Paul Harel

Paul Harel , born with Échauffour the May 18th 1854 and died in 1927, is a Poète and landlord French.

Wire of a lawyer of Saint-Lo, Paul Harel preferred to run the fields to the school but it was put in training as of the fourteen years age in the pharmacist of Montreuil-l' Argillé where it sold ointments by learning a little from Latin in the local priest. From sixteen to nineteen years, he is typographer with Nogent-le-Rotrou where he prints works of Paulin Paris, Gaston Paris or Paul Meyer

Theophilus Féret wrote of him: “Since the Rhymes of pin and sword, everyone knows the innkeeper of Échauffour, and since the Memories of inn, it annexed its big room with the literature Norman. Before Bars, it released some of the close friends correspondences between the Line, the Ground and the ancestral Worship. He wanted to marble us with the native soil. ”

In the foreword of its first collection, Under the apple trees , appeared in 1879, Mr. Harel took care to explain why it embraced the profession of hotel: “My father, says it, was lawyer, my grandfather landlord; I took again the trade of this one by love of the picturesque one. I believed to have to give this bad example to my contemporaries, in a time when the sons of the ground desert their hearths, where the life of the ancestors is unknown, if not scorned. ” We will add that, if Mr. Harel did not regret his choice, it is well also a little because, for him,

“the great secrecy of all is in charity” ,

and that the ancestral profession enables him to practice this virtue on a broad scale by accommodating at his place the paupers, the gueux ones who pass on the road:

Here the Misery which passes,

Ouvrez ports with two leaves!

the Good Inn

Paul Harel was loved in return. He enjoys, in his country, of a popularity of good quality. “ In the Flowering ash, known as still Mr. Féret, one carries a religious tenderness to him. ”
Mr. Paul Harel sang the charms of nature and the rural life with a sincerity and a simplicity which exclude neither picturesque nor the size. From its last volume, which he prefers with the others, the remote Hours (1903), he draws especially his inspiration in the faith, which he does not conceive, we saw it, without charity. In 1895, Mr. Harel had to direct, with Paris, a great catholic review, the Fortnight. But splendors of the capital could not make him forget its native land: liking rustic simplicity, he resigned soon his directorial functions to turn over to Échauffour.

Works

Gorgeansac. The Small Marthe. Nose of the cousin Barnabe , Paris, H. Gautier, 1898
With the Ensign of the Large-Saint-Andre , Paris, Plon, 1906
Ernest Millet , Paris, Plon, 1904
Gorgeansac; The small Marthe; Nose of the cousin Barnabe , Paris, H. Gautier, 1898
Life and the mystery; sonnets , Paris, Garnier Brothers, 1921
the Tears , Paris, A. Durand & Wire, 1895
the Voices of the glèbe , Paris, A. Lemerre, 1895
selected Works , Paris, A. Lemerre, 1897
Works , Paris, Plon-Nourishes, 1904
selected Pages: towards & prose, 1879-1927 , Nickel silver, Langlois, 1930
Poems with the glory of Christ: follow-ups of various poetries , Paris, Spes, 1928
mystical and pastoral Poems , Paris, Plon, 1914
Memories of inn , the Vault-Montligeon, expiatory Work, 1894
Memories of inn , Paris, Vic and Amat, 1894

Works

Jean Ernest-Charles, literary Saturdays , Paris, international Library of edition, 1905

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