Jean Fleury

Jean François Bonaventure Fleury , born the February 21st 1816 with Vasteville (Handle) and dead the August 17th 1894 with Gréville (Handle), is a regionalistic writer, French literary man and pedagog.

Biography

Born in a modest family from Vasteville, it obtains a purse for its studies with Cherbourg. Large scholar, it constitutes a large library and learns as an autodidact, the foreign languages.

He is professor and writer with the Journal of Cherbourg between 1837 and 1841. At that time, it enters to the academic National company of Cherbourg and publishes a tourist guide on Cherbourg, with Hippolyte Vallée, and a counting work of the popular Traditions of the surroundings of Cherbourg .

Become professor in Paris, between 1841 and 1857, it writes in various periodicals, of which peaceful Démocratie , Journal of the mothers and the children and the Encyclopédie of the 19th century .

It leaves then, in 1857, with Saint-Pétersbourg, to Russia, initially as governor, then, starting from 1863, professor of French and French literature, with the school of Right of the 5th college of Saint-Pétersbourg. He also taught the literature, the history and the geography in several establishments for young girls and colleges of the city. In 1872, it is named reader in language and French literature with the imperial Université of Russia, station which it keeps during 20 years. It publishes many works largely diffused, on the language and grammar Frenchwomen, and on the Russian and French literatures.

In parallel, it writes starting from 1873, of criticisms theatrical in the Journal of Saint-Petersbourg , is corresponding Figaro , international Revue and universal Revue . It also publishes in the Memories of the Company of linguistics and the teaching Revue .

It keeps its fasteners Normans, publishing three works on the cultural heritage of the Cotentin, and more specifically of the La Hague: popular Traditions of the surroundings of Cherbourg (1840), Test on the patois of La Hague (1886) and oral Literature of Basse-Normandie (1889), regularly republished.

It returns to France in 1892, and dies chez its wife, in Gréville, where it is buried. On his tomb, one can read one of his poems:

That the shade is bulky there and that the grass turfs there,

That the finch sings there and the fly there bourdonne,

That one hears the cries of the birds quarrellers .

Far from the odorous meadows, far from the fertile slopes,

I lived long days exiled in the cities,

Laissez me to fall asleep with the soft perfume of the flowers

He is the father of the écrivaine Henry Gréville.

Selective bibliography

Cherbourg and its surroundings: new guide of the traveller in Cherbourg , with Hippolyte Valley. Cherbourg, 1839
popular Traditions of the surroundings of Cherbourg , 1840-1841
Life of Bernardin of Saint-Pierre , 1843
Krylov and its fables , Paris, 1862
elementary History of the French literature, since the origin until our days , Paris, Plon, 1867-1890
Of the special Character of the language and the French literature . Saint-Pétersbourg, 1873
Elements of cosmography. Geography of Europe , with Marie Pope-Carpentier. Paris, Hatchet, 1877
Rabelais and its works , Paris, academic Bookstore Didier, 1877.
Marivaux and the light-hearted gallantry , Paris, Plon, 1881
oral Literature of Basse-Normandie , Paris, Maisonneuve & Leclerc, 1883
Test on the patois of La Hague , Paris, Maisonneuve & Leclerc, 1886
My Relaxations , Saint-Pétersbourg, 1887
Accounts and descriptions , Saint-Pétersbourg, 1887 (in Russian and French)
Savoyards in the French literature , Annecy, 1888
J.F Millet , Cherbourg, 1890
Grammar in action , Paris, Borrani, 3 vol.: 1, Principles ; 2, Orthography ; 3, Syntaxe (9th ED., 1892)
Conseils with Masters GUI teach the French language in Russia , 1892
the Aspects and times, the Conjugation in the Romance languages and the Slavic languages , 1893
the book of the Master. Supplement with all the French grammars employed in Russia. Aspects and times of the Russian conjugation and the conjugation of French and other Romance languages. Subjunctive and the participle . Saint-Pétersbourg, at principal the libr., 1893.
Extracts from the best French authors by chronological order and Analyze and extracted the chiefs of work of the French language of 1600 to our days, Saint-Pétersbourg
French Dictionnaire illustrated of the words and the things, or encyclopedic Dictionary of the schools, the trades and the life practices , with Larive. Paris, G. Chamerot, 1888-1889
Extracted the Memories of the academic National company of Cherbourg . Cherbourg, 19th century. “Linguistic Talk in connection with La Hague” (1898) and “people found by grammar”, “the peninsula of the English Channel and the Anglo-Norman archipelago: test on the patois of this country” (1891), “Hippolyte Valley” (1891).

Sources

Jean Fleury , Yves-Marie Bonnissent, site of Gréville-La Hague.
Jean Fleury , mirslovarei.com

See too

External bonds

Texts of Jean Fleury on the site of the Public library of Lisieux
'' Marivaux and the light-hearted gallantry '' On Gallica

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