Stéphen Liégeard

François Stéphene Emile Liégeard , known under the name of Stéphen Liégeard (Dijon, March 29th 1830 - Cannes, December 29th 1925) is a French writer and poet.

He is the inventor of the term “Riviera” to replace the denomination " Riviera ", term always used in Italy and by the English.

It inspired with Alphonse Daudet the character of the “sub-prefect to the fields” of the Lettres of my Mill.

Biography

Resulting from an old Dijonese family cash several goldsmiths, wire of Jean-Baptiste Liégeard, mayor of Dijon of 1863 to 1865, it leads its studies to the college of its birthplace.

It is registered in 1854 as lawyer at the bar of Dijon and gains several lawsuits. In 1857, it supports a thesis of doctorate in right, which is worth a gold medal to him. Bonapartist, author in 1859 of one poem to the glory of Napoleon III, the Bees of Gold , it enters in 1856 the prefectoral administration like advising with the prefecture of Valence. He is named in 1859 Sous-préfet with Briey (Meurthe-et-Moselle), where he marries Mathilde Labbé. Sub-prefect with Parthenay in 1861, it is named in 1864 with Carpentras. It is there that Alphonse Daudet, his neighbor, finding rhymes on the desk of Stéphen Liégeard, had the idea of his tale which appeared in the Event of October 13rd, 1866.

It leaves in 1867 the administration to be presented in the form of an official candidate to the legislative elections to Briey, where his/her father-in-law, Joseph Labbé, Ironmaster, carry on an important industrial activity. He is elected appointed of the Moselle on March 24th, 1867 then in 1869. Faithful to its convictions, it gives up the policy with the fall of the Second Empire on September 4th, 1870, and is again registered at the bar of Dijon all while being devoted to the literature.

It shares its time between its Parisian apartment, its Dijonese hotel street Vauban, its residence of Brochon; it spends the winter to Cannes, villa of the Violets, which his wife inherited in 1873. At the time of these last stays, he traverses the shores of the the Mediterranean. Its fortune enables him to make build in 1895, on its field of Brochon, not far from Dijon, a castle néorenaissance, today Lycée Stephen-Liégeard.

It published since 1852 its first collection of poetry, Souvenirs of a few evenings of summer . The Académie of the floral Plays of Toulouse names it main be-plays in 1866 and crowns its works on several occasions.

Between 1866 and 1872, it makes frequent stays with Luchon, in the Pyrenees, from which it describes the company animated in brilliant pages.

In 1887, it publishes its most famous work, the Riviera . He wrote it in Brochon, and it is probably with Hyères that he had the idea of this expression, by analogy with the name of his native department, the Coast-with Or: “along this bathed beach of rays which deserves our baptism of Riviera, Hyères the first had the idea to put its gifts blessed at the service of the disease and the hope”.

He is member as from 1891 of the Académie of Dijon, but was by three times an unfortunate candidate with the French Academy (1891, 1892,1901). In 1897, he became president of the national company of encouragement to the good.

He was officer of the Légion of honor (August 12th, 1866), commander in 1920, and officer about Saint-Gregoire.

Its name was given to a street located opposite its native house at Dijon, and to an avenue of Nice, opened in the park of old the " villa of Violettes".

Works

gold imperial Songs Bees , Paris, E. Dentu, 1859,264 p.
the crime of September 4th , Brussels, J. Rozez, 1871,68 p. of the fall of the Second Empire.
Three years with the Room , Paris, E. Dentu, 1873,397 p. of its mandate of deputy.
the Orchard from Isaure , Paris, Hatchet, 1870,234 p. * Twenty days of a tourist to the country of Luchon , Paris, Hatchet, 1874,556 p.
Through Engadine, Valteline, the Tyrol of the south and the lakes of higher Italy , Paris, Hatchet, 1877,491 p.
the Large hearts , Paris, Hatchet, 1882,242 p. crowned by the French Academy in 1894.
With the whim of the feather , Paris, Hatchet, 1884,426 p.
the Riviera , Paris, Quantin, 1887,430 p. Bordin decreed by the French Academy.
Dreams and combat , Paris, Hatchet, 1892,243 p.
seasons and the months , Paris, Old Quantin House, 100 p. * French Pages , Paris, Hatchet, 1902,489 p.
To like! Paris, Hatchet, 1906,209 p. * Bits of bay-tree , Paris, Hatchet, 1909,170 p. * avenger Rhymes , Paris, Hatchet, 1916,180 p.

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