Jules Janin

Jules Janin

Jules Gabriel Janin (February 16, 1804 - June 19, 1874), was a French writer and critic.

Biography

Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He involved himself in journalism from an early date, and worked on the "Figaro" and the "Quotidienne", among others, until in 1830 he became dramatic critic of the "Journal des Débats". Long before this, however, he had made a literary reputation for himself, publishing novels such as "L'âne mort et la Femme guillotinée" ("The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman") (1829). "La Confession" (1830) followed, and then in "Barnave" (1831), he attacked the Orléans family.

From the day, however, when Janin became the theatrical critic of the "Débats", though he continued to write books, he was most notable in France as a dramatic critic.

He wrote the text for the song "Chant des chemins de fer" by Hector Berlioz, a fellow critic at the "Débats".

After many years of "feuilleton" writing he collected some of his articles in the work called "Histoire de la littérature dramatique en France (1853-1858)." In 1865 he made his first attempt upon the Academy, but was not successful till five years later. Meanwhile he had not been content with his feuilletons, written persistently about all manner of things. No one was more in request with the Paris publishers for prefaces, letterpress to illustrated books and suchlike.

He travelled (picking up in one of his journeys a country house at Lucca in a lottery), and wrote accounts of his travels; he wrote numerous tales and novels, and composed many other works, including "Fin d'un monde et du neveu de Rameau" (1861), in which, under the guise of a sequel to Diderot's work, he showed his familiarity with the late 18th century. He married in 1841. In the early part of his career he had many quarrels, notably one with Felix Pyat (1810-1889), whom he prosecuted successfully for defamation of character. For the most part his work was improvisation, noted for its light and vivid style. His "Œuvres choisies" (12 vols., 1875-1878) were edited by A de la Fitzelière.

A study on Janin with a bibliography was published by Auguste Piédagnel in 1874. See also Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du lundi", ii. and v., and Gustave Planche, "Portraits littéraires".

Works

*"The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman" (English translation ed. by Terry Hale, Gargoyle, 1993)

References

External links

*gutenberg author| id=Jules+Janin | name=Jules Janin


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