Hégésippe Moreau

Its life

Registered to the registry office under the name of Pierre-Jacques Roulliot, it bears as of its childhood the name of his natural father, and adopts the pseudonym of Hégésippe by publishing its first towards in Paris in 1829.

His/her father, Claude-François Moreau, born with Poligny the Jura, appointed professor with the college of Layered branches (Seine-et-Marne) in 1810, die of tuberculosis (May 16th, 1814). His/her mother, Marie Roulliot - born on March 12th, 1774, registered at the registry office of Cluny Saône-et-Loire under the name of Jeanne-Marie Rouillot -, places herself to Mrs Guérard, of Layered branches, who collects Hégésippe, four years old. Its bienfaitrice makes him begin its studies with the college of Layered branches, then, the family having left the city for the countryside, it is placed at the small seminar of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), then with that of Avon (close to Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne). It learns death there from his mother (February 5th, 1823), also of tuberculosis, whereas it approaches nine years.

In its foreword with the Œuvres of Hégésippe Moreau , Holy-Beuve affirms that it “made Avon its studies, of excellent traditional studies, without forgetting the Latin worms which it varied and turned on all the rhythmes of Horace. ”

To its exit of the seminar of Avon, in 1828, Hégésippe Moreau enters in training, as corrector, at a printer of Layered branches, Mr Lebeau. The girl of Mr. Lebeau, Louise, is that which Hégésippe Moreau called his/her “sister” and to which it dedicates his tales. This year there, Charles X, ghost of a voyage which had made him make Mr. de Martignac, passes by Provins, and according to Holy-Beuve, “on this occasion, Moreau its patriotic song writes which has as a title: Lives the king! and for refrain: Lives freedom! ”

Hégésippe Moreau goes back to Paris at that time, and, on the councils of Mr. Lebrun, addresses to Mr. Didot his Épitre on printing works . Hégésippe is engaged with printing works Didot, street Jacob in Paris.

Shortly after July 1830, Mr. Lebrun is named with the direction of the royal Imprimerie. It seeks to make there enter Hégésippe, but this last already left Didot printing works, and according to Holy-Beuve, “another way followed consequently, and it was not those who let themselves protect easily. ”

Hégésippe Moreau takes part in the days of July 1830. He becomes Master of study, but gives up quickly what is not “not a career” (Holy-Beuve), and lives into Bohemian, of hunger, and poetry.

In 1833, after a hospitalization, it returns to Provins, at Mrs Guérard, in convalescence. He undertakes throw a newspaper in worms, Diogène , on the model of Némésis of Barthélemy. But, for Holy-Beuve, “E talent that it showed there could not save such a publication very-ventured everywhere, and who was it especially in the middle of the competitions and of susceptibilities of a small town. It in vain had called upon all the region of Brie and Champagne, and écrier
“ That it comes me a public! my poetry is ripe, ”
the public answered little. The poëte wounded and alienated those even which had initially supported it. It had finally a duel, and had to be returned from there soon to Paris, désappointé again and irritated as after a failure. ”

From 1834 to 1838, he lives again in Paris, in a great misery, and (Holy-Beuve) “at the moment when he had just found an editor for his worms, and where the Myosotis , published with luxury (1838) and already rented in the newspapers, was going to make him a reputation, entered without resource to the old people's home of Charity and died there tuberculosis on December 20th, 1838, renewing the lamentable example of Gilbert and making during too faithful to the drama moving by Chatterton , whose impression was still very sharp on youth. ”.

Poet badly included/understood, badly-liked, Hégesippe Moreau remain an attaching poet of the 19th century, died too young, fallen into the lapse of memory, even if a Parisian street bears its name, in the XVIIIe district. Would Hégésippe Moreau have written philosopher's stones? Walter Benjamin speaks positively about fragments of his work published.

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