LOUIS

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• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

GABRIEL

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• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES

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• LOUIS GABRIEL CHARLES VICAIRE (1848-1900)

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