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Louis Octave Uzanne , born with Auxerre the September 14th 1851 and died in Saint-Cloud the October 31st 1931, is a man of letters, bibliophile, editor and journalist French.

Biography

After traditional studies with the college of Auxerre, it is established with Paris to devote itself to bibliophilism. Starting from 1875, it collaborates in the Conseiller of the Bibliophile and founds then successively four reviews: Miscellanées bibliographical , the Book , the modern Book and Art and the Idea . It publishes new works, with bio-bibliographical notes, of many authors, such as Paradis of Moncrif and Benserade, Caylus and Besenval, Sade and Baudelaire. In 1889, with 160 other people, it founds a company of edition of French writers, the Company of the contemporary bibliophiles, become later the Company of the independent bibliophiles.

It publishes also personal works: novels, works of imagination, bibliographical studies, among which one generally quotes his works on the female fashion. They are editions sumptuously illustrated, with small pulling, produced in collaboration with artists such as Paul April and Félicien Rops. Between two books, Uzanne leaves in excursion to London or Brussels; it makes the round the world tour in 1893. It was one of the witnesses of Jean Lorrain at the time of sound duel, with Meudon, with Marcel Proust on February 6th 1897. He attends the mediums of the Art nouveau and of the symbolism and binds in particular with Jean Lorrain, Barbey d' Aurevilly, Remy de Gourmont, Albert Robida. Uzanne collaborates with this last to write a collection of Contes for the bibliophiles , which contains the famous news entitled the End of the books . It also contributes to newspapers and reviews such as the Feather , the Echo of Paris , the Dispatch of Toulouse , Le Figaro , the Mercure de France . It spends its last years in its apartment of Saint-Cloud, always surrounded by books and always writing, where its faithful comes “to intend Octave Uzanne to still stir up tepid ashes this past which it liked. ”

Judgments

Antoine Albalat

Charming spirit, very out of laces and fanfreluches, Mr. Uzanne crumpled the Humanities, bibeloté the History, teased Psychology, coquetté with Criticism. It made pretty scholarship of boudoir, the fardée and powdered literature most gallant of the world. He told the Éventail , the Ombrelle , tempting the artifices of the female beauty, pleasant jests, whose I appreciate all the charm, but perhaps insufficient preparations being studied severe of the style.

Remy de Gourmont

Uzanne is interested in all, but with good to penetrate it, one realizes that it is with art that its most various concerns tend. It has seeks it until in the material fitting of the books, until in the female toilet. The book and the woman, such were the first loves of Uzanne, and I do not believe that he disavowed them, because its library is always rich in invaluable and rare books, and the first work which he wanted to improve and republish for the general public, it is precisely a mongraphy of the Parisian one. One thinks of Sebastien Mercier and Restif of Breton the, and one is not wrong. It is between these two large observers of French manners and the human heart that Octave Uzanne is placed naturally.

Principal publications

Whims of a bibliophile (1878) Extracted in line
the Odds and ends the love (1879) Text in line
the Venus Calendar (1880) Text on line: Gutenberg Gallica
Surprises of the heart (1881)
the Range (1882) Text in line
the Sunshade, the glove, the sleeve (1883) Text in line
Its Highness the woman (1885)
Our friends books. Talks on the curious literature and the bookstore (1886). Republication: The Jacob's ladder, Dijon, 2006.
the Frenchwoman of the century: modes, manners, uses (1886) Text in line
the artistic and whimsical modern Binding (1887)
the Mirror of the World, notes and feelings of the picturesque life (1888) Text in line
Zigzags of curious: talks on the art of the books and the literature of art (1888) Text in line
the Parishioner of the single person, observations physiological and morals on the state of the celibacy (1890)
Art and the Idea. Contemporary review or literary Dilettantism and of curiosity (2 volumes, 1892)
Physiology of the quays of Paris, the Royal Bridge to the Bridge Sully (1892)
Secondhand booksellers and bouquineurs. Physiology of the quays of Paris of the royal Bridge to the bridge Sully (1893)
Ornaments of the woman: the range, the sunshade, the glove, the sleeve (1892). Republication of the Range and the Sunshade, the glove, the sleeve Text in line
Twenty days in the New World (1893) Text in line
Tales for the bibliophiles (1894). With Albert Robida. Contains: End of the books . Text in line
Parisian of this time in their various mediums, states and conditions: studies to be used for the history of the women, the company, the French galantery, contemporary manners and male selfishness (1894) Republication: Mercure de France, 1910. Text in line
the Woman in Paris: our contemporary, successive notes on the Parisian ones of this time in their various mediums, states and conditions (1894)
Hairstyles of style: the eccentric ornament, time Louis XVI (1895)
Tales for the bibliophiles (1895)
Dictionary bibliophilosophic, typological, iconophilesque, bibliopegic and bibliotechnic with the use of the bibliognostes, the booklovers and the bibliophilistins (1896)
Féminies: eight new chapters devoted to the woman, the love, the beauty (1896). With Gyp, Abel Hermant, Henri Lavedan and Marcel Schwob.
the School of faunas, imaginations muliéresques, tales of the twentieth year: Odds and ends of the love, Venus Calendar, Surprised heart (1896)
the Bohemian one of the heart, memories and feelings of a single person (1896)
Evolutions of the book. The news bibliopolis, voyage of an innovator to the country of the Néo-icono-booklovers (1897)
Art in decoration external of the books in France and abroad: illustrated covers, boardings of editors, the binding of art (1898)
Monument esthematic of the XIXe century: modes of Paris, variations of the taste and the esthetics of the woman, 1797-1897 (1898) Text in line
the Panacea of the Captain Hauteroche (1899). Text in line
the Hood. Visions of our hour: things and people who pass, notations of art, literature and picturesque life (1899)
Sports and transport in France and abroad: the locomotion through the history and manners (1900)
the Art and the artifices of the beauty (1902)
Both Canaletto, biography criticizes (1907)
the contemporary Spectacle; sottisier of manners: some ridiculous vanities and of the day, esthetic, domestic and social modes, ways of living, of being and of appearing, bluffs scientific and medical, evolution in the manners, the spirit and the taste (1911)
Celibacy and love: treaty of passion life and female dilection (1912) Text in line
Lorraine Jean: the intimate artist, friend, memories, new letters (1913) Text in line
Instantaneous of England: London and its social life, spectacles society men, sportsmen and soldiers, popular art and artists, types, the woman in London, British manners, landscapes and pilgrimages (1914)
Barbey d' Aurevilly (1927)
Perfumes and make-ups through the ages (1927)

; Bibliographical reviews

Miscellanées (1878-1880). With Edouard Rouveyre.
the Book, review of the literary world, files of the writings of this time, modern bibliography (1882-1889)
the modern Book, re-examined literary world and contemporary bibliophiles (1890-1891)
Art and the Idea (1892)

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