Theodore-Éloi Lebreton

Theodore-Éloi Lebreton , born with Rouen on February 1st 1803 and died in Rouen the December 12th 1883, is a Autodidacte Poète, Chansonnier and Bibliographe French.

Biography

Born from a daily father and a mother washing machine, Lebreton entered at the seven years age a factory of Indians of its birthplace, where one taught the trade of printer to him on fabrics. Hardly being able to spell, he learned, through perseverance, to read and write and, at the end of a few years, he tested the desire to trace what he felt. At fourteen years, he had arrived, saving on his wages to supplement his education while going to the spectacle, with being a workman excellent and educated in his workshop. The taste of poetry appearing in him, it was let involve by the inspiration and exhaled in worms the impressions of its heart, its pains, its joys, its hopes and its loves. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore made known the tests of the working poet to the Journal of Rouen and, finally, in 1836, a man of letters rouennais, CH. Richard, drew the &sur attention by tracing to him a draft of his life of workman and thinker and while contributing to the publication of a collection of his poetries. Hitherto Lebreton had remained in its workshop, but about this time, the town of Rouen having acquired of the collection of the books of Leber, Lebreton obtained the place lately created of assistant librarian at the Public library to manage it.

In its second collection, Lebreton had been compared with the bird out of cage:

Slave like him, like him in my being

I feel that nature and sigh and give birth to

From the songs which would like to fly away.

But calm and resigned I undergone the sentence

Of the sovereign judge referee of my fate.

“Poetry, said a critic then, came to find it itself; she wanted songs before it could write them. Today that it traces them in formless lines, it astonishes by the real inspirations which leave this feather coarsely cut, by the happy ideas which are done day through the disguises of an odd orthography. ”
In 1848, Lebreton was elected to represent the department of the Seine-Lower than the constituent Assembly but he was not re-elected with the legislative Assemblée.
Religious poet, Lebreton, in his first towards, painted the misery of the worker without seeing there of another remedy that resignation on the ground and the rest in the sky; later, its indignation took a sharper accent without going further. Member of several learned societies, this honest modest man also published various collections of songs in his birthplace of Rouen, although it was much more known in Paris.

The philosopher's stone of Lebreton is its Biographie Norman; collection of biographical notes and bibliographical on the famous characters born in Normandy and on those which were only characterized by their actions and their writings and its Biographie rouennaise; collection of biographical notes and bibliographical on the famous characters born in Rouen who made themselves famous or who were distinguished with different titles .

One also owes him Corneille in the cobbler, scene historical of the life of Pierre Corneille , in collaboration with Mr. Beuzeville represented with the Theater of arts of Rouen the June 29th 1841.

Works

Biography Norman; collection of biographical notes and bibliographical on the famous characters born in Normandy and on those which were only characterized by their actions and their writings , Rouen, Brument, 1857-1861
Biographie rouennaise; collection of biographical notes and bibliographical on the famous characters born in Rouen who made themselves famous or who were distinguished with different titles , Rouen, Brument, 1865
In France! cantata sung with the theater of the imperial circus at the time of the centenary of Napoleon i , Rouen, Orville and Uniting, 1869
Baptism of S.A.R. Mgr the count of Paris, cantata April 1841 , Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1841
Candidature of Theodore Lebreton, workman-poet, currently attached to the Library of Rouen: with the voters of the Department of Seine-Lower the , Rouen, 1839
Crow in the cobbler, historical scene of the life of Pierre Corneille , Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1841
Hope, new poetries , ED. Amélie Thicket, Paris, Counter of the linked printers, 1845
Géricault, panegyric , Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1842
Hours of rest of a workman , Rouen, E. the Large one, 1837
Homage to large the Crow , Rouen, F. Baudry, 1834
Jeanne d' Arc and Pierre Corneille , Rouen, I. - S. Lefèvre, 1841
the Marseillaise of the workers: national song , Lecointe brothers, 1800
the Death of Mgr the duke of Orleans. July 1842 , Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1842
the Peace of Villafranca (1859) , Rouen, Giroux and Renaux, 1859
Floods. Pilgrimage with Fécamp, Yport, Vaucotte and Étretat. Pieces of poetry , Rouen, Nicétas Périaux, 1842
“the captive Bird” in Sufferings of winter of Turquety, Paris, L. Boitel, 1833
New Hours of rest of a workman , Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1842
Ode on the death of Boïeldieu , Rouen, F. Baudry, 1834
a Garden and a church of Rouen , Rouen, D. Brière, 1853

Sources

Ferdinand Hoefer, New general biography , T. 30, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1855, Noémi-Black p. 128-9
Oursel, New Biography Norman , Paris, A. Picard, 1886, p. 73

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