Henri Eugène Amédée Beauclair (December 21, 1860 at Lisieux – May 11, 1919 in Paris) was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He was the chief editor of the daily newspaper Le Petit Journal from 1906 to 1914. He worked for a number of publications, including Lutèce, Le Chat noir, Le Procope, journal parlé (1893–1898), and Le Sagittaire, a monthly revue of art and literature (1900–1901).
He had a taste and an unquestionable talent for satire and pastiche. He collaborated with poet Gabriel Vicaire, with whom he wrote the famous Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette (1885), a parody of the Decadent movement in poetry which caused several months of vigorous debate within Parisian literary circles.
Works
- Poetry
- L'Eternelle chanson, triolets (1884)
- Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette (1885)
- Les Horizontales (1885)
- Pentecôte (1886)
- Novels and essays
- Le Pantalon de Madame Desnou (1886)
- Ohé ! l'Artiste (1887)
- La Ferme à Goron (1888)
- Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan (1890)
- Tapis vert (1897)
References
- This article is translated from the French Misplaced Pages.
External links
- Works by or about Henri Beauclair at the Internet Archive
- From the Electronic Library of Lisieux: Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette; Les Horizontales ;Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan ;La ferme à Goron; Ville natale; Ohé ! l'Artiste; Le Pantalon de Madame Desnou; L’Éternelle chanson.
- Gallica : La ferme à Goron; Ohé ! l'Artiste; Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan; Tapis vert.
- Un chef-d'œuvre du pastiche by G. Delatramblais (1924).