Armand Silvestre — Wikipedia

Paul- Armand Silvestre is a French writer, novelist, poet, storyteller, librettist and art critic born the April 18, 1837 in the old first ^is district of Paris ^{[ 2 ]} and dead the February 19, 1901 In Toulouse ^{[ 3 ]} .

Armand Silvestre is born the April 18, 1837 in Paris. Son of a Parisian magistrate, he is first intended for the judiciary. But the study of mathematics led him to the École Polytechnique, which he released, in 1859, engineering officer, after having published some scientific memories. He quickly left the military career and devoted himself to literature.

From 1866, he published collections of worms. It also appears in Contemporary Parnassus (1869 and 1876). As an art and theater critic, he actively collaborates on newspapers such as l’Opinion nationale , the Official newspaper , The Estafette and the Grande Revue de Paris and Saint-Petersburg .

In 1869, he entered the Ministry of Finance. He becomes a sous-chef at the Library and Archives office.

During the War of 1870-1871, he returned to service and campaign as captain.

In 1879, he entered the Gil blas And publishes news and humorous and Gallic tales there. His friend Guy de Maupassant dedicated him in 1883 the new Cough . This humorous verve then finds to express themselves at the publisher Paul Ollendorff with the series “The week for laughter”, a concept which he then developed alongside Catulle Mendès at Dentu, in 1888, in the form of a weekly sheet .

In the 1880s, it also belonged to the literary direction of The echo of Paris Just like Octave Mirbeau. He supports the UBU ROI Alfred Jarry ^{[ 4 ]} .

Knight of the Legion of Honor on July 7, 1886.

The October 12, 1892 , he is appointed inspector of Fine Arts. He experienced a great admiration for the painter Juana Romani, dedicating her poem to him, a woman with a rose.

Towards the end of the 1880s, he made some more or less virulent enemies among his young colleagues. The fiercest is, obviously, Léon Bloy. In 1887, in the desperate , Silvestre appears under the pseudonym of Andoche Sylvain (Ch. LVIII). Bloy, who says “the most read” of the writers he hates and he gathered in this chapter, thus measures his influence and his genius: “The newspaper where he vixen His prose and even his verses him must, it seems, his prosperity and doubles his prints on the days when the name of the Coryphée Ruile in summary. He is, in fact, the creator of a two -headed chronicle whose power is incredible on the ministry employee and the commercial traveler. Alternatively, he farts and coo. “For prose, Bloy drives the nail, saying that this writer” … represents, to be honest, The Gallic Spirit . He constantly recommends himself from Rabelais, of which he believes he has the genius, and which he thinks to renew by rehashing the odyssey of the culier hose and the large colon. Further on, we learn that Silvestre lived in Asnières, in what Bloy calls a “castel”.

Alphonse Allais is also, sometimes, sometimes, without too much acrimony, with innuendo to genius so special that Bloy stigmatized. Thus, on August 10, 1889, in the black Cat , he addressed an open letter To Mr. Armand Sylvestre (sic), lyric and firecracker poet , title in which it must be understood that final neologism is rather a name than an adjective, and aims at the prosaic part of his work.

During the Dreyfus affair, he became a member of the French Fatherland League, Moderate Anti-Drayfusard League ^{[ 5 ] , [ 6 ]} . He rubs shoulders with the painters Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, the poets José-Maria de Heredia and Pierre Louÿs, the composer Vincent d’Indy, etc.

He died the February 19, 1901 In Toulouse. He had the privilege of having a bronze statue in the garden of plants, now disappeared, because it was melted by the Germans during the occupation. Initiated by Pierre Dumas then first ^is Deputy mayor (Raymond Badiou), responsible for culture, a stone bust is exhibited on Wilson square.

The works of Armand Silvestre were mainly published by Alphonse Lemerre and Gervais Charpentier.

Armand Silvestre poems have been set to music by Gabriel Fauré, in the form of melodies for a voice and piano ( The secret , Autumn , …).

His poem Past days was set to music by Léo Delibes under the title Regrets ^{[ 7 ]} .

From 1888 to 1891, he published weekly The joyfulities of the week , each publication containing three illustrated comic stories, which are published by Paul Genay, at the office of Youth recreation , rue du Croissant ^{[ 8 ]} .

Poetry [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• New and old rhymes , with a preface by George Sand (1866) see on Gallica [first]
• Renaissions (1870)
• The glory of memory, love poem (1872)
• Poems, 1866-1874. The loves. The life. Love (1875)
• The song of the hours, new poems (1874-1878) (1878)
• The land of roses, new poems, 1880-1882 (1882)
• The Star Chemin: The Adorations, the Song of the Days, Music of Love, Latest Tendresses, Dialogués poems, 1882-1885 (1885)
• The top of the basket: impressions and memories, Toulouse suns, seasonal words, in the land of dreams (1885)
• Poems, 1872-1878. Hours song (1887)
• The gold wings, new poems (1890)
• October roses, poems, 1884-1889 (1890)
• Poetry, 1866-1872. New and old rhymes. Renaissions. The glory of memory (1892)
• The gold of the sleeping rooms, new poems, 1889-1892 (1892)
• Trans Sonnets Pour Mademoiselle is carried (1896)
• The distant dawn, new poems, 1892-1895 (1896)
• The tenderness, new poems, 1895-1898 (1898)
• Winter flowers, new poems, 1898-1900 (1900)

Prose [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Theater and booklets [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Dimitri , opera in 5 acts and 7 paintings, with Henri de Bornier, music by Victorin de Joncières, Paris, Théâtre National-Lyrique, first ^is May 1876
• Sir ? Comédie-Bouffe in 3 acts, with Paul Burani, Paris, Athenaeum-Comique, October 24, 1879
• Myrrh , Roman Saynet, Paris, Cercle des Arts Liberals, December 20, 1879
• Storm , Symphonic poem in 3 parts, after Shakespeare, with Pierre Berton, Music of Alphonse Duvernoy, Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, November 18, 1880
• Poppy , Opera-comic in 3 acts, according to the Cognard brothers, music by Louis Varney, Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, March 2, 1882
• Gallant adventure , Opera-comic in 3 acts, with Louis Davyl, music by Ernest Guiraud, Paris, Opera-Comique, March 23, 1882
• Henry VIII , opera in 4 acts and 6 paintings, with Léonce Detroyat, music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Paris, Opera, March 5, 1883
• Pedro de Zalamea , opera in 4 acts, with Léonce Detroyat, music by Benjamin Godard, Antwerp, Royal Theater, January 31, 1884
• The Templar Knights , Opera in 5 acts and 7 tables, with Jules Adenis and Lionel Bonnemère, music by Henry Litolff, Brussels, Théâtre de la Monnaie, January 25, 1886
• The husband of a day , Opera-comic in 3 acts, with Adolphe d’Ennery, Music by Arthur Coquard, Paris, Opéra-Comique, February 4, 1886
• Thesis , drama in 4 acts, with Georges Maillard, Brussels, Molière Theater, October 29, 1887; Under the direction of Paul Alhaiza (Source: Journal Le Globe Illustrated)
• Jocelyn , opera in 4 acts, according to the poem of Lamartine, with Victor Capoul, music by Benjamin Godard, Brussels, Théâtre de la Monnaie, February 1888
• CHANS-CRISSED OF LOVE , opera-work in 1 act, with Édouard Cavailhon, music of Auguste de Villebichot, 1888
• The woman bookmaker , operetta in 1 act, with Édouard Cavailhon, music by Germain Laurens, 1888
• sapho , February 1889
• The pilot , opera in 3 acts and 4 paintings, with A. Gandrey, music by J. Urich, Monte-Carlo, Casino, March 29, 1890
• c , drama in 1 act and in verse, Paris, Comédie-Française, March 6, 1893
• Sacred dramas , Dramatic poem in 1 prologue and 10 paintings, in verse, with Eugène Morand (1853-1930), music by Charles Gounod, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, March 15, 1893
• IZEÿL , Drama in 4 acts, with Eugène Morand, Music by Gabriel Pierné, Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance, January 24, 1894
• The Fairy of the Rock , Ballet-Pantomime in 2 acts and 6 paintings, with Francis Thomé and Jules Chéret, 1894
• Salomé , lyrical pantomime, with Meltzer, music by Gabriel Pierné, Paris, Théâtre de l’Athénée, March 4, 1895
• The Flower Knight, Ballet-Pantomime , music by André Messager and Raoul Pugno, at the Marigny Theater ^{[ 9 ] , [ ten ]} .
• Tristan de Léonois , drama in 3 acts and 7 paintings, including 1 prologue, in verse, Paris, Comédie-Française, October 28, 1897
• Cross roads , Twelve religious poems by Armand Silvestre, set to music by Alexandre Georges, 1897

• Messaline , lyrical drama in 4 acts and 5 paintings, with Eugène Morand, music by Isidore de Lara, 1899
• Charlotte Corday , Musical drama in 3 acts, Paris, Popular Opera, February 1901
• Grisélidis , lyrical tale in 3 acts and 1 prologue, with Eugène Morand, created at the Comédie-Française on May 15, 1891. The authors drawn a booklet for an eponymous mystery represented on November 13, 1901 at the Opéra-Comique on music from Jules Massenet.
• Knight of Eon , opera-comic in 4 acts, with Henri Cain, Music by Rodolphe Berger, Paris, Théâtre de la Pacit-Partin, April 10, 1908

Music [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Édouard Lalo, Sadness, to the one who leaves , 2 poems set to music, extracts from The gold wings
• Camille Saint-Saëns, Heavenly fire , Cantate for solo soprano, choir, orchestra, organ and a recovery, op. 115 (on a poetry by Armand Silvestre)
• Gabriel Fauré, Madrigal , on. 35 (1883) [ listen online ]
• Albert rossel, Dreams (1900)

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• Notes in generalist dictionaries or encyclopedias :
• Léonore base
• Armand Silvestre
• Paul Verlaine, Armand Silvestre , monograph published in the journal Men today , n ^O 265; Texte on Wikisource
• Large universal dictionary Larousse , volume 17, second supplement, 1890.
• René Dumesnil, Realism and naturalism , collection History of French literature (dir. J. Calvet), of the Duca, 1968
• G. Walch, Anthology of contemporary French poets , Sully Prudhomme, Delagrave et Leyde, preface, 57 ^{It is} which, in 1922; p. 356-358 .