- Jean Aicard
Jean François Victor Aicard (
February 4 ,1848 -May 13 ,1921 ) was a Frenchpoet ,dramatist andnovelist .He was born in
Toulon . His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with "Les Jeunes Croyances", followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at theMarseille theatre.His poems include: "Les Rebellions et les apaisements" (1871); "Poèmes de Provence" (1874), and "La Chanson de l'enfant" (1876), both of which were crowned by the Academy; "Miette et Noré" (1880), a Provencal idyll; "Le Livre d'heures de l'amour" (1887); "Jésus" (1896). Of his plays the most successful was "Le Père Lebonnard" (1890), which was originally produced at the
Theatre Libre . Among his other works are the novels, "Le Roi de Camargue" (1890), "L'Ame d'un enfant" (1898) and "Tata" (1901), "Benjamine" (1906) and "La Vénus de Milo" (1874); an account of the discovery of the statue from unpublished documents.He was elected a member of the
Académie française in 1909.References
*1911
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