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JEAN RICHEPIN (1849- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:RICHEPIN (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 See also: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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