Emile Erckmann

Emile Erckmann was a writer French, born with Phalsbourg the May 20th 1822 and died with Lunéville the March 14th 1899. It is more known under the common pseudonym of Erckmann-Chatrian than it divided with his friend Alexandre Chatrian.

See Erckmann-Chatrian concerning their common works.

Biography

Beginnings

The childhood of Erckmann is related to the small town of Phalsbourg. It passed its vat in 1841, with Nancy, then began Droit to Paris in 1842.

It published a first booklet: Of military recruitment , in 1843. Two years later, it missed its third year by right and returned in Phalsbourg, patient of the Typhoïde.

In spring 1847, Erckmann became acquainted with Chatrian, then main of study to the college of Phalsbourg. They became friendly and spent their summer holidays together.

During a stay in Paris, Erckmann was pilot Révolution of 1848. Very inspired, it founded a club with Chatrian with Phalsbourg and directed a newspaper to Strasbourg, which did not last a long time. In the beginning of the Années 1850 they published some serials in the Democrat of the Rhine , in the meantime a fast literary fame, but after a few years it was disillusion. Erckmann then left to live with Rosny-sous-Bois and resumed its studies of right in 1854.

Success

The recognition arrived finally towards 1859: the publications followed one another and they started to be known under the pseudonym of Emile Erckmann-Chatrian . At the time, their register was already in the news and the tales Fantastique S. They settle both in Paris, close to the Gare of the East and return regularly in Lorraine.

In August 1870, Erckmann was in Phalsbourg at the time of the defeat of Mac-Mahon. It regained Paris then (Franco-German Guerre of 1870). Works of the two Lorraine ones had thereafter a success very related on the desire of French revenge and the nostalgia of the “blue line of the Vosges”.

Starting from 1872, Erckmann wrote novels rather whereas Chatrian dealt with the theater. In September, Erckmann moves in with Saint-Dié. It made a whole tour the following year in the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Greece…

End

Erckmann refused in 1886 to sign the new convention negotiated by Chatrian with their editor. The following year, Chatrian, reached by a mental disease, wrote in Erckmann that it remunerated “Nègre S” with their pools: it is the end of their association and their friendship.

In 1889, Erckmann is lived to refuse the right to reside at Phalsbourg, it settled then in Lunéville where it will remain until its death. Chatrian is deceased, him, in 1890.

Quotations

“When one had happiness to be born in the the Vosges, between the Haut-Barr, the Nideck and the Geierstein, one should never think of the voyages. ”

External bonds

Biography on the site '' With the letter ''

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