Ponson of Terrail
See also: Ponson (homonymy)
Pierre Alexis, Ponson Viscount of Terrail (July 8th 1829 with Montmaur (Hautes-Alpes) - January 10th 1871 with Bordeaux) is a popular writer at the 19th century and one of the Masters of the Roman-feuilleton. It is famous for its character Rocambole.
Biography
Ponson of Terrail starts to write about 1850. Its first writings are of Gothic style. For example, the trespassed Baroness (1852) is a history of revenge located around 1700 in the Black Forest.During more than twenty years, it will provide in serials all the Parisian press ( the National opinion , the Fatherland , the Monitor , the Small Newspaper , etc) Its work contains many Calembour S, for example: “By seeing the empty bed, its face became it too. ” Writing very quickly and without reading again itself, it strews its novels with whimsical sentences such as “Its hands were as cold as those of a snake” or “With a hand, it raised its dagger, and other it says to him…”
It is in 1857 that it starts the drafting of the Romance first of the cycle Rocambole (cycle sometimes known under the title Dramas of Paris ): the mysterious Heritage , which appears in the newspaper the Fatherland . It mainly aims at making profitable success Mystères of Paris of Eugene Sue. Rocambole becomes a great popular success, getting for Ponson of Terrail an important and durable source of revenue. On the whole it will write nine novels putting in the Rocambole high-speed motorboat.
In August 1870, whereas the novelist has just started the drafting of another episode of the saga of Rocambole, Napoleon III capitulates to the Germans. Faithful to the image of the Bayard knight - from which Ponson borrowed its name of lord “of Terrail” -, it leaves Paris for Orleans, where it forms a militia in order to make the Guerilla. But it is quickly obliged to flee with Bordeaux, the Germans having set fire to his castle.
He dies in Bordeaux in 1871, leaving unfinished the saga of Rocambole. He is buried with the Cimetière of Montmartre in Paris.
Among its other novels, let us quote the Slides of the world (1853) and the Blacksmith of Court-God (1869). In spite of its vast romantic production - one estimates it at 73 titles -, its diffuse style confined its fame with the “para-literature”.
Summary bibliography
; Rocambole- Exploits of Rocambole or dramas of Paris (1859-1884):
- the Heritage mysterious
- the Club of the Knaves of hearts
- Exploits of Rocambole , followed the Revenge of Baccarat
- Knights of the moonlight , composed of:
- the Manuscript of the Domino and the Last Incarnation of Rocambole
- the Will of Grain of salt and the Castle of Beautiful-Shade
- the Resurrection of Rocambole , composed of:
- Bagne of Toulon , Orphan the , Madeleine , Redemption and the Revenge on Wasilika
- the Last Word of Rocambole , composed of:
- the Ravageurs , the Million the gipsy , the Club of burst the , the Beautiful Flower stand and the Return of Rocambole
- the Truth on Rocambole , composed of:
- the Truth on Rocambole , Nourrisseuse of children , the Child lost and the Mill without water
- Miseries of London , composed of:
- Newgate , the Cemetery of the torture victims , a drama in Southwark , the Hell of mistress Burtin , Loves of the Limousin , Captivity of the Master , the Insane one of Bedlam and the Man in gray
- Demolitions of Paris and the Cord of hung
; Others
Related articles
- Romance popular
- Romance serial
External bonds
- Books of Ponson of Terrail of the Project Gutenberg
- Books of Ponson of Terrail on Ebooks free and free, with in particular a bibliographical memorandum and a synopsis of the adventures of Rocambole (of which totality is in the course of republication on this site).
References
- E. - M. Strong, Biography of Alexis Ponson of Terrail , editions A. Barthélémy, 2001 Collective
- , “the Truth on Ponson”, '' Rocambole '' n°38, winter 2006,176 pages
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