Jean-François Bladé

Jean François Marie Zéphyrin Bladé , known as Jean-François Bladé , born with Lectoure (Gers) the November 15th 1827 and died in Paris the June 30th 1900, is a magistrate, historian and folklorist French. Its major work is its collection of the oral traditions of the Gascogne.

Biography

Resulting from two generations of notaries, Zéphyrin (it is its first name of use, which it will give up during its first publications) Bladé is raised by Gascon nurses and maidservants. It receives the first teaching of his uncle Pierre Francois, known as Prosper, priest of the village close to the Pergain. After studies with the small seminar of Auch, with the college of Auch and Bordeaux, he studies the right to Toulouse, where he leaves the memory of a turbulent student. As from 1850, it will live a time in Paris, among the Bohemian one of the Latin Quarter where it côtoie Charles Baudelaire and where he would have acquired ideas Socialiste S and Fouriériste S, reputation which will be worth some troubles in the provincial company to him, but which will not be seen not confirmed thereafter. In 1855, with died of his father, it settles as lawyer with Lectoure. The following year, he becomes judge-substitute. He starts to publish, in the local reviews (the Revue of Aquitaine ), of the various texts, studies historical, literary, and some influenced news, already, by popular tales or fantastic post-romantic with the Nodier. He changes his Zéphyrin first name for that of Jean-François. Then it publishes collections of tales, in Gascon language, accompanied by their French translation. Its last publications will be only in French. He especially works with monumental a general Histoire of Gascogne until the end of the ducal time , dispersed in a multitude of opuscules, which will never constitute a final work. After its marriage, and following political contentions with its fellow-citizens, rather republican (whereas it remains preserving and royalist), it settles in 1867 with Agen, where he is judge. Middle-class man preserving, notable, he is member and president of many learned societies, majoral of the Félibrige, maintenor of the Académie of the floral Plays. Correspondent of the Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1885, it receives the Légion of honor for the centenary of the Institut in 1895. But at the same time, it does not cease being a notorious mystifier, joker, remarkable storyteller, and a frightening polemist whose shingling irony does not save its adversaries, among which the Agen-native scholar Tamisey de Larroque occupies a choice place. The enemies whom it is made then will not have nothing to do with the rather mitigated image which it left with the posterity. It maintains the relations with Anatole France (which borrows the tale to him the Mass of the Phantoms to write its news the Mass of the Shades ), Paul Arène, Charles Maurras, Laurent Tailhade.

He dies in 1900 in Paris, in his only son Etienne. His/her small-niece, Jeanne Alleman (1885-1938), writer itself under the pseudonym of Jean Balde, wrote her biography: One of Artagnan of feather, Jean-François Bladé (Plon, 1930). Jacques Alleman (1882-1945), older brother of Jeanne, architect, was fixed in the north of France after the war of 1914-1918 and took part in the rebuilding of Lille and Béthune.

Critical posthumous

Although it was always presented in the form of a “faithful shorthand writer”, “just and pious scribe”, it is now acquired that the step of Bladé as a collector is far from having a scientific rigor: relatively few advisers, the majority close relations of him or his family, recombining of tales according to scattered fragments, sometimes even, seem it, pure and simple creations. The style even of the tales, perfectly homogeneous and purified, betrays the hand of the writer, a writer perhaps passed beside his destiny.

Principal publications

; Collections of tales
  • Tales and popular proverbs collected in Armagnac , 1867, Bookstore A. Franck
  • popular Tales collected in Resident of Agen by Jean-François Bladé. French translation and text Agen-native, followed comparative notes, by Mr. Reinhold Köhler (1874)
  • popular Proverbs & riddles collected in Armagnac & the Resident of Agen , Champion, Paris (1879)
  • popular Poetries of Gascogne (3 volumes), 1881-1882, Maisonneuve, Paris
  • popular Tales of Gascogne (3 volumes), 1886, Maisonneuve, Paris
  • Tales of Gascogne (1895) Calmann-Levy, Paris
; Historical studies
  • Pierre de Lobanner and four charters of Mount-of-Marsan (1861)
  • Essay on the heroic songs of the Basques (1866)
  • Studies on the origin of the Basques (1869)
  • geographical Studies on the valley of Andorra (1875)
  • ancient Épigraphie of Gascogne (1885)
  • Gascogne and countries bordering in the Carolingian legend (1889)
  • Aquitaine and Vasconie cispyrénéenne, since the death of Dagobert Ier until the time of the duke Eudes (1891)
  • Vascons Spanish, since the last years of the Life century until the origin of the Kingdom of Navarre (1891)
  • Fine of the first duchy of Aquitaine (1892)
  • the South-west of franque Gaulle, since the creation of the Kingdom of Aquitaine until the death of Charlemagne (1893)
  • political Geography of the south-west of Gaulle during the Roman domination (1893)
  • political Geography of the south-west of franque Gaulle, at the time of the kings d' Aquitaine (1895)
  • Carolingian Counts of Bigorre and the first kings de Navarre (1897)
  • Origins of the duchy of Gascogne (1897)
  • Évêché of the Gascons (1899)

Recent editions

  • Tales of Gascogne , editions Opals, Bordeaux (1996)
  • Tales of Gascogne , taken again edition of 1895, presentation of Francoise Morvan, Ouest-France, Rennes (2004)
  • Tales of Gasconha (in occitan/Gascon) IEO (1966-1976)
  • Tales of Gascogne , adapted and put as cartoons by Jean-Claude Pertuzé, Toulouse, autoreporting, 1977; Paris, Humanoïdes associated, 1980; Toulouse, Loubatières, 2000.
  • tales of the old man Cazaux , selection of tales of Gascogne established and commented on by Pierre Lafforgue, Fédérop (1995)
  • Proverbs and riddles collected in Armagnac and the Resident of Agen , reprint of the edition of 1879, Loubatières editions, Toulouse (2000)
  • the News , Loubatières editions, Toulouse (2000)

Foreign editions

  • Der Mann in allen Farben , Der Davidswagen (2 vol.), translation in German of a choice of tales of Gascogne , by Konrad Sandkühler, Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart (1952-1954)
  • Spookjes uit Gascogne , version Dutchwoman of the work of K. Sandkühler, Christofoor, Rotterdam (1982)
  • Bruise from Lectoure , translation English of some tales per Mr. R. James, Haunted Library (2006)

Sources

  • Jean Balde, One of Artagnan of feather, Jean-François Bladé , Paris, Plon, 1930

  • Jean-François Bladé , acts of the conference of Lectoure, 20 October 21st, 1984, Béziers, CIDO, 1985
  • Adrien Lavergne, Jean-François Bladé , Bulletin of the Archaeological Company of Gers, 1903, p. 159-168
  • Two centuries of history of Lectoure, 1780-1980 , Lectoure, Tourist office, 1981
  • Gaston Guillaumie, Jean-François Bladé and popular tales of Gascogne , Bordeaux, Delmas, 1943

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