Jules Fox

Biography

It is a little by chance that it is born in Mayenne: his/her father worked there at this time with the construction of the railroad. He lived all that he wrote. In its works or its Newspaper, he writes all that he saw, not to say it nor to let it appear. He also writes to shine and not to doubt itself more, because his/her parents hardly liked it. And soon, with its concerns of joint another: fear of betraying the truth by the use of the bad words or too many words. During most of its life, a question obsesses it: is it necessary to prefer the exactitude of a sentence or the poetic beauty of an image? It is also a mine of information on the literary life. Success is not for immediately. He lives at the beginning of 1888 Hotel from Abroad, 24 rue Tronchet, close to its been engaged which lives 44 rue du Rocher (the street of the Rock will be its Parisian address until its death in 1910). Its marriage improves its financial position. When in 1889 of young writers found the Mercure de France, Renard is one of the principal shareholders. Jules Renard was elected mayor of Chitry-the-Mines the May 15th 1904 and member of the Académie Goncourt in October 1907, thanks to Octave Mirbeau, which had to threaten to resign to ensure its success. He died of Artériosclérose in Paris, the May 22nd 1910.

Works

Novels

Crime of village (1888)
gripped Smiles (1890) (text)
the Cadger (1892) (text)
'' the deaf lantern '' (1893)
Coquecigrues (1893)
Two fables without morals (1893)
the Woman-chaser (1894)
Natural histories (1894) (text)
Hair of carrot (1894) ( text)
the Vine grower in his vine (1894) (text)
the Mistress (1896) (text)
Bucoliques (1898)
the Philippe (1907)
Fatherland (1907)
Words of writing (1908)
Ragotte (1909)
Our savage brothers (1909)
Talks (1910)
the clear Eye (1913)
the Woodlice (1919)

Theater

the Request (1895)
Pleasure of breaking (1897) (text)
Home-made bread (1898)
Hair of Carrot (1900)
Mr Vernet (1903)
the Over-devout (1909)
Eight days in the countryside (1912) (text)

Newspaper

Newspaper, 1887 - 1910 (1925) (text)

Quotations

“It does not have there a friend, it has only moments of friendship there. ”
“With a woman, the friendship can be only the moonlight of the love. ”
“It is of these fragile small women who like better to like that to make love. ”
“I go in the middle of the women by the path more flowered and longest. ”
" The newspaper of this morning: Quickly thought, quickly written, quickly read, quickly forgotten. "
“I cannot look at a sheet of tree without being crushed by the universe. ”
“When I think of all the books that it remains me to read, I have the certainty to be still happy. When I think of all the women that it remains me to meet too. ”
“It is not enough to be happy: it is necessary still that the others are not it. ”
“the man was created before the woman so that it can place some mot.”
“Everyone is not likely to be born orphan. ”
“I can swim, sufficiently to retain itself to save the others. ”
“listening to only its courage, which did not say anything to him, it took care not to intervene. ”
“Let us call the woman a beautiful animal without fur whose skin is very required. ”
“So Money does not create happiness, return it! ”
“Tolerate my intolerance! ”
" And if I refused to return my âme."
“It is not because there is a pink on the rose tree which the bird is posed there: it is because there are plant louses. ”
" To write, it is a way of speaking without being interrompu."

Criticism

the critic Charles Of the Boss (1882-1939) said of him: tiny Montaigne whose Heather would have sharpened the style.

External bonds

biographical Presentation
Works in line (Gutenberg project)
Online news (ABU)
Quotations
free audio Book " Natural histories of Jules Fox.

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