Jean Richepin (French pronunciation: ​[Ê'É'̃ Ê iʃpɛ̃]; 4
February 1849 â€" 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and
dramatist.Son of an army doctor, Jean Richepin was born 4 February
1849 at Médéa, French Algeria.At school and at the École Normale
Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined,
powers, for which he found physical vent in different
directionsâ€"first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and
afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedoreâ€"and an intellectual outlet
in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his
erratic but unmistakable talent. A play, L'Étoile, written by him in
collaboration with André Gill (1840â€"1885), was produced in 1873;
but Richepin was virtually unknown until the publication, in 1876, of
a volume of verse entitled La Chanson des gueux, when his
outspokenness resulted in his being imprisoned and fined for outrage
aux mÅ"urs.[1]The same quality characterized his succeeding volumes of
verse: Les Caresses (1877), Les Blasphèmes (1884), La Mer (1886), Mes
paradis (1894), La Bombarde (1899). His novels have developed in style
from the morbidity and brutality of Les morts bizarres (1876), La Glu
(1881) and Le Pavé (1883) to the more thoughtful psychology of Madame
André (1878), Sophie Monnier (1884), Cisarine (1888), L'Aîné
(1893), Grandes amoureuses (1896) and La Gibasse (1899), and the more
simple portrayal of life in Miarka (1883), Les Braves Gens (1886),
Truandailles (1890), La Miseloque (1892) and Flamboche (1895).
February 1849 â€" 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and
dramatist.Son of an army doctor, Jean Richepin was born 4 February
1849 at Médéa, French Algeria.At school and at the École Normale
Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined,
powers, for which he found physical vent in different
directionsâ€"first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and
afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedoreâ€"and an intellectual outlet
in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his
erratic but unmistakable talent. A play, L'Étoile, written by him in
collaboration with André Gill (1840â€"1885), was produced in 1873;
but Richepin was virtually unknown until the publication, in 1876, of
a volume of verse entitled La Chanson des gueux, when his
outspokenness resulted in his being imprisoned and fined for outrage
aux mÅ"urs.[1]The same quality characterized his succeeding volumes of
verse: Les Caresses (1877), Les Blasphèmes (1884), La Mer (1886), Mes
paradis (1894), La Bombarde (1899). His novels have developed in style
from the morbidity and brutality of Les morts bizarres (1876), La Glu
(1881) and Le Pavé (1883) to the more thoughtful psychology of Madame
André (1878), Sophie Monnier (1884), Cisarine (1888), L'Aîné
(1893), Grandes amoureuses (1896) and La Gibasse (1899), and the more
simple portrayal of life in Miarka (1883), Les Braves Gens (1886),
Truandailles (1890), La Miseloque (1892) and Flamboche (1895).
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