Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (ɑ̃dʁe tøʁjɛ; 8 October 1833, Marly-le-Roi

Marly-le-Roi

Marly-le-Roi is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the centre....

 - 23 April 1907) French poet

Poet

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 and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his mother's province of Lorraine

Lorraine (province)

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Theuriet studied law

Law

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 in Paris

Paris

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 and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement in 1886. He published in 1867 the Chemin des bois, a volume of poems, many of which had already appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes

Revue des deux mondes

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; Le bleu et le noir, poèmes de la vie réelle (1874), Nos oiseaux (1886), and other volumes followed.

M. Theuriet gives natural, simple pictures of rustic and especially of woodland life, and Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic....

 compared him to Jaques

As You Like It

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 in the forest of Arden. The best of his novels are those that deal with provincial and country life.
Theuriet received in 1890 the from the French Academy

Académie française

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, of which he became a member in 1896. He died on 23 April 1907, and was succeeded at the Academy by Jean Richepin

Jean Richepin

Jean Richepin , French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an army doctor, was born at Médéa, French Algeria.At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions—first as a...

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