JOSEPH

See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

ALBERT

See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

ALEXANDRE

See also:

• JOSEPH ALBERT ALEXANDRE GLATIGNY (1839-1873)

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