Maxime Du Camp
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Maxime Du Camp | |
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 Maxime Du Camp (between 1850 and 1870) | |
| Born | Maxime Du Camp 8 February 1822 Paris, France |
| Died | 9 February 1894(aged 72) |
| Resting place | Montmartre Cemetery |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and photographer |
| Movement | Realismand Late Romanticism |
Maxime Du Camp(8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer.
Biography
[edit]Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets. Du Camp traveled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company withGustave Flaubert.After his return, Du Camp wrote about his traveling experiences. Flaubert also wrote about his experiences with Maxime.[1][2][3]
In 1851, Du Camp became a founder of theRevue de Paris(suppressed in 1858), in which his friend Flaubert'sMadame Bovarywas first published in serialised form in 1856, as well as a frequent contributor to theRevue des deux mondes.In 1853, he became an officer of theLegion of Honour.Serving as a volunteer withGaribaldiin his 1860conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies,Du Camp recounted his experiences inExpédition des deux Siciles(1861). In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of theEmpire.He was elected a member of theAcadémie françaisein 1880, mainly, it is said, on account of his history of theCommune,published under the title ofLes Convulsions de Paris(1878–1880).
Du Camp was an early amateur photographer who learned the craft fromGustave Le Grayshortly prior to departing on his 1849–1859 trip to Egypt.[4]His travel books were among the first to be illustrated with photographs.
Du Camp, the most famous traveller of his time, was the dedicatee of the final poem,Le Voyage,written in 1859, from Baudelaire'sLes Fleurs du Mal.Du Camp's 1855 poetry collection,Les Chants Modernes,includes a poem titledLe Voyageur.Baudelaire's original title forLe VoyagewasLes Voyageurs.The original title has obvious echoes of Du C[5]amp's poem.
Maxime Du Camp died in 1894 and was buried in theCimetière de Montmartrein theMontmartre Quarterof Paris.
Works
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- Chants modernes(1855)
- Convictions(1858)
Works on travel:
- Souvenirs et paysages d'orient(1848)
- Egypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie(1852)
Works of art criticism:
- Les Salons de 1857, 1859, 1861
Novels:
- L'Homme au bracelet d'or(1862)
- Une histoire d'amour(1889)
Literary studies:
- Théophile Gautier(1890)[6][7]
Du Camp authored a valuable 6-volume book on the daily life of Paris,Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions, sa vie dans la seconde moitié du XIXesiècle(1869–1875).[8]He published several works on social questions, one of which, theAuteurs de mon temps,was to be kept sealed in the Bibliothèque Nationale until 1910. HisSouvenirs littéraires(2 vols., 1882–1883)[9]contain much information about contemporary writers, especially Gustave Flaubert, of whom Du Camp was an early and intimate friend. In 1878, he published an account of theParis CommunecalledLes Convulsions de Paris,drawing from articles on the subject he had written for theRevue des deux mondes.[10]
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- ^Francine Du Plessix Gray (1995).Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet—Pioneer, Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse.Simon and Schuster. p. 192.ISBN0-684-80453-0.Retrieved7 August2010.
- ^Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmüller (1980).The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830–1857.Harvard University Press. p.112.ISBN0-674-52636-8.Retrieved7 August2010.
- ^Deborah Hayden (2003).Pox: genius, madness, and the mysteries of syphilis.Basic Books. p.138.ISBN0-465-02881-0.Retrieved7 August2010.
- ^"Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History".Metropolitan Museum of Art.Retrieved31 March2011.
- ^Alexandra Smith, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Towards Poetics of Exile, Ars Interpres, No. 2
- ^Du Camp, Maxime (1890).Théophile Gautier.Les grands écrivains français. Paris: Hachette.
- ^"Review ofThéophile Gautierby Maxime Du Camp, translated by J. E. Gordon, preface by Andrew Lang ".The Academy.44(1121): 362–363. 28 October 1893.
- ^Du Camp, Maxime.Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions, sa vie dans la seconde moitié du XIXesiècle(deuxième ed.). Paris: Hachette; 6 vols., 1873–1875
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^Du Camp, Maxime.Souvenirs littéraires.Paris: Hachette; 2 vols., 1882–1883
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^"Du Camp's 'Convulsions of Paris'".The Nation. 8 March 1878. pp. 210–211.Retrieved9 January2023.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Du Camp, Maxime".Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
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- Maxime du Camp's literary recollections,1893, by Maxime du Camp at theState Library of New South Wales
- Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle,1949, by Maxime du Camp at theState Library of New South Wales
- Mémoires d'un suicidé,1855, by Maxime du Camp at theState Library of New South Wales
- Works by or about Maxime Du Campat theInternet Archive
- Works by Maxime Du CampatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)
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- 1822 births
- 1894 deaths
- Photographers from Paris
- Members of the Académie Française
- French travel writers
- French literary critics
- French poets
- 19th-century French photographers
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Burials at Montmartre Cemetery
- 19th-century French journalists
- French male journalists
- 19th-century French novelists
- French male poets
- French male novelists
- 19th-century poets
- 19th-century French memoirists
- People of the Paris Commune
- Photographers in Palestine (region)