Remy de Gourmont

Remy de Gourmont , born with the manor of the Mound with Bazoches-with-Houlme the, close to Nickel silver (Flowering ash), the April 4th 1858 and died in Paris the September 27th 1915, is a French writer, at the same time novelist, journalist and critic art, near the Symbolists.

Biography

Remy de Gourmont is resulting from a former family originating in the Cotentin, whose branch was established in Paris at the 16th century to found there a publisher which published books and especially many print and engraving. He is the son of the count Auguste-Marie de Gourmont and the countess, born Mathilde de Montfort.

In 1866, the family settles with the manor of Mesnil-Villeman, close to Villedieu (Manche). Remy de Gourmont is internal with the college of Coutances of 1868 with 1876. It is an excellent pupil, even if too much imagination is found to him. In 1876, it settles with Caen, 46 rue Écuyère, and undertakes studies of right. Having obtained in 1879 its diploma of graduate in right, it settles with Paris, initially Rue Richer, then shortly after 41 Rue of Hauteville.

In November 1881, it obtains an use of attache to the National library. It starts to collaborate in catholic periodicals such as Le Monde or the Contemporary . Between 1882 and 1886, it publishes various popularizing works historical but it is with a novel, Merlette (1886), whose action is located in the country of its childhood, between Villedieu and Avranches, that it makes truly its literary beginnings. The work is accommodated with indifference.

In this same year 1886, Remy de Gourmont, which had hitherto especially been interested in the history and the old literature, discovers the new esthetic searchs for its time through the review the Vogue of Gustave Kahn. It also becomes acquainted with Berthe de Courrière, model and sole legatee of the sculptor Auguste Clésinger, on whom it orders a study with the young author who is not long in becoming his lover. It inspires to him by the impassioned letters, written with the length of the year 1887 and which will be published in posthumous title under the title Lettres in Sixtine (1921). It settles at it, 71 Rue of the Holy Father, and will live there until its death.

Berthe de Courrière will remain always devoted in Remy de Gourmont. It inspires its novel Sixtine (1890), which agrees perfectly with the multiple sensitivity of its time, and which it dedicates to Villiers of Isle-Adam, of which it made knowledge at the National library and who became his friend. To the same time, it binds with Joris-Karl Huysmans, which will be the dedicatee of the Latin mystic (1892) and will take as a starting point Berthe de Courrière in its novel Là-bas , and attends Mondays of Stephan Mallarmé, Rue of Rome.

In 1889, Remy de Gourmont is, with Alfred Vallette, Louis Dumur, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, with the number of the founders of the Mercure de France , in which he will collaborate during twenty-five years. This collaboration will deeply mark the personality of the review, on which the name of Gourmont remains indissolubly dependant. In April 1891, it publishes there an article entitled " the Toy Patriotism " in which it supports that artistic and cultural affinities major between France and Germany, which should bring a bringing together of the two countries, are opposed by nationalist passions; the tone scornful of the article - more undoubtedly that the thesis itself - causes a polemic which is worth to him to be revoked National library and closes to him the columns of the major part of the large press, in spite of the efforts of its defender Octave Mirbeau, who manages all the same to make it enter to the Journal .

About the same time, Gourmont is reached by a form of lupus whose progression can be stopped only by extremely painful cauterizations, which disfigure it and give to its face an insupportable aspect. Deeply reached, there remains a long time cloister at his place and when he recovers to leave there, it is to only pass in the offices of the Mercure , street of Cop and, once per annum, for a few weeks of holidays in Coutances. For him, from now on, exist nothing any more but work and the books. It publishes, quasi-exclusivement with the Mercure de France, a vast and abundant work, made up of novels, plays, collections of poetry and especially of tests which testify to a deep scholarship.

In 1910, it meets Natalie Clifford Barney. It inspires to him a sharp passion which is exhaled in the Lettres in the Amazon , published in 1914. With it agrees to leave again and goes on even a small journey in Normandy. But the locomotor ataxia which has reached it for several years undermines its health. The First World War plunges it in a deep abatement, his/her friends left for the majority for the Face, the Mercury closed during one year. Its disease worsens, it goes more and more with difficulty. It still publishes some articles in newspapers like France and the Dispatch of Toulouse .

He dies of a stroke on September 27th 1915 and is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in the tomb of Clésinger. Berthe de Courrière inherits all the manuscripts and the library of the writer, whom it transmits to the brother of this one, Jean de Gourmont, when it dies in its turn less than one year later. This one will stick, during nearly ten years, to publish many news.

Works

; Poems

Litanies of the pink , Mercure de France, 1892.

magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

Flowers of formerly , Monnoyer printer, 1893.

magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

Hiéroglyphes , Mercure de France, 1894
Holy of the Paradise , images of G. of Espagnat, Mercure de France, 1899.
the Speeches bad ones , Mercure de France, 1900.
Simone, pastoral poem , Mercure de France, 1901.
Entertainments. Poems in worms , Crès, 1912.
new Poetries . Paris, François Bernouard, 1921.
found Rhymes , Editions of the Furnace, 1979.
Odor of the jacynthes , Editions of the Difference, coll " Orphée" , poetic anthology presented by Mr. Houellebecq, 1991.

; Novels and tales

Merlette , novel, Plon-Nourishes, 1886.
Sixtine, novel of the cerebral life , Albert Savine, 1890.

Paris, Knowledge, coll of the Chiefs of work, 1922. Drawings of G. of Espagnat.
followed Letters in Sixtine , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

the Phantom , with 2 lithographies of Henry de Groux, 1893.

magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

the singular Castle , Mercure de France, 1894.

magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

morose Proses , tales, Mercure de France, 1894.

magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

tragic History of the princess Phénissa , Mercure de France, 1894.
magic Stories , Mercure de France, 1894.

magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

the Pilgrim of silence , tales and news, Mercure de France, 1896.

Marpon Collection & Co, Paris, 1921. Illustrations by Deslignères.
magic Stories and other accounts , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

Phocas , with 3 drawings of Remy de Gourmont, collection of Ymagier, 1895.
Horses of Diomède , novel, Mercure de France, 1897.
Of a remote country. Miracles. Faces of women. Anecdotes , Mercure de France, 1898.

Ubacs Editions, Rennes, 1989. Presentation of Henri Bordillon.

the Dream of a woman. Familiar novel , novel, Mercure de France, 1899.

Ubacs Editions, Rennes, 1988. Preface of Henri Bordillon.

One night in Luxembourg , novel, Mercure de France, 1906.

At Simon Kra, With the Editions of Sagittarius, Paris, 1923. Illustrations of Serge Beaune.
Andre Plicque & Co, Paris, 1925. With wood engraved of Cosyns.
Editions Ubacs, Rennes, 1988. Preface of Dominique Sineux.

a virginal heart , novel. Cover of Georges d' Espagnat. Paris, Mercure de France, 1907.

Henri Jonquières & Co, coll " Beautiful the romans" , Drawings of Siméon. Paris, 1923.

Colors, new tales followed old Things . Paris, Mercure de France, 1908.

Editions of the Dream, Brussels, 1923. Decorated compositions of Jean Laueffer.

Letters of a satyr . Paris, Crès, coll " Masters of the livre" , 1913. Frontispiece of Vibert.

Editions Ubacs, Rennes, 1989. Presentation of Henri Bordillon.

Letters in the Amazon , frontispiece of Vibert, Crès, 1914.
Mr Crunching , Crès, 1918.
the Patience of Grisélidis . Illustrations of P.A. Moras. Paris, Editions of Sagittarius, 1920.
Letters in Sixtine . Mercure de France, 1921.

Andre Plicque & Co, Paris, 1927. With wood engraved of Paul Baudier.
Preceded by Sixtine , U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1982.

magic Vase . Paris, the Fine Couch, 1923.
of walk and three other tales . Paris, With the sign of the narrow Door, 1925.

Rumor of the Ages, La Rochelle, 1993.

the Distress , novel, Editions of the Lyric Clown, 2006. (written in 1899)

; Theater

Lilith , Tests of Free Art, 1892.
Théodat , Mercure de France, 1893.

Theater. Théodat - the Old King . Paris, Crès, 1925.

the Old King , Mercure de France, 1897.

Theater. Théodat - the Old King . Paris, Crès, 1925.

Shade of a woman , part in an act and prose, Champion, 1923.

; Tests and chronic

a Volcano in Eruption , A. Degorce-Cadot, " Library of the I" Young age; , 1882.
a City Ressuscitée , A. Degorce-Cadot, " Library of the II" Young age; , 1883.
Bertrand of Guesclin , A. Degorce-Cadot, 1883.
Storms and Naufrages , A. Degorce-Cadot, 1883.
Last Days of Pompéi , A. Degorce-Cadot, 1884.
In Balloon , A. Degorce-Cadot, 1884.
French in Canada and in Acadie . With 50 engravings. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1888.
At the Lapps, manners, habits and legends of Norwegian Lapland . With 31 engravings. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1890.

Astral Beaver, 1990. Preface of Christian Mériot.

"The Patriotisme" Toy; , Mercure de France , April 1891.
mystical Latin. Poets of the antiphonaire and symbolic system with the Middle Ages , foreword of J. - K. Huysmans, Mercure de France, 1892.

re-examined and increased Edition, Crès, 1922.

the Idealism , Mercure de France, 1893.
Ymagier , as a coll with Alfred Jarry, 2 volumes, 1896.
popular Poetry , Mercure de France and Ymagier, 1896.
the Book of the masks . Drawings of Felix Vallotton. Mercure de France, 1896. Testimony of first order on the writers of the movement Symbolist.

Manucius Editions, Coals, 2007. Presented and annotated by D. Grojnowski.

Almanac of " Ymagier" , zodiacal, astrological, literary, artistic, magic, cabalistic and prophetic , with 15 wood of G. of Espagnat, Ymagier, 1897.
the Second Book of the Masks , drawings of Felix Vallotton, Mercure de France, 1898.

Manucius Editions, Coals, 2007. Presented and annotated by D. Grojnowski.

Esthetic of French language , Mercure de France, 1899.
Culture of the ideas , Mercure de France, 1900.

U.G.E., coll " 10/18" , foreword of Hubert June, 1983.

Small Reviews. Test of bibliography with a foreword of Remy de Gourmont, Mercure de France, 1900.
the velvet Way. New dissociations of ideas . Paris, Mercure de France, 1902.
the Problem of the style , Mercure de France, 1902.
Epilogs (Reflections on the life, 1895-1898) , Mercure de France, 1903.

Epilogs II (1899-1901) Mercure de France, 1904.

Epilogs III (1902-1904) , Mercure de France, 1905.

Dialogs of the amateurs on the things of time (Epilogs IV, 1905-1907), 1907.
New Dialogs of the amateurs on the things of time (Epilogs V, 1905-1907), 1910.

Epilogs (complementary volume, 1905-1912). Physical Mercure de France, 1913.

of the love. Test on the sexual instinct , Mercure de France, 1903.

literary Walks , Mercure de France, 1904.

literary Walks , 2nd series, Mercure de France, 1906.

literary Walks , 3rd series, Mercure de France, 1909.

literary Walks , 4th series, Mercure de France, 1912.

literary Walks , 5th series, Mercure de France, 1913.

literary Walks , 6th series, Mercure de France, 1926.

literary Walks , 7th series, Mercure de France, 1927.

Judith Gautier , biography, Sansot, 1904.

philosophical Walks , Mercury of France, 1905.

philosophical Walks , 2nd series, Mercure de France, 1908.

philosophical Walks , 3rd series, Mercure de France, 1909.

Dante, Beatrice and poetry in love . Test on the female ideal in Italy at the end of XIIIe century. Mercure de France, 1908.

the Cat of misery. Ideas and images , chronicles. Paris, Company of the Thirty, Albert Messein, 1912.

the Small town, Mercure de France, 1913.

the Small town followed Landscapes . Rééd. Paris, literary Company of France, 1916. Illustrations by Louis Jou.

"Steps on sand… " , literary Almanac Crès , Paris, 1914. With a portrait by E. Vibert.

Steps on sand . Ornaments engraved on wood by Alexandre Noll. Paris, literary Company of France, 1919.

Of the steps on sand… follow-up of Thought new and Last new thoughts . Rennes, Ubacs Editions, 1989. Presentation of Henri Bordillon.

literary Belgium . Paris, Crès, 1915.
During the storm , wood of Andre Rouveyre, Champion, 1915.
In the storm (April-July 1915) . Preface of Jean de Gourmont. Paris, Crès, coll " Bellum" , 1916.
During the war. Letters for Argentina , foreword of Jean de Gourmont, Mercure de France, 1917.
Ideas of the day, 2 volumes, T.I (October 1914 - April 1915), T. II (May 1915 - September 1915), Crès, coll " Bellum" , 1918.
Three Legends of the Middle Ages . Paris, Company of the Thirty, Albert Messein, 1919.
Thought new , with 18 drawings of Raoul Dufy, foreword of Guillaume Apollinaire. Paris, Editions of the Siren, 1920.

Of the steps on sand… follow-up of Thought new and Last new thoughts . Rennes, Ubacs Editions, 1989. Presentation of Henri Bordillon.

the Booklet of " Ymagier" , wood of Daragnès. Paris, Editions of Sagittarius, 1921.

Small Pencils , chronicles. Paris, Crès, 1921.

the Well of the truth , chronicles. Paris, Company of the Thirty, Albert Messein, 1922.

Last new Thoughts . Paris, François Bernouard, 1924.

Of the steps on sand… follow-up of Thought new and Last new thoughts . Rennes, Ubacs Editions, 1989. Presentation of Henri Bordillon.

Dissociations . Paris, Editions of the Century, 1925.
New Dissociations , Editions of the Century, 1925.
End of art , chronicles. Paris, Books of Paris, 1925.
Women and the language , At Mrs Lesage, Paris, 1925.
Two poets of nature: Bryant and Emerson . Paris, the Hundred, 1925.
the Toy and three other tests , with 10 wood of Joseph Quesnel, the Beautiful Page, 1926.
intimate Letters in the Amazon , with 52 lithographies of Andre Rouveyre, Mercure de France, 1926.

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