Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

GLATIGNY, JOSEPH ALBERT ALEXANDRE (18...

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 114 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

GLATIGNY, See also:JOSEPH See also:ALBERT See also:ALEXANDRE (1839-1873) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Lillebonne (See also:Seine Inferieure) on the 21st of May 1839. His See also:father, who was a See also:carpenter and after-wards a gendarme, removed in 1844 to See also:Bernay, where Albert received an elementary See also:education. Soon after leaving school he was apprenticed to a printer at See also:Pont Audemer, where he produced a three-See also:act See also:play at the See also:local See also:theatre. He then joined a travelling See also:company of actors to whom he acted as prompter. Inspired primarily by the study of See also:Theodore de See also:Banville, he published his Vignes folles in 1857; his best collection of lyrics, See also:Les Fleches d'or, appeared in 1864; and a third See also:volume, Gilles et pasquins, in 1872. After Glatigny settled in See also:Paris he improvised at cafe concerts and wrote several one-act plays. On an expedition to See also:Corsica with a travelling company he was on one occasion arrested and put in irons for a See also:week through being mistaken by the See also:police for a notorious criminal. His See also:marriage with Emma Dennie brought him See also:great happiness, but the hard-See also:ships of his See also:life. weakened his See also:health and he died at Sevres on the 16th of See also:April 1873. See Catulle Mendes, Legende du Parnasse contemporain (1884), and Glatigny, drame funambulesque (1906).

End of Article: GLATIGNY, JOSEPH ALBERT ALEXANDRE (1839-1873)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
GLASTONBURY 		[next]
GLATZ (Slay. Kladsko)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries