Henri de Latouche
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Hyacinthe-Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de Latouche, commonly known as Henri de Latouche (2 February 1785 – 9 March 1851) was a French poet and novelist known for his publication of André Chénier and early encouragement of George Sand. (His family name is also seen as "Thabaud de La Touche" and even sometimes "Delatouche".)
Life
He was born at La Châtre (Indre).[1]
Among his works may be distinguished his comedies: Projets de sagesse (1811), and, in collaboration with Émile Deschamps, Selmours de Florian (1818), which ran for a hundred nights; also La Reine d'Espagne (1831), which proved too indecent for the public taste; a novel, Fragoletta ou Naples et Paris en 1799 (1829), which attained success of notoriety; La Vallée aux loups (1833), a volume of prose essays and verse; and two volumes of poems, Les Adieus, (1843) and Les Agrestes (1844).[1]
Latouche's chief claim to remembrance is that he revealed to the world the genius of
Latouche was guilty of more than one literary fraud. He caused a licentious story of his own to be attributed to the
After 1830 he edited
The last twenty years of his life were spent in retirement at Val d’Aulnay.[1]
References
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Latouche, Hyacinthe Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 274. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Works by Henri de Latouche at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)