François Edouard Joachim Coppée (Paris street of the Gregoire Abbot, January 26th 1842 - Paris street Oudinot May 23rd 1908) is a Poète, playwright and novelist French.
Coppée was the popular and sentimental poet of Paris and its suburbs, of the tables of street intimists of the world of the humble ones. Poet of the memory of a first meeting in love (“September, with the light sky”), nostalgia of another existence (“I am a pale child of the Paris old man”) or beauty of the twilight (“the twilight is sad and soft”) it met a great popular success before falling into the lapse of memory.
After having occupied an employment with the library of the Senate, Coppée was selected in 1878 as archivist of the French Comedy, posts that it kept until 1884. This year its election with the French Academy led it to be withdrawn from all the public offices. It continued to publish volumes of poetry to little time of frequent interval, among them Les Humbles (1872), Le Cahier rouge (1874), Olivier (1875), L' Exilée (1876), Contes in worms etc. (1881), Poèmes and récits (1886), Arrière-saison (1887), Paroles sincères (1890).
In its last years it produced less poetry, but published two more volumes, Dans the prayer and the lutte and Vers français. It had acquired the reputation to be the poet of the humble ones. In addition to the parts mentioned above, two others written in collaboration with Armand d' Artois and some small parts of minor importance, Coppée wrote Madame of Maintenon (1881), Severo Torelli (1883), Les Jacobites (1885) and other serious dramas in worms, of which Pour the couronne (1895), which was translated into English (For the Crown>>) by John Davidson and was represented in Lyceum Theater in 1896.
The representation of a short episode of the Commune, Le Pater, was prohibited by the government (1889). The first account in prose of Coppée, Une Idylle during the siège, appeared in 1875. It was followed by various volumes of news, by Toute a jeunesse (1890) where it tried to reproduce the feelings, if not real wishes, of the youth of the author, Les Vrais Riches (1892), Le Coupable (1896), etc It was made Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1888.
The reprinting of a series of short articles on various subjects, entitled Mon franc-parler, was published of 1893 to 1896; in 1898 La Bonne Souffrance, the result of its return to the Catholic church came, which was worth a great popularity to him. The immediate cause of its return to the faith was a serious disease which twice made it approach death. Hitherto it had expressed little interest for the public affairs, but it joined the exaltée section of the nationalist movement, at the same time as it continued to scorn the system of the democracy. It took a big part with the attacks against the defendant in the Dreyfus business and was one of the creators of famous Ligue of the French Fatherland founded by Jules Lemaitre and its mistress, Madam de Loynes.
In worms and Coppée prose endeavoured to express the human emotion in the simplest way: instinctive patriotism, joy of a new love and pity towards the poor, treating each one of these subjects with sympathy and penetration. Lyric and idyllic poetry, thanks to which one will continue to remember him, is animated by a musical charm and on some occasions, like La Bénédiction and La Grève of the forgerons, watch per moments a powerful capacity of expression.
“Cursed poets” of his time (Verlaine, Rimbaud, Charles Cros…), liked with pasticher its ten-line stanzas. On its side he had commented on thus the sonnet of the Voyelles :
In May 1874, in its Warning of the First Edition of the Red Book , it compels this task with the poet: " " According to us, the poëte does not have to deal any more with what it already achieved, but only of what it proposes to still make. It is towards the perfection that he dreams, and not towards the success that he notes, which its progress must tighten; and, for our own account, when once we gave our book to the impression, we let us not take of it more concern that the spring trees, that we see our window, do not worry about their sheets dead about the last automne" ".
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