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Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire (January 25, 1848 – September 23, 1900) was a French
Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire (January 25, 1848 – September 23, 1900) was a French poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
.
Life
Vicaire was born atBelfort
Belfort (; archaic german: Beffert/Beffort) is a city in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Northeastern France, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg, approximately from the France–Switzerland border. It is the prefecture of the Terri ...
. He served in the campaign of 1870, and then settled in Paris to practise at the bar, which, however, he soon abandoned for literature.
His work was twice "crowned" by the Académie française, and in 1892 he received the cross of the Legion of Honour
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. Born in the Vosges
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, and a Parisian by adoption, Vicaire remained all his life an enthusiastic lover of the country to which his family belonged (in Bresse
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), spending much of his time at Ambérieu-en-Bugey
Ambérieu-en-Bugey (; frp, Ambèriô) is a commune in the department of Ain, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It is the largest town in the arrondissement of Belley and the capital of the Canton of Ambérieu-en-Bugey which consists ...
. His freshest and best work is his ''Emaux bressans'' (1884), a volume of poems full of the gaiety and spirit of the old French chanson
A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic so ...
s. Other volumes followed: ''Le Livre de la patrie'', ''L'Heure enchantée'' (1890), ''A la bonne franquette'' (1892), ''Au bois joli'' (1894) and ''Le Clos des fées'' (1897).
Vicaire wrote in collaboration with Jules Truffier two short pieces for the stage, ''Fleurs d'avril'' (1890) and ''La Farce du marl refondu'' (1895); also the ''Miracle de Saint Nicolas'' (1888). With his friend Henri Beauclair he produced a parody of the ''Decadents'' entitled ''Les Deliquescences'' and signed Adoré Floupette. His fame rests on his ''Emaux bressans'' and on his Rabelaisian drinking song
A drinking song is a song sung while drinking alcohol. Most drinking songs are folk songs or commercium songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music.
In Germany, drinking songs are ...
s; the religious and fairy poems, charming as they often are, carry simplicity to the verge of affectation. Vicaire died in Paris, after a long and painful illness, on 23 September 1900.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vicaire, Gabriel 1848 births 1900 deaths Writers from Belfort French male poets 19th-century French poets 19th-century French male writers