François Coppée

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.

Biography

He was born in Paris. His/her father was a civil servant and it had a very attentive mother. After being last by the Saint-Louis College he became an employee with the ministry of war and attracted himself soon the favors of the public like poet of the school parnassienne. Its first towards printed papers form go back to 1864. They were republished with others in 1866 pennies the shape of a collection (Le Reliquaire), followed (1867) by Intimités and Poèmes modernes (1867-1869). In 1869 its first part, Le Passant, was accepted with a great success with the theater of Odéon and thereafter Fais what dois (1871) and Les Bijoux of the délivrance (1872), short dramas in worms inspired by the war, were cordially applauded.

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 This year its election with the French Academy led it to be withdrawn from all the public offices.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.

Various judgments

Its first collection, the Reliquary (1866), had placed it within the poetic movement of the Parnassus. But as of its Intimacies (1868), it had been diverted some to turn to a poetry of the daily newspaper, using words of the every day, but in a traditional prosody, without escaping from prosaicness and conformism. It is told that Anatole France, seeing on a funeral wreath the inscription: “Offered by the bowlers of Neuilly” would have murmured: “Hold! Worms of Coppée”.
“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 :

Rimbaud, successful stove setter,
In a sonnet that I deplore,
Wants that the letters O, E, I
Forment the Tricolor.
In vain the declining one orates,
One needs without “but”, neither “because”, nor “if”
a clear style like the dawn:
the old men Parnassiens are thus.

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" ".

Works
; Poetry

the Reliquary (1866)

the Intimacies (1868)

various Poems (1869)

modern Poems (1869) (of which the Angelus , the Father and the Strike of the blacksmiths )

Humble the (1872)

Humble the (whose the Nurse and Émigrants )

Writes during the seat

Four sonnets

Promenades and interior

Plus blood !

the red Book (1874)

Olivier (1876)

Accounts and the Elegies (1878) (of which Exiled the ) See the document on line: BNE; BNE

the Shipwrecked man (1878)

Tales in worms and various poetries (1880) (of which the child of the ball and the Commercial one of newspapers )

Off-season (1887)

sincere Words (1891)

In the prayer and the fight (1901)

Of parts and pieces

Of the French Worms (1906)

new intimate Sonnets and poems, Worms of love and tenderness (posthumous, 1927)

; Theater

the Passer by , comedy in an act, worms (1869)

Two pains , drama in an act, worms (1870)

Do what owe , dramatic episode (1871)

Jewels of the delivery , scene in worms (1872)

Abandoned the (1871)

the Appointment (1872)

the one hundred year old War

the Violin maker of Casement bolt , comedy in an act, worms ( 1876)

the Treasury (1879)

Korrigane (1880)

Madam de Maintenon , drama in five acts with a prolog, worms (1881)

Severo Torelli , drama in five acts, worms (1883)

Jacobites , drama in five acts, worms (1885)

the Lord's Prayer (1889)

For the crown , drama in five acts, worms (1895)

; Novels, tales and new

Idylle during the seat (1874). Edition criticizes of Than-Van Your That: 2005.

Tales in prose (1882)

Twenty new Tales (1883)

the bench, idylle Parisian (1887)

fast Tales (1888)

Henriette (1889)

A whole youth (1890)

Rich Truths (1892)

Rival (1893)

Long and short (1893)

very simple Tales (1894)

the Culprit (1896)

the Good Suffering (1898)

Tales for the feastdays (1903)

; Articles & various

My outspokenness

the Sandwich man (1891)

Memories of Parisian a

the Battle of Hernani

the House of Molière

External bonds

Biographical note of the French Academy

ten-line stanzas of '' Promenades and Intérieurs '' and their pastiches

'' the Strike of the blacksmiths ''

'' Exiled the ''

'' commercial newspapers: Parisian tale '' (1880).

very simple Tales: '' Pilier of Coffee '', '' Defects of the Captain '', '' Small Paper the '', '' the '' Adoption (1894).

Some poems

Sources

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