Joseph Autran
Joseph Autran (20 June 1813 – 6 March 1877) was a French poet.
Joseph Autran

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- Name
- Joseph Autran
- Born
- 20 June 1813
- Birthplace
- Marseille, France
- Died
- 6 March 1877
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- Lycée Thiers
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Joseph Autran (20 June 1813 – 6 March 1877) was a French poet.
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• Name — Joseph Autran • Born — 20 June 1813 • Birthplace — Marseille, France • Died — 6 March 1877 • Place of death — Marseille, France • Occupation — Poet
Biography
Biography
Autran was born in Marseille. In 1832 he addressed an ode to Alphonse de Lamartine, who was then at Marseille on his way to the East. Lamartine persuaded the young man's father to allow him to follow his poetic instinct, and Autran became Lamartine's faithful disciple from then on. His best known work is La Mer (1835), remodelled in 1852 as Les Poèmes de la mer. Ludibria ventis (1838) followed, and the success of these two volumes gained for Autran the librarianship of his native town. In 1844/5 Franz Liszt, who met Autran in Marseille in 1844, set four of his poems, La terre, Les aquilons, Les flots and Les astres, for choir and piano as a cycle, Les quatre élémens. Autran's other important work is his Vie rurale (1856), a series of pictures of peasant life. The Algerian campaigns inspired him with verses in honour of the common soldier. Milianah (1842) describes the heroic defence of that town, and in the same vein is his Laboureurs et soldats (1854). Among his other works are the Paroles de Salomon (1868), Épîtres rustiques (1861), Sonnets capricieux, and a tragedy played with great success at the Odéon in 1848, La Fille d'Eschyle. A definitive edition of his works was brought out between 1875 and 1881. He became a member of the Académie française in 1868, and died at Marseille nine years later.
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• Le Départ pour l'Orient: ode à M. Alphonse de Lamartine (1832) • La Mer: poésies (1835) • Ludibria ventis: poésies nouvelles (1838) • L'An 40: ballades et poésies musicales, suivies de Marseille (1840) • Milianah: poème (1841) • Italie et Semaine sainte à Rome (1841) • La Fille d'Eschyle: étude antique en 5 actes, en vers, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 9 mars 1848 • Les Poëmes de la mer (1852) • Laboureurs et soldats (1854) • La Vie rurale: tableaux et récits (1856) • Etienne et Clémentine (1858) • Épîtres rustiques (1861) • Le Poème des beaux jours (1862) • Le Cyclope, d'après Euripide (1863) • Paroles de Salomon (1869) • Sonnets capricieux (1873) • La Légende des paladins (1875) • Œuvres complètes (1875–82)
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Joseph Autran is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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1813
Joseph Autran born at Marseille.
1877
Joseph Autran died at Marseille.
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- 1.Acte de décès sur le site des Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône
- 2.G. Walch, Anthologie des poètes français contemporains, 1920, pg 28
- 3.L'académie de Marseille, ses origines, ses publications, ses archives, ses membres. Barlatier-Feissat. 1877 pages.
- 4.Barbey d'Aurevilly, les œuvres et les hommes, III, Les poètes. 1862, pg 268 ss. :Wikisource:Page:Barbey d’Aurevilly - Les Poètes, 1862.djvu/268
- 5.Revue des deux mondes, 1853, tome IV, p. 1042 en ligne
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