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{{Short description|French poet}}
{{Short description|French poet}}
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[[File:JaneCatulleMendes1906.jpg|alt=A white woman with bouffant dark hair, with her hand on her chin; she is wearing a white lacy dress with a round neckline.|thumb|Jane Catulle-Mendes, from a 1906 publication.]]
[[File:JaneCatulleMendes1906.jpg|alt=A white woman with bouffant dark hair, with her hand on her chin; she is wearing a white lacy dress with a round neckline.|thumb|Jane Catulle-Mendes, from a 1906 publication.]]
[[File:Jane Catulle-Mendès 1909.jpg|alt=A white woman reclining, next to a table.|thumb|Jeanne Mette reclining next to a table in 1909.]]
[[File:Jane Catulle-Mendès 1909.jpg|alt=A white woman reclining, next to a table.|thumb|Jeanne Mette reclining next to a table in 1909.]]
'''Jeanne Mette''' (1867–1955), better known under her married name, Jane Catulle-Mendès, was a French poet who also wrote plays<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beach |first=Cecelia |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/staging-politics-and-gender-french-womens-drama-1880-1923/oclc/951524695 |title=Staging politics and gender: french women's drama 1880-1923. |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-349-52917-9 |location=New York |pages=40 |language=English |oclc=951524695}}</ref> and other prose works, and contributed to [[Pierre Lafitte (journalist)|Pierre Lafitte]]'s ''[[Femina (France)|Femina]]''.
'''Jeanne Mette''' (1867–1955), better known under her married name, Jane Catulle-Mendès, and as a French poet who also wrote plays<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beach |first=Cecelia |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/staging-politics-and-gender-french-womens-drama-1880-1923/oclc/951524695 |title=Staging politics and gender: french women's drama 1880-1923. |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-349-52917-9 |location=New York |pages=40 |language=English |oclc=951524695}}</ref> and other prose works, and contributed to [[Pierre Lafitte (journalist)|Pierre Lafitte]]'s ''[[Femina (France)|Femina]]''.


First married to [[Boussac|Louis Alexandre Boussac]], with whom she had two sons. An unflattering portrayal of her in the ''Mercure de France'' in 1911 gave rise to accusation of defamation, a lawsuit that writer [[André Rouveyre]] and the newspaper eventually lost.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/matisses-poets-critical-performance-in-the-artists-book/oclc/1284933883 |title=Matisse's poets: critical performance in the artist's book |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-5013-2686-8 |editor-last=Brown |editor-first=Kathryn |pages=236 |language=English |oclc=1284933883}}</ref>
She was first married to [[Boussac|Louis Alexandre Boussac]], with whom she had two sons. An unflattering portrayal of her in the ''Mercure de France'' in 1911 gave rise to a defamation lawsuit that writer [[André Rouveyre]] and the newspaper eventually lost.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/matisses-poets-critical-performance-in-the-artists-book/oclc/1284933883 |title=Matisse's poets: critical performance in the artist's book |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-5013-2686-8 |editor-last=Brown |editor-first=Kathryn |pages=236 |language=English |oclc=1284933883}}</ref>


During World War 1 Jane was founder of a war charity in Paris and when in New York was invited in June 1915, to give a lecture in French in Pelham Manor, New York at the home of [[Frederick Hobbes Allen|Frederick H. Allen]] and his wife Adele, whom she had met in Paris when Frederick H. Allen was a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserves Flying Corps and Adele was the head of the American Committee for Devastated France.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Semans |first=Barbara Broome |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/john-broome-and-rebecca-lloyd-their-descendants-and-related-families-18th-to-21st-centuries/oclc/728099772 |title=John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: their descendants and related families, 18th to 21st centuries |last2=Schwarz |first2=Letitia Broome |date=2009 |publisher=Xlibris |isbn=978-1-4363-2384-0 |location=United States |pages=509 |language=English |oclc=728099772}}</ref> After their divorce and her marriage to [[Catulle Mendès]], distinguished member of the famous group of poets known as Le Parnasse, Jane had a son, Primice, who was killed on the battlefields of France in 1917 at the age of twenty. Her ''La Prière sur l'enfant mort'' (Lemerre, 1921) was written in his memory.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=Clarissa Burnham |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/women-poets-of-the-twentieth-century-in-france-a-critical-bibliography/oclc/3308699 |title=Women poets of the twentieth century in France; a critical bibliography, |date=1943 |publisher=King's Crown Press |location=New York |pages=97 |language=English |oclc=3308699}}</ref>
During World War 1 Jane was founder of a war charity in Paris and when in New York was invited in June 1915, to give a lecture in French in Pelham Manor, New York at the home of [[Frederick Hobbes Allen|Frederick H. Allen]] and his wife Adele, whom she had met in Paris when Frederick H. Allen was a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserves Flying Corps and Adele was the head of the American Committee for Devastated France.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Semans |first=Barbara Broome |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/john-broome-and-rebecca-lloyd-their-descendants-and-related-families-18th-to-21st-centuries/oclc/728099772 |title=John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: their descendants and related families, 18th to 21st centuries |last2=Schwarz |first2=Letitia Broome |date=2009 |publisher=Xlibris |isbn=978-1-4363-2384-0 |location=United States |pages=509 |language=English |oclc=728099772}}</ref>
After their divorce and her marriage to [[Catulle Mendès]], distinguished member of the famous group of poets known as Le Parnasse, Jane had a son, Primice, who was killed on the battlefields of France in 1917 at the age of twenty. Her ''La Prière sur l'enfant mort'' (Lemerre, 1921) was written in his memory and details her struggles, using her literary and other connections; Pierre Loti, a Russian general, and head of Russian ambulances, to obtain permission to go and recover his body for a proper burial.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=Clarissa Burnham |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/women-poets-of-the-twentieth-century-in-france-a-critical-bibliography/oclc/3308699 |title=Women poets of the twentieth century in France; a critical bibliography, |date=1943 |publisher=King's Crown Press |location=New York |pages=97 |language=English |oclc=3308699}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jagielski |first=J.F. |last2=Collective for International Research and Debate on the 1914-1918 War |date=November 2008 |title=Catulle-Mendes, Jane (1867-1955) – Témoignages de 1914-1918 |url=https://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2008/11/26/catulle-mendes-jane-1867-1955/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Dictionary and Guide to Witnesses of The Great War 1914-18 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>


== Honours ==
== Honours ==

Revision as of 08:35, 6 March 2022

A white woman with bouffant dark hair, with her hand on her chin; she is wearing a white lacy dress with a round neckline.
Jane Catulle-Mendes, from a 1906 publication.
A white woman reclining, next to a table.
Jeanne Mette reclining next to a table in 1909.

Jeanne Mette (1867–1955), better known under her married name, Jane Catulle-Mendès, and as a French poet who also wrote plays[1] and other prose works, and contributed to Pierre Lafitte's Femina.

She was first married to Louis Alexandre Boussac, with whom she had two sons. An unflattering portrayal of her in the Mercure de France in 1911 gave rise to a defamation lawsuit that writer André Rouveyre and the newspaper eventually lost.[2]

During World War 1 Jane was founder of a war charity in Paris and when in New York was invited in June 1915, to give a lecture in French in Pelham Manor, New York at the home of Frederick H. Allen and his wife Adele, whom she had met in Paris when Frederick H. Allen was a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserves Flying Corps and Adele was the head of the American Committee for Devastated France.[3]

After their divorce and her marriage to Catulle Mendès, distinguished member of the famous group of poets known as Le Parnasse, Jane had a son, Primice, who was killed on the battlefields of France in 1917 at the age of twenty. Her La Prière sur l'enfant mort (Lemerre, 1921) was written in his memory and details her struggles, using her literary and other connections; Pierre Loti, a Russian general, and head of Russian ambulances, to obtain permission to go and recover his body for a proper burial.[4][5]

Honours

Jane Catulle-Mendès was appointed knight and officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Order Leopold I of Belgium.

Works

  • Les Charmes, E. Fasquelle, Paris, 1904
  • Le livre de Cynthia, sonnets (Mercure de France, 1912) Lire en ligne
  • Le Cœur magnifique, A. Lemerre, Paris, 1909
  • Les Petites confidences chez soi, E. Sansot, Paris, 1911
  • Les Sept Filleuls de Janou, intermède héroïque en vers, avec Léon Guillot de Saix, Paris, Sarah-Bernhardt, 21 décembre 1915
  • Poèmes des temps heureux, E. Flammarion, Paris, 1924
  • France, ma bien aimée, E. Malfère, Amiens, 1925
  • Ton amour n'est pas à toi, A. Michel, Paris, 1927
  • L'Amant et l'Amour, roman, Baudinière, Paris, 1932
  • Sampiero Corso : 1498–1567, Robeur, Paris, 1938
  • Poésie et patrie. Le Chef et les siens, A. Michel, Paris, 1945
  • La Bataille de Moscou, poème dramatique en un acte avec chœurs, Paris, Salle Pleyel, 25 février 1945
  • La Ville merveilleuse, Rio de Janeiro, poèmes, E. Sansot, Paris, s. d.
  • At the BNF

References

  1. ^ Beach, Cecelia (2005). Staging politics and gender: french women's drama 1880-1923. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-349-52917-9. OCLC 951524695.
  2. ^ Brown, Kathryn, ed. (2020). Matisse's poets: critical performance in the artist's book. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-5013-2686-8. OCLC 1284933883.
  3. ^ Semans, Barbara Broome; Schwarz, Letitia Broome (2009). John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: their descendants and related families, 18th to 21st centuries. United States: Xlibris. p. 509. ISBN 978-1-4363-2384-0. OCLC 728099772.
  4. ^ Cooper, Clarissa Burnham (1943). Women poets of the twentieth century in France; a critical bibliography,. New York: King's Crown Press. p. 97. OCLC 3308699.
  5. ^ Jagielski, J.F.; Collective for International Research and Debate on the 1914-1918 War (November 2008). "Catulle-Mendes, Jane (1867-1955) – Témoignages de 1914-1918". Dictionary and Guide to Witnesses of The Great War 1914-18 (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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