Hector Crinon

Hector Crinon , sculptor and Picardy poet of expression E, was born with Vraignes-in-Vermandois, Picardy, in 1807 of a very modest family farmers. Very early it must replace his father, deceased, with the agricultural work. But admiror of the chansonnier Béranger, and not finding his vocation in agriculture, it gives up his farm not to believe more but in his future successes of artist. In spite of some first little noticed songs (two collections of French songs , 1830-1832, untraceable), he is initially recognized only thanks to the woodcarving: he is allowed besides in the workshop of the painter péronnais Auguste Dehaussy where he devotes himself several years to the sculpture. One could thus see before 1914 some of his works in the churches of Vraignes and Fibula. But the sculpture enables him only with difficulty to make live its family and her children, and Crinon must thus take again agriculture. The revolution of 1848 awakes its literary inspiration, and the new political satires that it publishes into Picardy, pointing of the finger inequalities and contradictions of the contemporary company, meet, finally, the success which it hoped for. By its new “conservatism”, Crinon thus attracts itself the “protection” of the notable buildings. The President of the Court of Fibula and the Sub-prefect endeavor to finally find an employment to him which enables him to live comfortably. But in 1858, the post of police superintendent that one proposes to him is located in Eure-et-Loir. In spite of the misery and the disease which touch it then, Crinon refuses “expatrier” (he is explained some in the poem Restons at the Village ).

The honors which returns to him in 1859, Art and the Letter Academy of Science of Amiens have great difficulty to make him forget an increasingly painful disease. The subjects covered by Crinon feel some: On death, the suicide (1860), My will (1861), the patient (1863). The publication of the collection of its Picardy Satires in 1863 does not bring back the awaited benefit to him; the newspapers of Fibula arrive from there even in 1868 at launching a subscription to always help the poet, who dies paralytic, with Vraignes, in September 1870.

In 1892, one inaugurates in Vraignes a bronze bust representing Crinon, work of the poet-sculptor Georges Tattegrain. This bust is sent to the cast iron by the Germans in 1944. Thanks to the action of association EKLITRA and with a public subscription, a new bust out of stone, work of the sculptor Albert Roze, is built in Vraignes in 1970 at the time of the centenary of died of Crinon.

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