Joseph-Alphonse Esménard

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Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770, in Pélissanne – 25 June 1811, in Fondi) was a French poet, brother of the journalist Jean-Baptiste Esménard and the father of the artists Inès Esménard and Nathalie Elma d'Esménard.

Biography

In 1790, a year after the beginning of the

Prison du Temple. He was forced to emigrate that same year.[1]

He returned to France again after the

Leclerc on the Saint-Domingue expedition to put down the uprising of Toussaint Louverture. On his return from this expedition, he was put in charge of censorship in the imperial theatres, a posting he gained for being a protege of the minister of police, Anne Jean Marie René Savary. Soon after this, he left once again to follow Admiral Villaret de Joyeuse to Martinique, where he served as a writer for The Mercury.[1]

Esménard then came back to France, where he was censored of theatres and libraries and the

Académie française.[1]

He was exiled to Italy for a few months after publishing a satirical article against one of Napoleon's envoys to Russia in the Journal de l'Empire. On his return trip, he died in a carriage accident at Fondi, near Naples.[1]

Works

Esménard is known for the poem entitled La Navigation, first published in eight verses in 1805, then re-edited to six verses in 1806.[citation needed]

Esménard also wrote Le triomphe de Trajan (The Triumph of Trajan), a three-act opera with music by

Victor-Joseph-Étienne de Jouy, with music by Gaspare Spontini
. He also wrote several verses, collected as La Couronne poétique de Napoléon (1807).

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Joseph-Alphonse Esménard," Académie Française website, retrieved 23 March 2022

External links

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