Evarist of Parny

Desired Évariste of Forging mills , knight then Viscount of Parny , is a Poète French born the February 6th 1753 with Saint-Paul (Island Bourbon, today the Réunion) and dead the December 5th 1814 in Paris.

Biography

Parny resulted from a family originating in the Berry, installed with the island Bourbon in 1698. It left its native island towards the ten years age to come to France with his two brothers, Jean-Baptiste and Chériseuil. It made its studies at the Oratoriens of the college of Rennes. He thought of entering the orders and made six months of theology to the Saint-Firmin college in Paris, but chooses a military career ultimately, by estimating that he had not enough religion to take the dress, Christianity the tempting one above all by the images of the Bible.

His/her brother Jean-Baptiste, rider of the count d' Artois, introduced it at the court of Versailles where it became acquainted with two other soldiers who, like him, will have a name in poetry: Antoine Bertin, originating like him in the island Bourbon and Nicolas-Germain Léonard, which was, him, originating in the Guadeloupe.

In 1773, his/her father recalled it to the Bourbon island. During this stay, it fell passionately in love with an young graduate, Esther Lelièvre, that his/her father prevented it from marrying. Being bored of Paris, it turned over to France in 1775. Shortly after its departure, the young girl was married with a doctor. This history inspired the erotic Poésies , published in 1778, where Esther appears under the name of Éléonore. The collection had from the start a great success and brought the celebrity to her author.

November 6th 1779, Parny was named captain with the regiment of the dragons of the Queen. In 1783, Parny returned to the Bourbon island to regulate the succession of his/her father and also travelled to the island of France. In 1785, it left the Bourbon island for Pondichéry to follow, in the capacity as aide-de-camp, the general governor of the French possessions in the Indies.

It was not rained at all in India but it collected there a share of the matter of its Chansons madécasses , among the first prose poems in French language. It was not long in returning to France to leave the military state and to settle in 1786 in the house which it had in the small valley of Feuillancourt, between Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer and Marly-the-King, that one called the Barracks. With Bertin and Léonard, they formed the “company of the barracks”, which had habit to meet there.

When the French revolution burst, Parny, which did not receive any pension of the King and who was not interested particularly in the policy, did not feel truly concerned. But it was to balance the debts left by his Jean-Baptiste brother and, in 1795, refundings in assignats ruined it almost completely. It obtained a place in the offices of the ministry for the Interior where there remain thirteen months, then with the administration of the Théâtre of Arts. In 1804, the count French of Nantes inserted it in the administration of the joined together rights.

In 1802, Parny Maria with Marie-Francoise Vally and, the following year, it was accepted with the French Academy, where it occupied the 36e armchair. In 1813, Napoleon i granted a pension of 3.000 francs to him, but this one was removed to him under the Restauration in 1814. He died on December 5th, 1814.

Works

The poetry of Parny was extremely popular at the beginning of the 19th century. “ I by heart knew the elegies of the knight of Parny, and I still know them ”, thus writes Chateaubriand in 1813.

Parny was made known by its erotic Poésies (1778) which brings a little freshness in the academic poetry of the 18th century. It also remains by its Chansons madécasses (1787), where it says to translate songs of Madagascar, and that one intends oneself to regard as the first test of prose poems in French language. They were illustrated by I Plowman (1920) and some were put in music by Maurice Ravel ( Chansons madécasses , 1925).

Voyage from Burgundy , in worms and prose, with Antoine Bertin, 1777
Epistle with the insurgents of Boston , 1777
erotic Poetries , 1778
poetic Opuscules , 1779
Elegies , 1784
Songs madécasses , 1787
the War of the Gods , poem in 10 songs, 1799: poem condemned by a stop of June 27th, 1827 but which was often reprinted clandestinely
Goddam! , poem in 4 songs, 1804
the Stolen Wallet , 1805, container: Venus Disguises, Galanteries of the Bible , the Paradise lost (poem in 4 songs)
the Voyage of Celine , poem, 1806

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