Charles Nodier

Charles Nodier (born Jean-Charles-Emmanuel Nodier with Besancon) (April 29th 1780 - January 27th 1844 with Paris) is a academician and writer Romancier French to which one allots a great importance in the birth of the romantic movement.

Biography

He studies under the direction of Euloge Schneider the governor Jacobin of Alsace and is interested in the natural history.

In 1791, following the nomination of his/her father at the position of president of departmental Criminal Court (revolutionary Tribunal), it makes at 11 years a patriotic speech with the Société of the friends of the Constitution (Club of the Jacobins) of his birthplace. This first exploit with the service of the French revolution will not prevent it from having throughout its life of the openly professed feelings Royaliste S which will create troubles under the to him First Empire. This royalism does not prevent it from attending the political circles Libéraux and even republican S. Nodier is especially basically opposed to the despotic capacity .

Of her childhood, his/her daughter tells that it was studied very early by his father. If it shows taste for the old Littérature and letters, never it will not manage to be interested in the field of the Mathématiques and the pure Sciences, though it were extremely set on Entomologie - he is member, thanks to the influence of his friend Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent, of the entomological Société of France very little time after his foundation - of Géologie and Botanique - he writes in 1821 with same Bory of Saint-Vincent an integral work of the remarks on the fauna, the Flore and the Géologie of the French coasts and English (its “ Walks” quoted below.) “Nothing laid out it with incredulity like the facts considered without counterpart”, says it.

Inter alia anecdotes on her father, she tells that the young Charles, old ten years, fell passionately in love with a delicious countess to which he acknowledged his feelings in a ticket, asking him an appointment that it granted to him. The indicator to arrive, it was thrown to its knees. The lady raised it, and a formidable smacking gave him. Nodier kept adventure, known as his daughter, an extreme timidity towards the women.

Starting from 1796, it is student at the central school of Besancon where it takes part in the creation of a Secret society called the Philadelphes .

It is named assistant librarian of the central School of the Doubs in 1798. An article criticizes with regard to the Jacobins makes him lose this station in 1800.

It publishes in 1802 a novel, “Stella or proscribed”. It comes then frequently to Paris. He is imprisoned in 1803 to have written two years earlier “Napoléone”, a lampoon in worms criticizing the first Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. After its release the following year, it is of return to Besancon.

In 1808 it opens a course of literature to Dole and, the same year, it marries Désirée Charve. Its literary career continues in 1808 with the publication of a “Dictionary of the French onomatopoeias”. In 1809, he is literary assistant of the English writers to sir Herbert Croft and Lady Mary Hamilton which live with Amiens.

Dice 1809, it is in Laybach (Ljubljana) in It, capital of the Dalmates provinces of the French Empire as a municipal librarian, secretary of the politician Fouché, like writer of the official Télégraphe , official journal of the Provinces it. Nowadays, the French Institute of Ljubljana bears its name. It is where it outlines its novel " Jean Sbogar" (published in 1818).

It is of return to Paris in 1814 with his wife and her Marie daughter where it is anobli by Louis XVIII which will also confer to him in 1822 the Légion of honor. He becomes writer of the Journal of DEBATEs .

1818 sees the publication of “Jean Sbogar”. 1819 sees it joining the camp legitimist and taking part in the newspaper the white Flag .

In 1821, it publishes Smarra or the Demons of the night . Then during the summer, it accomplishes a voyage in Scotland. The account is published by it in Promenade of Dieppe to the mountains of Scotland . It takes part in the newspaper Daily the , in which it presents to the readers works Walter Scott, Rabelais, Marot, and also Lamartine, Byron and Victor Hugo.

It publishes in 1822 Trilby or the imp of Argail , a tale of fantasy located in Scotland and which will inspire Adolphe Nourrit for the booklet of the ballet the Sylphid .

It is named in 1824 librarian of the Bibliothèque of the Arsenal to Paris, the library of the count d' Artois, future Charles X, with the sacring of which it assists the same year in company of Victor Hugo. This station is the occasion which enables him to hold a literary living room, the “Coterie”, and to promote the Romantisme. Alexandre Dumas describes this living room in its memories and all the futures great names of the French romantic literature form part of it. After us to have spoken about the charm with which Nodier could tell some account, the author of the Three Musketeers continues as follows: “ One did not applaud, not, one does not applaud the murmur of a river, the song of a bird, the perfume of a flower. But the extinguished murmur, the disappeared song, the evaporated perfume, one listened, one waited, one still wished. But Nodier was let slip gently of the casing of the chimney into its large armchair; he smiled, he turned towards Lamartine or Hugo : “Enough of prose like that, said it ; do worms, worms, go? ” And without being made request, one or the other poet, of his place, the hands supported on the file of an armchair or the assured shoulders against the skirting, dropped from its mouth the flood harmonious and pressed poetry… ” It is during one of these meetings that was recited for the first time the famous Sonnet of Arvers.

Continuing its activities of literary criticism, it starts to write in the Revue of Paris in 1829.

In 1830, it publishes a curious imagination inspired by Laurence Sterne, the History of king de Bohême and his seven castles , then Of some phenomena of the sleep .

1832 sees the publication of the Fairy to the crumbs , of Jean-François the Bluestockings and the beginning of the edition of its complete Œuvres which will include/understand 14 volumes.

He is elected with the French Academy in 1833 with seat 25 to replace Jean-Louis Laya. The following year it founds the Bulletin of the bibliophile .

It then carries out finally an existence far from the tumults, recognized by its pars and appreciated government. Its post of librarian of the Arsenal gives him access to many rare books and time to devote itself to the study of the multiple subjects which interest it.

He dies in Paris the January 27th 1844 at 63 years. He is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in a tomb very close to that which will come to occupy some time later Honore de Balzac.

Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset and Holy-Beuve will recognize its influence. It largely took part in the company of redécouverte of the French poetry of XVIème century, giving to the last style Ronsard and Duvergnac.

Its poem the Old Marine , published in 1832 in the review the Talisman , is “a disconcerting anticipation of the drunk Bateau which it reader in a mysterious hallucination deriving with the liking from flow from its splendid worms”.

Works

Charles Nodier was one of the most prolific authors of the French language. The list below shows only one small portion of its publications.

1798 : Essay on the use of the antennas in the insects
1800: Thoughts of Shakespeare extracted from its works
1801: entomological Bibliography
1802: Napoléone , lampoon
1802: Stella or proscribed the , Romance
1803: the painter of Salzburg, newspaper of the emotions of a suffering , Romance heart
1804: Prophecy against Albion
1804: A tentative a young bard , collection of poetry
1806: the Sad ones, or mixtures drawn from the shelves of one committed suicide
1808: Dictionary of the French onomatopoeias
1808: Apotheoses and imprécations of Pythagore
1810: Archeology or universal system of the languages
1812: Questions of legal literature
1815: History of the secret societies of the army
1815: Napoleon and his constitutions
1816: January the twenty and one
1818: Jean Sbogar , history of a gangster it mysterious
1819: Therese Aubert , love story during the Vendean wars
1820: the Vampire , melodrama
1820: Mixtures of literature and criticism , 2 volumes
1820: Adele , novel
1820: picturesque and romantic Voyages in old France , with the Baron Taylor,
1820: Romance, new and mixtures, 4 volumes
1821: Smarra, or demons of the night , tale of fantasy
1821: Walk of Dieppe to the mountains of Scotland
1821: the Informer , drama
1821: Bertram, or the castle of Saint-Aldobrand , tragedy
1822: Trilby or the Imp of Argail , tale of fantasy
1823: Test on hydrogen gas and the various modes of illumination
1823: universal Dictionary of the French language
1826: Greek-Latin Library crowned of Brace with saint Thomas d' Aquin
1827 and 1829: various Poetries
1828: Faust , drama
1829: Mixtures drawn from a small library
1830: History of king de Bohême and his seven castles
1830: Of some phenomena of the sleep
1831: Memories, episodes and portraits to be used for the history of the Revolution and the Empire , 2 volumes
1832: the Fairy with the crumbs , tale of fantasy
1832: Miss de Marsan , tale of fantasy
1832: Jean-François the Bluestockings
1832: Daydreams literary, morals and fantastic
1832: Memories of youth
1833: the last banquet of Of Gironde the
1833: Treasures of broad beans and flowers of the peas
1834: elementary Concepts of linguistics
1834: Of the factitious language called Macaronique
1834: Mr. Cazotte
1835: the Peninsula, picturesque table , tales in prose and worms
1835 - 1836: the Saone and its edges
1836 - 1837: the Seine and its edges
1837 - 1840: historical Paris , 3 volumes
1837: Ines de Las Sierras
1838: four talismans and the legend of sister Béatrix
1839: neuvaine of the Candlemas and Lydie
1840: Memories and portraits of the Revolution
1842: reasoned Description of a pretty collection of books
1844: Newspaper of the forwarding of the Iron Doors
1844: Franciscus Columna

External bonds

the complete text of the novel " Jean Sbogar"
the Booklover
Defense of the patois

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