Auguste Brizeux

Heather Williams

Ed. by Nigel Harkness, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

Born 12 Sep 1803
Died 3 May 1858

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Active in France

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Poet

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Brizeux's Works

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Auguste Brizieux was born in Lorient on the south coast of Brittany in 1803. His father was a naval surgeon who died when Auguste was just eight, and from 1811 to 1816 the young boy was raised by his uncle, a priest at Arzano in western Brittany. He attended schools at Vannes and Arras before pursuing legal studies in Paris from 1824, where he led something of a bohemian life, mixing with artists and fellow Bretons such as La Villemarqué and Le Gonidec. Following some minor publications – a play called

Racine

, written jointly with

P. Busoni, and an anonymously published biography of Madame de La Vallière (both 1829) – Auguste Brizeux came to prominence in 1831, when his hugely successful volume of poetry

Marie

catapulted Brittany onto the Parisian literary scene. With this volume,…

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Citation: Williams, Heather. "Auguste Brizeux". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 December 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13954, accessed 21 November 2024.]