Charles-Louis Philippe

Charles-Louis Philippe , born with Cérilly (To combine) the August 4th 1874 and died in Paris the December 21st 1909, is a French novelist.

Biography

Wire of a poor sabot-maker, Charles-Louis Philippe could continue studies thanks to a purse, but there always remained interdependent of humble, writing for example with Maurice Barrès: “My grandmother was beggar, my father, who was a child full with pride, begged when it was too young to gain his bread. I belong to a generation which did not pass yet by the books. It is necessary that I remind to you that it is in me truths more pressing than those which you call “the French truths”. You separate nationalities, thus you differentiate the world, me I separate the classes. We were walled like the poor and, sometimes, when the Life entered on our premises, it carried a stick. We had like resource only to love us the ones the others. This is why I write always more to tend that my head does not order it. I believe being in France the first of a race of the poor which went in the letters. ” After his baccalaureat, Charles-Louis Philippe prepares without success the entrance examinations to the Polytechnic school and the central École, then goes up to Paris and enters the administration of the department of the the Seine. From now on to the shelter of the need, it leads to Paris a modest life, in its small apartment of the island Saint-Louis.

He writes initially prose poems, but quickly gives up poetry for the fiction and publishes in account of author Four stories of poor love (1897), then the Good Madeleine and the Poor Marie (1898) and the Mother and the child (1900). An adventure with a young prostitute gives him the idea of a novel of the Parisian pavement: it will be Bubu de Montparnasse (1901), which is very received. the Father Partridge (1902 follows, had a presentiment of by Octave Mirbeau for the first Prix Goncourt, but published too early to be able to contribute; then Marie Donadieu (1904, which have little success, and Croquignole (1906, table of the morose life of a small employee, which does not obtain the Prix Goncourt, in spite of the support of Mirbeau. Philippe belongs to the “group of Carnetin” - name of a jointly rented house, close to Lagny, on the Marne - with Francis the Jordan, Marguerite Audoux, Leon Werth and Leon-Paul Fargue. He is also dependant of friendship with André Gide and Valery Larbaud. He dies prematurely on December 21st, 1909, of typhoid complicated of a meningitis.

Novels

Four stories of poor love (1897).
the Good Madeleine and the Poor Marie (1898).
the Mother and the child , account of his childhood (1900).
Bubu de Montparnasse (1901).
the Father Partridge (1902).
Marie Donadieu (1904).
Croquignole (1906).
In the small town (1910).
Letters of youth (1911).
Charles Blanchard (1913).
Tales of the Morning (1916).
Chronic of Wild duck (1923).
complete Works , 5 volumes, with a study of David Roe, Ipomée, Mills, 1986.

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