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Henri, vicomte de Bornier (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁidəbɔʁnje] ; 25 December 1825, Lunel – 28 January 1901, Paris) was a French poet and dramatist.
He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comédie-Française accepted a play of his entitled Le Mariage de Luther. [1]
He was given a post in the library of the Arsenal, where he served for half a century, becoming director in 1889. In 1875, his heroic drama in verse, La Fille de Roland was produced at the Théâtre Français. The action of the play turns on the love of Gerald, son of the traitor Ganelon, for the daughter of Roland. The patriotic subject and the nobility of the character of Gerald, who renounces Berthe when he learns his real origin, procured for the piece a great success. The conflict between honor and love and the grandiose sentiment of the play inevitably provoked comparison with Corneille. The piece would indeed be a masterpiece if, as its critics were not slow to point out, the verse had been quite equal to the subject. [1]
Among the numerous other works of de Bornier should be mentioned: Dmitri (1876), libretto of an opera by Victorin de Joncières; and the dramas, Les Noces d'Attila (1880) and Mahomet (1888). The production of this last piece was forbidden in deference to the representations of the Turkish ambassador. In 1890, his play Mahomet on Islamic prophet Muhammad was completely banned by the orders of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. [2] Henri de Bornier was critic of the Nouvelle Revue from 1879 to 1887. His Poésies complètes were published in 1894. He died in January 1901. [3]
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plumeM. de Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy The Fantasticks.
François Élie Jules Lemaître was a French critic and dramatist.
Philippe Quinault, French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.
François Hemsterhuis was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Charles Collé was a French dramatist and songwriter.
Paul Déroulède was a French author and politician, one of the founders of the nationalist League of Patriots.
The chanson de geste is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late 11th and early 12th centuries, shortly before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the troubadours and trouvères, and the earliest verse romances. They reached their highest point of acceptance in the period 1150–1250.
François Edouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français.
François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713) was a French orientalist.
Jean-Louis Laya was a French playwright. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Comédie française, was never represented. In 1789 he produced a plea for religious toleration in the form of a five-act tragedy in verse, Jean Calas. In his next work, the injustice of the disgrace cast on a family by the crime of one of its members formed the theme of Les Dangers de l'opinion (1790).
The title of Duke of Noailles was a French peerage created in 1663 for Anne de Noailles, Count of Ayen.
Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.
Rutebeuf was a French trouvère.
Georges de Porto-Riche was a French dramatist and novelist.
Prince Henri of Orléans was the son of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, and Princess Françoise of Orléans.
Mahomet is a five-act tragedy written in 1736 by French playwright and philosopher Voltaire. It received its debut performance in Lille on 25 April 1741.
Irene is a Neoclassical tragedy written between 1726 and 1749 by Samuel Johnson. It has the distinction of being the work Johnson considered his greatest failure. Since his death, the critical consensus has been that he was right to think so.
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