Armand Barthet

Armand Barthet , born with Besancon the April 15th 1820 and died in Ivry-sur-Seine the February 14th 1874, is a dramatic author, poet, novelist and journalist French.

Satirical journalist, secretary of Arsene Houssaye, it attends the literary living rooms and collaborates in the Impartial one of Besancon , in the Artist and the Grand Living room .

Its first part, the Sparrow of Lesbie , a comedy inspired of Catulle, which one rented “the grace and youthful promptness”, was worth to him a certain success at the time of its first representation to the Comédie-Française in 1849 with Rachel in the main role.

Two portraits

Charles Monselet

Mr. Barthet is this young man who had good fortune to see playing his first comedy by Miss Rachel; since then, it gave to the bookstore a volume of news, favorably accommodated criticism and of the public, as well as a volume of worms: the Fleur of the Basket . Mr. Armand Barther is pleasant family of the happy poets; he never cries, it is hardly if he sighs. As for the man, it is other thing. Inhabitant of Franche-Comté, nature outwards, Barthet appear each evening in the Lepelletier Couch, where it makes a din of all the devils and where it occurs in impossible toilets: cap of racing, strawberry in the Henri III, pants with bridge, embroidered cuffs. Moreover, Barthet has what one calls the unhappy hand, i.e. it breaks all that it touches; it was formerly the fear of the evenings of Victor Hugo, at which it was only going to reverse, while greeting or while being turned over, romantic and fragile curiosities with which the living room of the place Royale was decorated.

François Porch

Barthet had become famous day at the following day to have had the unhoped-for chance to make play French by Rachel a small act in worms, the Sparrow of Lesbie , and to have broken at Victor Hugo, place Royale, the day when it was presented there, superb a négrillon porcelain, red and gold. One evening this marionette was caught of quarrel with Baudelaire on a question of literature. The argument being envenimée, Baudelaire accepted a slap by which it remained astonished. A meeting was decided. The witnesses of Baudelaire were Marc Trapadoux, “black and length, known as Monselet, like a stick of liquorice”, and another bomme of letters of the name of Lebloys; witnesses of Barthet, a compatriot with him, a warrant officer called Mignot, and Monselet itself. To tell the truth, Baudelaire, though slapped, did not feel, under the insult, the mood of Don Diègue; seeing ridiculous business, he had readily regretted its mocking remarks, but Barthet, in spite of the bellows which he had given, claimed with the quality of offended and wanted in découdre absolutely. The duel, however, did not take place, the witnesses, people of good sense, tired of this comedy, having all the four resigned successively.

Works

New: Pierre and Paquette. Henriette. The Nest of swallows. The Seasons (1852)
the Fleur of the basket , poetries (1853)
Horace. Strong odes, translated into worms by Mr. Armand Barthet (1861)
Montauciel , poem (1870)
a fatal Passion , novel (2 volumes, 1886)

; Theater

the Sparrow of Lesbie , comedy in 1 act, worms, Paris, Comédie-Française, March 22nd, 1849
the Way of Corinth , comedy in 3 acts, worms (1853)
Vault and Bachaumont , Op3era Comique in 1 act, booklet of Armand Barthet, music of Jules Cressonois, Paris, Theater of the Op3era Comique, June 18th, 1858
complete Theater: The Sparrow of Lesbie. The Way of Corinth. The Hour of the shepherd (1861)

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