Léon Hennique
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Léon Hennique (4 November 1850, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe - 25 December 1935, Paris[1]) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright. He is buried at Ribemont.[2]
Life[edit]
Léon Hennique was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, the son of the naval infantry officer Agathon Hennique. He studied painting, but after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 devoted himself to literature and became a naturalistic novelist and dramatist. He was a friend of Émile Zola, but broke with him over the Dreyfus Affair.
Guy de Maupassant has dedicated the novel, "La Rempailleuse", to him.
As a fellow testamentary and legatee with Alphonse Daudet and Edmond de Goncourt, he helped found the Académie Goncourt. He served as its president from 1907 to 1912.
He contributed to Les Soirées de Médan (1880), with his L'Affaire du Grand 7.
He was appointed as a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1895. He was later promoted as an officer in 1908, then a commander in 1932. With each promotion he received, he was decorated by a member of the Académie Goncourt: Alphonse Daudet on January 27, 1985, then Gustave Geoffroy on February 5, 1908, and finally Pol Neveux on March 7, 1932.[3]
His daughter was the symbolist poet Nicolette Hennique.
Works[edit]
Novels
- La Dévouée (1878)
- L'Accident de M. Hébert (1883)
- Pœuf (1887)
- Un Caractère (1889)
- Minnie Brandon (1899)
Novellas
- Deux Nouvelles (1881) [In English translation: Two Novellas: Francine Cloarec's Funeral & Benjamin Rozes; Sunny Lou Publishing, ISBN 978-1-95539-204-4, 2021.]
Plays
- L'Empereur Dassoucy (1879)
- Pierrot sceptique (with Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1881)
- Jacques Damour (1887)
- Esther Brandès (1887)
- La Mort du duc d'Enghien (1888)
- Amour (1890)
- La Menteuse (1892)
- L'Argent d'autrui (1893)
- Deux Patries (1895)
- La Petite Paroisse (with Alphonse Daudet, 1895)
- Jarnac (with Johannès Gravier, 1909)
References[edit]
- ^ "Acte de décès (avec date et lieu de naissance) à Paris, 16ᵉ, nº 2413, vue 13/21".
{{cite web}}: Check|archive-url=value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Beyern, Bertrand (2011). Guide des tombes d'hommes célèbres (in French) (2nd ed.). Cherche Midi (published December 8, 2011). ISBN 9782749121697.
- ^ "Dossier consultable sur la Base Leonore (Cote LH//1283/20)".
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Sources[edit]
- "Léon Hennique", Libreriausados.com.ar (in French), archived from the original on 2018-08-11, retrieved 2018-08-11
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