Alexandre Guiraud
Illustration — Alexandre Guiraud Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Thérèse Guiraud better known as Alexandre Guiraud (24 December 1788 – 24 February 1847) was a French poet, dramatic author and novelist.
Also recorded as Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Thérèse Guiraud · Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Therese Guiraud
Alexandre Guiraud

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- Full name
- Pierre-Marie-Jeanne-Alexandre-Thérèse Guiraud.
- Born
- 1788. · Limoux.
- Died
- 1847. · former 10th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, playwright, novelist and writer.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Alexandre Guiraud Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Thérèse Guiraud better known as Alexandre Guiraud (24 December 1788 – 24 February 1847) was a French poet, dramatic author and novelist.
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Biography
Guiraud was born in Limoux, in Languedoc (now in Aude), the son of a rich cloth merchant. He studied at the École de droit de Toulouse where he created a "Gymnase littéraire". He made frequent trips to Paris where the success of his poetry opened the doors to the Académie française to which he was elected against Alphonse de Lamartine in 1826. He was named Baron by Charles X in 1827 in reward for his contribution to the opera Pharamond. He was the author of many elegiac poems as well as tragedies and novels. He died in Paris.
Works
Works
• Élégies savoyardes (1822) • Les Machabées, ou le Martyre, tragédie en 5 actes, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 14 June 1822 • Le Comte Julien, ou l'Expiation, tragédie en 5 actes, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 12 April 1823 • Cadix ou la délivrance de l'Espagne (1823) • Chants hellènes, Byron, Ipsara (1824) • Poèmes et chants élégiaques (1824) • Pharamond, poème de MM. Ancelot, Guiraud, et Soumet, musique de MM. Boieldieu, Berton et Kreutzer, Paris, Académie royale de musique, 10 June 1825 • Le Prêtre (1826) • Virginie, tragédie en 5 actes et en vers, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 28 April 1827 • Césaire, révélation (2 vol.) (1830) • La Communion du duc de Bordeaux (1832) • Les Deux Princes (1832) • De la Vérité dans le système représentatif (1834) • Flavien, ou De Rome au désert (3 vol.) (1835) • Poésies dédiées à la jeunesse (1836) • Philosophie catholique de l'histoire, ou l'Histoire expliquée; introduction renfermant l'histoire de la création universelle (3 vol.) (1839–41) • Le Cloître de Villemartin, poésie (1843) • Œuvres complètes (4 vol.) (1845)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Alexandre Guiraud was recorded at birth as Pierre-Marie-Jeanne-Alexandre-Thérèse Guiraud. The authorities additionally record the headings Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Thérèse Guiraud and Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Therese Guiraud. His recorded language was French.
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Alexandre Guiraud is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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1788
Alexandre Guiraud born at Limoux.
1847
Alexandre Guiraud died at former 10th arrondissement of Paris.
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Limoux.
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- 1.Étienne Charavay. A. de Vigny et Charles Baudelaire. Charavay frères. 1879.
- 2.Propriétaire du château de Villemartin, il avait acheté le couvent des Carmes de Perpignan, détruit au début du , et l’y avait fait remonter sur son domaine.
- 3.Laurence Turetti. 1342-1842, le poète déménage le cloître. Midi le magazine. 3 mai 2021. 22 à 23.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Notice biographique sur la vie et les travaux littéraires du baron Guiraud, Paris, 1845, in-8°, 11 p.
- Discours de réception de J.-J. Ampère, Paris, 1848, in-4°.
- Louis Ratisbonne (éd.). Journal d’un poête. Michel Lévy. 1867.
- Alfred Potiquet. L’Institut national de France. Didier. 1871.
- Laurence Turetti, Ces Audois qui ont fait l'histoire. Alexandre Guiraud, un poète et son cloître. Éditions Le Papillon Rouge, Villevayrac 2024. p. 56 à 60
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