Joseph Autran

Joseph Autran is a poet and French dramatic author, born the June 20th 1813 with Marseilles and dead the March 6th 1877 in Marseilles.

Its most known part is the Girl of Eschyle (1848), which the Prix Montyon crowned allotted by the French Academy. Its successive candidatures at this last institution were the theater of the confrontation of the catholics and the liberals. Candidate of the catholics, it initially had to withdraw in front of Octave Layer in 1862, then lost vis-a-vis Camille Doucet in 1865. Finally, an election doubles was the occasion of an agreement between the two camps, and it was put at the row of Immortal in 1868, accompanied by Claude Bernard. It could join together around him several of the great writers of its time, even if its personal talent were not recognized by the posterity.

Works

the Departure for the East: ode with Mr. Alphonse of Lamartine (1832)
Sea: poetries (1835)
Ludibria ventis: new poetries (1838)
Year 40: ballades and musical poetries, followed by Marseilles (1840)
Milianah: poem (1841)
Italy and Holy Week in Rome (1841)
the Girl of Eschyle: ancient study in 5 acts, worms , Paris, Theater of Odéon, March 9th, 1848
Plowmen and soldiers (1854)
rural Life: tables and accounts (1856)
Poëmes of the sea (1859)
rustic Epistles (1861)
the Poem of the beautiful days (1862)
the Cyclops, according to Euripide (1863)
Words of Solomon (1869)
capricious Sonnets (1873)
the Legend of the paladins (1875)
complete Works (1875-82)

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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