Philéas Lebesgue

A Philéas Lebesgue's bust in Beauvais

Philéas Lebesgue (26 November 1869 in La Neuville-Vault, Picardy, France - 11 October 1958 in the same village) was a French essayist and translator. At once a poet, novelist, essayist, translator and literary critic.

Introduction

Philéas Lebesgue, French writer, editor of the Mercure de France, was born and died in La Neuville-vault where his parents were farmers. He succeeded after their demise. He then leads the head being a farmer in his village and a literary career which will include travel to Portugal, Greece and Yugoslavia, the three countries which he held the literary chronicle the Mercure de France.

After the Latin, English and Greek, studied in college, he learned other languages and wrote his first poems. In 1896 he became editor of the Mercure de France, an international journal He was the chronicler of "Portuguese Letters" and will remain so until 1951. It is one of the few critics to discover and enjoy the great Portuguese poet Pessoa, in 1913. Phileas Lebesgue included at least 16 foreign languages. These are German, English, Danish, Spanish, Galician, Welsh, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian Slovenian and Czech. Must be added the Sanskrit, Old French, and three regional languages in France: Breton, Provençal and Picard spoke to his village. He has worked on magazines in foreign languages, including L'Arte (Coimbra, 1895-1896), Atlantida (Lisbon, 1917), O Mundo (Lisbon, 1915), The Panathenaic (Athens, 1910), Periodikon nios (Piraeus, 1900), The Vos (Madrid, 1923).[1]

From 1926, Phileas Lebesgue chairs the Academy of the ten provinces and the League of provincial writers, with which it attempts to consolidate regional writers, foreign and colonial French.

Poet symbolist in its infancy, Phileas Lebesgue written in verse as well as traditional free verse. He wrote a poem in free verse or traditional, often evoking the landscapes of his country of Bray.[2]

He is a novelist, songwriter, playwright, literary critic, columnist, translator, and mayor of La Neuville-Vault from 1908 to 1947. In his works, he was inspired by nature, history, rural life, his travels and esotericism.[3][4][5]

Philéas Lebesgue and esotericism

The esotericism of Phileas Lebesgue is only poetic as that of his friend Oscar Milosz . In 1911, he joined the French Celtic League, created by the poet Robert Pelletier, to refute the "lies" of the Latin character of France. He agrees to be the « Grand Druide des Gaules », the spiritual authority of the Collège bardique des Gaules founded in 1933 by poet and publisher of music, Jacques Heugel, association that terminates in 1939.

He was already in Breton bard who received the second prize of L'Hermine in 1892.[6]

Société des Amis de Philéas Lebesgue (The association of Friends of Philéas Lebesgue)

It was founded in 1930, Philéas Lebesgue's lifetime, by Camille Belliard and Marius Alphonse Gossez, teachers. The purpose of association is then to make known the life and work of the writer.

Bibliography

37 collections of poetry from 12 to 205 pages, 18 novels, stories and dramas, essays or works of 13 Philology and History, 21 translations (alone or in collaboration, mainly with Manoel gahisto, alias Paul Coolen), including 3 Old French, from Breton 2, 3 Spanish, 3 of the Greek Revival, 7 and 3 of the Portuguese Serbo-Croatian.
Major collections of poems
Mains romans and nouvelles
Some tragedies and dramas
Main tests
Published articles in journals and newspapers
Contributions in over 200 publications, the main one being the Mercure de France
Some translations with critical comments

, 1924

in Picard language

Studies devoted to Philéas Lebesgue

Notes and references

  1. Mémoire de DEA, Faculté des Lettres d'Amiens, 1994, Ed. Société des Amis de Philéas Lebesgue, 1995, 150 p.
  2. Jacques Charpentreau et Georges Jean, Dictionnaire des poètes et de la poésie , coll. al. « folio junior en poésie », Gallimard, 1983
  3. François Beauvy, Dictionnaire de biographie française ( Dictionary of French biography ) ,Paris, Ed. Letouzey et Ané, tome XX, fascicule 115, 2003
  4. François Beauvy, Philéas Lebesgue et ses correspondants en France et dans le monde de 1890 à 1958, Thèse de doctorat (PhD), Ed. Awen, 2004, 674 p.
  5. Pierre Garnier, Philéas Lebesgue, Poète de Picardie, Éklitra, 1967, 43 p.
  6. François Beauvy, Philéas Lebesgue et ses correspondants en France et dans le monde de 1890 à 1958 , Beauvais, Ed. Awen, 2004, p. 43 of the thesis

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