in 1896. For the Crown was performed at Covent Garden as a prize-winning opera The Cross and the Crescent with music by Colin McAlpin in 1903.
Prose works
- Une Idylle pendant le siège (1874)
- Toute une jeunesse (1890)
- Les Vrais riches (1892)
- Le Coupable (1896). Translated into portuguese by Jorge de Abreu (1874–1932) as O criminoso (Lisboa: Empresa Lusitana, 356 p.; 16 cm.; col. Selecta)
- Mon franc-parler (1893–96) (articles)
- La Bonne Souffrance (1898)
Works in English translation
- (1890). Ten Tales.
- (1893). True Riches.
- (1894). Blessed Are the Poor.
- (1896). Coppée and Maupassant Tales.
- (1901). Tale for Christmas, and Other Seasons.
- (1905). A Romance of Youth.
- (1910). "A Piece of Bread," in International Short Stories.
- (1915). Pater Noster.
- (1915). "The Wounded Soldier in the Convent," in War Poems and Other Translations, by Lord Curzon.
- (1931). The Lord's Prayer.
See also
Notes
- ^ Bernhardt, My Double Life, London: Heinemann, 1907
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 101–102.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911, p. 102.
- ^ Wilson, Nelly (1978). Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-century France. Cambridge University Press, p. 191.
- ^ a b Pierrard 1998, p. 180.
- ^ Conner 2014, p. 160.
- ^ Examples can be found in the collection Promenades et Intérieurs.
- ^ Hackett, Cecil Arthur (1981). Rimbaud, a Critical Introduction. CUP Archive.
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coppée, François Édouard Joachim". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 101–102.
- Conner, Tom (2014-04-24), The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual, McFarland, ISBN 978-0-7864-7862-0, retrieved 2016-03-08
- Pierrard, Pierre (1998), Les Chrétiens et l'affaire Dreyfus, Editions de l'Atelier, ISBN 978-2-7082-3390-4, retrieved 2016-03-07
Further reading
- Claretie, Jules (1883). Fr. Coppée. Paris: Maison Quantin.
- Cotte, Alfred M. (1886). "François Coppée," The Catholic World, Vol. 43, No. 254, pp. 196–205.
- Crawford, Virginia M. (1908). "François Coppée," The Catholic Thing, Vol. LXXXVIII, pp. 182–192.
- Druilhet, Georges (1902). Un Poète Français. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre.
- France, Anatole (1922). "François Coppée". In: On Life and Letters. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., pp. 277–284.
- Gaubert, Ernest (1906). François Coppée. Paris: E. Sansot & Cie.
- Gauthier-Ferrières, Léon Adolphe (1908). François Coppée et son Oeuvre. Paris: Société du Mercure de France.
- Lescure, Mathurin de (1889). François Coppée: l'Homme, la Vie et l'Oeuvre, 1842–1889. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre.
- Ransome, Arthur (1913). "The Retrospection of François Coppée." In: Portraits and Speculations. London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 71–86.
- Reilly, Joseph J. (1920). "François Coppée Once More," The Catholic Thing, Vol. CXI, pp. 614–626.
- Schoen, Henri (1909). François Coppée: l'Homme et le Poète. Paris: Librairie Fischbacher.
External links
Works by or about François Coppée at Wikisource- Works by François Coppée at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about François Coppée at Internet Archive
- Works by François Coppée at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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