Xavier Forneret

Xavier Forneret , called " the white black man of visage" (Beaune, September 16th 1809 - August 7th 1884) French writer and poet. This rich person owner of vineyards in Burgundy became writer. Often qualified “the small romantic one” with Philothée O' Neddy, Petrus Borel, Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Lassailly, his work was drawn from the lapse of memory by André Breton which makes it appear in its Anthologie of black humor .

Its theater did not have more success than its prose and its worms at the 19th century; he nevertheless more is appreciated today, begun again in particular by André Breton, is sung by Nougaro and is evoked by Prévert. Its work remains original with like all the geniuses… of the ascending phases with astonishing, impassioned writings and the other disconcerting ones where the macabre one and the strange one sometimes makes doubt its mental health. He claims " to be a new sheet on the tree of the littérature" and it should be supposed that it arrived too early in its time. He also said that the province did not have sufficient maturity to include/understand its works….alas the success which it went to seek in Paris is not more expressed! It was in any case with its Dijonese fellow-member Aloysius Bertrand, one of the " bousingots" romanticism at the 19th century.

Some Works

Tales and accounts
Two destinies , 1834
the black man , 1835
Twenty-three . Thirty-five , 1835
Nothing… something , 1836
Without title , 1838
Vapors, neither towards nor prose and without title, by a black, white man of face , 1838
Still a year of " without titer" , 1840
Part of parts, time lost , 1840
Pleasure trip from Beaune to Autun , 1850
Letter in Victor Hugo , 1851
Lines rimées , 1853
Mother and girl , 1854
the child murder , 1856
Shade of poetry 1860
Some words on the capital punishment , 1861
Undergrowth of the thought , 1870

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