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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 18 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:GABRIEL See also:CHARLES See also:VICAIRE (1848-1900)  , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Belfort on the 25th of See also:January 1848 . He served in the See also:campaign of 187o, and then settled in See also:Paris to practise at the See also:bar, which, however, he soon abandoned for literature . His See also:work was twice " crowned " by the See also:Academy, and in 1892 he received the See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . Born in the See also:Vosges, and a Parisian by See also:adoption, See also:Vicaire remained all his See also:life an enthusiastic See also:lover of the See also:country to which his See also:family belonged—La See also:Bresse—spending much of his See also:time at Amberieu . His freshest and best work is his Emaux bressans (1884), a See also:volume of poems full of the gaiety and spirit of the old French chansons . Other volumes followed: Le Livre de la patrie, L'Heure enchantee (1890), A la bonne franquette (1892), Au bois joli (1894) and Le Clos See also:des fees (1897) . Vicaire wrote in collaboration with Jules Truffier two See also:short pieces for the See also:stage, Fleurs d'avril (189o) and La See also:Farce du See also:marl refondu (1845); also the See also:Miracle de See also:Saint See also:Nicolas (1888) . With his friend See also:Henri Beauclair he produced a See also:parody of the Decadents entitled See also:Les Deliquescences and signed Adore Floupette . His fame rests on his Emaux bressans and on his Rabelaisian drinking songs; the religious and See also:fairy poems . charming as they often are, carry simplicity to the See also:verge of affectation . The poet died in Paris, after a See also:long and painful illness, on the 23rd of See also:September 1900 . See Henri See also:Corbel, Un Pate, See also:Gabriel Vicaire (1902) .

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