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RICHEPIN, JEAN (1849- )

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RICHEPIN, See also:JEAN (1849- ) , See also:French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an See also:army See also:doctor, was See also:born at See also:Medea (See also:Algeria) on the 4th of See also:February 1849. At school and at the Ecole normale he gave See also:evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, See also:powers, for which he found See also:physical vent in different directions—first as a See also:franc-tireur in the Franco-See also:German See also:War, and afterwards as actor, sailor and See also:stevedore—and an intellectual outlet in the See also:writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected, his erratic but unmistakable See also:talent. A See also:play, L'Etoile, written by him in collaboration with See also:Andre Gill (184o-1885), was produced in 1893; but Richepin was virtually unknown until the publication, in 1876, of a See also:volume of See also:verse entitled Chanson See also:des See also:gueux, when his outspokenness resulted in his being imprisoned and fined for See also:outrage aux See also:mew's. The same quality has characterized his succeeding volumes of verse: See also:Les Caresses (1877), Les Blasphemes (1884), La Mer (1886), See also:Mes paradis (1894), La Bombarde (1899). His novels have See also:developed in See also:style from the morbidity and brutality of Les Meets bizarres (1876), La Glu (1881) and Le Pave (1883) to the more thoughtful See also:psychology of Madame Andre (1878), Sophie See also:Monnier (1884), Cesarine (1888), L'Aime (1893), Grandes amoureuses (1896) and Lagibasse (1899), and the more See also:simple portrayal of See also:life in Miarka (1883), Les Braves Gens (1886), Truandailles (189o), La Miseloque (1892) and Flamboche (1895). His plays, though occasionally marred by his characteristic proneness to violence of thought and See also:language, constitute in many respects his best See also:work. The most notable are Nana See also:Sahib (1883), See also:Monsieur Scapin (1886), Le Filibustier (1888), See also:Par le glaive (1892), Vers la foie (1894), Le Chemineau (1897), Le Chien de garde (1898), Les Truands (1899), See also:Don Quichotte (1905), most of which were produced at the Comedie frangaise. He also wrote Miarka (1905), adapted from his novel, for the See also:music of See also:Alexandre Georges, and Le Mage (1897) for the music of Jules See also:Massenet. His son, Jacques Richepin (b. 188o), the author of La Reine de See also:Tyr (1899), La See also:Cavaliere (1901), See also:Cadet-Roussel (1903) and Falstaff (1904), based on See also:Shakespeare's See also:Henry IV., gave promise of making his See also:mark as a dramatist.

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