Charles Buet
Charles Buet is a writer and French journalist born with Chambéry (Savoy) on October 23rd, 1846 and died in Paris on November 23rd, 1897.
He was the author of historical novels whose action was often dependant on Savoy and its legends. He wrote articles under many pseudonyms: Gaston Wood-Dupre, Némo Captain, Vindex, in particular.
Biography
Wire of a grocer of Saint-Jean-with-Maurienne, Charles Buet made his studies with the college of Saint Pierre-D' Albigny before briefly studying with the Faculty of Lyon, and becoming corresponding Courrier of the Alps and Journal of Savoy . In 1867, it was engaged with the Universe , newspaper ultramontane and readily polemical directed by Louis Veuillot. It is subject to also the influence of the catholic philosopher Ernest Hello.
Buet made a short stay with the Meeting, where he collaborated in the local clerical newspaper the Trunk and, shown by competitor periodicals of sex cases, was at the origin of riots which took place at the end of November 1868, after he had to leave the island. It published a work of memories on this stay ( Three months in the Bourbon island, Journal of a student ), like two books on Madagascar, where it had never gone. He also travelled in Egypt where he met his future wife, also Savoyard and sister of the explorers Ambroise and Jerome Poncet. Starting from 1869, it published many novels with claims morals, historical novels, tales, and made play in 1881 a play, the Priest , with the Théâtre of the Door Saint Martin's day. Deeply catholic and preserving, its works are passably obsolete today.
In Paris, he attended the Banier coffee, celebrates literary coffee which was then held Rue of the Holy Father and held a literary living room Avenue of Breteuil (VIIe district) where he received many catholic writers, readily polemists, which exerted on him an appreciable effect in its articles. Met there Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly, Leon Bloy (with which it was annoyed in 1892 in connection with the tomb of Barbey d' Aurevilly), François Coppée, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Laurent Tailhade, Jean Moréas, the occultist Stanislas de Guaïta, the professional singer on the return Roselia Rousseil, but as all Bohemian as its political inclinations carried more towards anarchism, like Felix Fénéon, Paul and Victor Margueritte or Oscar Méténier. Huysmans, which took Buet like model of Mr. Chantelouve in Là-Bas , evokes this heteroclite and variegated crowd: “ oddest rowed people: prigs of sacristy and poets of caboulots, journalists and actors, partisans of the Naundorff cause and canvassers in equivocal sciences… Chantelouve was cordial, of grassouillet spirit, pressing spirit. It worried well a little the analysts by his glance of bagne which passed sometimes under the tinted lenses of sound binocle. ” As for Lorraine Jean, it wrote with Oscar Méténier about Buet: “ It is too ugly, too low of instinct, too sexton of small church… It is vicious with gloutonnery by selfishness and cochonaillant. ”
Financial problems forced it to leave Paris to turn over in Savoy, with Thonon-the-Baths. It écivit of the historical novels not stripped of invention which had a certain success. It was accepted by the learned societies local as Savoyard historian and became member of the Académie of Savoy, vice-president of the Academy chablaisienne.
In 1894, it went back to Paris where it died, in 1897, at the 51 years, four months age after its wife.
Books
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