Léon Cladel
Illustration — Léon Cladel Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface.
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Léon Cladel
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- Born
- 1834 · Montauban.
- Died
- 1892 · Sèvres.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · poet · jurist
- Fields
- prose · law · literary activity
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Léon Cladel Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface.
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He then returned to his native district of Quercy in southwestern France, where he produced a series of stories of peasant life in Eral le dompteur (1865), Le Nomm Qouael (1868) and other volumes, similar to the works of Émile Pouvillon. Returning to Paris he published the two novels which are generally acknowledged as his best work, Le Bouscassié (1869) and La Fête votive de Saint-Bartholomée Porte-Glaive (1872). Une Maudite (1876) was judged dangerous to public morals and cost its author a month's imprisonment. Other works by Cladel are Les Va-nu-pieds (1873), a volume of short stories; N'a-qu'un-oeil (1882), Urbains et ruraux (1884), Gueux de marque (1887), and the posthumous Juive errante (1897). He died in Sèvres on 21 July 1892.
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1834
Léon Cladel born at Montauban.
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1892
Léon Cladel died at Sèvres.
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- Edmond Picard - Léon Cladel, Lettres de France et de Belgique (1881-1889), Studi Francesi, 2010
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- 1.Visualisation des documents. www.archivesdepartementales.cg82.fr.
- 2.Léon Louis Deffoux, Des origines de l'Académie Goncourt, Paris, Mercure de France, 1921, page 5.
- 3.Son acte de décès (n° 111) dans le registre des décès de Sèvres pour l'année 1892.
- 4.Deux siècles d'histoire au Père Lachaise. Mémoire et Documents. 2006. 978-2-914611-48-0.
- 5.Le Temps, 11 avril 1894, page 4 — sur Gallica.
- 6.Notice de l’œuvre sur le site e-monumen.net
- 7.La mort d'Ompdrailles. Le tombeau des lutteurs – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural. monument.heritage.brussels.
- 8.D'après Gérard Oberlé, la nouvelle intitulée « Revanche ! » fut censurée par l'éditeur sous la pression de l'opinion : elle est absente des deux éditions ultérieures mais réapparaît dans celle de 1881.
- 9.Affiche publicitaire du livre, en ligne.
- 10.Il existe une édition non illustrée chez Alphonse Lemerre parue en 1874 ; une autre, illustrée, reprenant les gravures du Lesclide, aux éditions Cinqualbre [ , avec mention in fine « avril 1876 » après « Sur le mole »] ; une chez Georges Charpentier (1881) ne comptant que 12 nouvelles dont « Revanche ».
- 11.Il existe une édition illustrée de 16 eaux-fortes signées Rodolphe Julian (selon Gérard Oberlé in Lire, décembre 2013, ).
- 12.Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 14 mai 2018, vente Pierre Bergé, lot .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- La Vie de Léon Cladel, suivie de Léon Cladel en Belgique. Alphonse Lemerre. 1905.
- Léon Cladel. Notes et souvenirs d'un ami. Librairie de la Revue Socialiste. 1893.
- The Symbolist Movement in Literature. E. P. Dutton & Company. 1919.
- Les Arts et les Lettres. Alphonse Lemerre. 1901.
- Au pays des Lettres. Nouvelle Librairie Nationale. 1922.
- Les Écrivains français devant la guerre de 1870 et la Commune. Colloque du 7 novembre 1970. Armand Colin. 1972.
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Edmond Picard - Léon Cladel, Lettres de France et de Belgique (1881-1889), Studi Francesi, 2010Crossref registry
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The authorities additionally record the heading Leon Cladel. His recorded language was French. He married Julia Mullem. 2 children are recorded: Judith Cladel and Marius-Léon Cladel. Recorded as writer, poet and jurist.
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