Lorraine Jean

Paul Alexandre Martin Duval known as Jean Lorrain is a French writer with very strong tendency parnassienne, born with Fécamp the August 9th 1855 and died with Paris the June 30th 1906.

Jean Lorrain was one of the scandalous writers of the Belle Time, as well as his friend Rachilde or that Hugues Rebell or Fabrice Delphi.

Biography

Wire of Amable Duval, ship-owner, and of his wife born Pauline Mulat, Paul Duval makes his studies with the College of the imperial Prince with Vanves (1864 - 1869) then as intern at the Dominican ones of Arcueil to the Albert-the-Large college (1869). At this point in time it composes its first towards.

In 1873, it meets Judith Gautier at the time of holidays with Fécamp: she will be interested rather little in him, but will subjugate it literally. In 1875, it is voluntary with the 12th hussards, Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer and Rocquencourt. It begins studies of right to Paris in 1876 but in 1878 gives up them and starts to attend the newspaper offices and the coffees, as well as the Bohemian one which revolves around Rodolphe Salis and of the cabaret of the black Chat, where it meets the Hydropathes and the Zutistes, Jean Moréas, Maurice Rollinat, Jean Richepin, Emile Goudeau, etc In 1880, it tests its first crises of cardiac Spasmophilie and settles definitively in Paris, placing in furnished with Montmartre.

In 1882, it publishes in account of author in the editor Lemerre its first collection of poems, the Blood of the gods and collaborates in reviews like the black Cat or Declining the . In 1883, it publishes a new collection of poetries, the blue Forest , and attends the living room of Charles Buet, where it meets Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly, Joris-Karl Huysmans, François Coppée, Leon Bloy, Laurent Tailhade…

In 1884, it starts to collaborate in the French Courrier in which it publishes a series of portraits of which one of Rachilde which marks the beginning of the friendship between the two authors. The following year, it publishes a new collection of poems, Modernités , and its first novel, Lépillier , which scandalizes its birthplace of Fécamp. It meets Edmond de Goncourt with which it will remain dependant until the death of this last in 1896. Lorraine creates for itself a character, with a will posted to cause the scandal. It posts with din its Homosexualité and its taste for the Lutteurs of fair, not hesitating to appear with the Bal of Quat' z' Arts in pink shirt with the pants in skin of panther of his friend, the Marseilles fighter. He wants to be Esthète and Dandy tapageux at the same time as exploring of the defect and vulgarity, curious assembly which often pours in the worst bad taste, and which is worth to him the haughty contempt of Robert de Montesquiou, of which Lorrain, for its part, makes readily its head of Turkish for his claim with elegance and its chastity. “ Lorraine , written Leon Daudet in his Memories , had a head poupine and broad at the same time of vicious hairdresser, the hair divided by a line scented with the patchouli, globulous, amazed and avid eyes, large lips which were juicy, squirted and ran during its speech. Its chest was bent like the breast-bone of certain birds vultures. He greedily nourished all calumnies and rubbish ”.

His/her father dies in 1886. He meets Sarah Bernhardt, for which he will write without success some plays, and publishes its second novel, Très Russian , which misses causing a duel with Guy of Maupassant, his comrade of childhood, hated, which believed to be recognized in the character of Beaufrilan. He publishes articles in the Modern life and begins a collaboration with the Event (1887) and the Echo of Paris in 1888.

In 1891, its collection of news Sonyeuse is worth its first best-seller to him. In 1892, it goes on a journey in Spain and Algérie. His/her mother joined it with Auteuil and will remain close to him until her death. The following year, it meets Yvette Guilbert, for which it composes some songs but which will hold it remotely. The Doctor Pozzi operates it of nine ulcerations to the intestine, consecutive with the absorption of ether.

It meets in 1894 Liane of Pougy, which it will help to rise in the forefront of the galantery. From 1895, it collaborates in the Journal where it publishes its “Stake-Badly Week”, becoming one of the chroniclers best paid Paris. Its chronicles with vitriol are tasted as much as dreaded. In 1896, it is reproduced on the list of the members of the first Académie Goncourt.

In 1897, criticism greets its novel Mister de Bougrelon like a chief of work.
on February 6th, Jean Lorrain fights in duel with Marcel Proust, with Meudon, after a violent criticism of the Pleasures and the Days.
It carries out in 1898 its first voyage to Venice where it will turn over in 1901 and 1904.
In 1900, Jean Lorrain is installed on the Riviera and, in 1901, publishes its main work, Mister de Phocas .
In 1904, to pay the very heavy fine to which he was condemned following the lawsuit lost against Jeanne Jacquemin, he publishes the House Philibert .

Its health is degraded under the effect of the and drug misuse - the ether in particular - Syphilis. He travels and carries out several cures with Peira-Undermined, Boréon, and Châtel-Guyon. He dies the June 30th 1906 of a Péritonite caused by an attempt at administration of one rectal injection at the fifty years age. He is buried in Fécamp.

Residences

1880 - 1885: Montmartre (various furnished)
1885 - 1887: 20 Boulevard of Clichy (18 {{E}} district)
1887: 8 Street of Courty (VIIe district) (apartment describes in the Contes of an ether drinker)
1900 - 1906: Nice, villa Bounin
1906: Nice, place Cassini

Works

Poetry

the blood of the gods (1882)
the blue forest (1883)
Modernities (1885)
the griseries (1887)
burning shade (1897)

Novels

Lépillier (1885 and 1908)
Very Russian (1886)
démoniaque a (1895)
Mister de Bougrelon (1897)
the Turkish lady (1898)
Mister de Phocas (1901)
the defect wandering (1901)
the house Philibert (1904), adapted by Jose de Bérys, Noré Brunel and Georges Normandy and represented on scene of the Mill of the Song in Paris in February 1932.
Mr Monpalou (1906)
Dash (1906)
the tétreau (1906)
Aryan the (1907)
House for ladies (1908)

News and Tales

Sonyeuse (1891)
Drinkers of hearts (1893)
the princess under glass (1896)
Hearts of autumn (1897)
Lorelei (1897)
Tales for reading with the candle (1897)
My small town (1898)
Princesses of Italy (1898)
Stories of masks (1900)
Princesses of ivory and intoxication (1902)
Twenty women (1903)
Some men (1903)
the Mandrake (1903)
Make-ups and poisons (1904)
Matter of simple hearts (1904)
the school of the old women (1905)
the crime of the rich person (1906)
Narkiss (1909)
Pelléastres (1910)

Theater

Viviane , theater (1885)
Very Russian , 3-act play, with Oscar Méténier, Paris, Theater-with application (Bodinière), May 3rd 1893
Yanthis (1894)
Prométhée , with Andre-Ferdinand Hérold (1900)
Neigilde (1902)
Moonlight , drama in an act and two tables, with Fabrice Delphi, Paris, Concert of the Time, December 17th 1903
Two hours of the morning, district Marbeuf , with Gustave Coquiot (1904)
Hotel of the West, room 22 , with Gustave Coquiot (1905)
Théâtre: Brocéliandre, Yanthis, the Mandrake, Ennoïa (1906)

Chronicles and Accounts of voyage

In the oratory (1888)
the small class (1895)
Feelings and memories (1895)
a woman per day (1896)
Dust of Paris (1896 - 1902)
Mrs Baringhel (1899)
Hours of Africa (1899)
Hours of Corsica (1905)
the poisoned city (1930)
Women of 1900 (1932 )

Works on line

Novels

Make-ups and poisons , Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1903
Hélie, boy of hotel , Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1908
Hours of Africa , Paris: E. Fasquelle, 1899
Hours of Corsica , Paris: E. Sansot, 1905
Stories of masks , Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1900
burning shade: poetries , Paris: E. Fasquelle, 1897
the mandrake , Paris: E. Pelletan, 1899
the crime of the rich person , Paris: Baudinière, 1926
the wandering defect: corners of Byzance , Paris: Albin Michel, 1926
Lépillier , Paris: E. Giraud and Co, 1885
Mister de Phocas: Astarté: novel , Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1901
Dust of Paris , Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1902
Feelings and memories , Paris: G. Carpenter and E. Fasquelle, 1895
Sonyeuse; Evenings of province; Evenings of Paris , Paris: Carpenter, 1891
a woman per day. Women of summer , Paris: E. Guillaume, 1896

Theater

Viviane: tell of them 1 act , Paris: E. Giraud, 1885
Yanthis: comedy in 4 acts, worms , Paris: G. Carpenter and E. Fasquelle, 1894

News

History of good Gudule , 1900
the Clamping plate , 1895
an unknown crime , 1900
Account of the student , 1900
Mrs Gorgibus , 1900
One of them , 1900
the Princess with the red lilies , 1894
the Princess Neigefleur , 1894

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