Léon Hennique
Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 – 25 December 1935) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright.
Biography
Léon Hennique, born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, was the son of the naval infantry officer Agathon Hennique. He became a naturalist novelist and dramatist. Hennique studied painting, but after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 devoted himself to literature. He was a friend of Émile Zola, but broke with him over the Dreyfus Affair. His daughter was the symbolist poet Nicolette Hennique.
He died in Paris on 25 December 1935.[1]
Works
Novels
- La Dévouée (1878)
- L'Accident de M. Hébert (1883)
- Pœuf (1887)
- Un Caractère (1889)
- Minnie Brandon (1899)
Plays
- L'Empereur Dassoucy (1879)
- Pierrot sceptique (1881; with Joris-Karl Huysmans)
- Jacques Damour (1887)
- Esther Brandès (1887)
- La Mort du duc d'Enghien (1888; translated into English by F. Cridland Evans, 1909)
- Amour (1890)
- La Menteuse (1892)
- L'Argent d'autrui (1893)
- Deux Patries (1895)
- La Petite Paroisse (with Alphonse Daudet, 1901)
- Jarnac (1909; with Johannès Gravier)
Notes
References
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- Hennique-Valentin, Nicolette (1959). Mon père Léon Hennique. Paris: Éditions du Dauphin.
Further reading
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- Morgan, O. R. (1962). "Léon Hennique and the Disintegration of Naturalism," Nottingham French Studies, Vol. I, No. 2, pp. 24–33.
- Morgan, O. R. (1966). "The Plays of Leon Hennique. Part I," Nottingham French Studies, Vol. V, No. 2, pp. 89–99.
- Morgan, O. R. (1967). "The Plays of Leon Hennique. Part II," Nottingham French Studies, Vol. VI, No. 1, pp. 19–29.
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