Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé

The Viscount Marie- Eugène- Melchior de Vogüé ( born February 24, 1848 in Nice, † March 24, 1910 in Paris) was a French diplomat and man of letters.

Life

De Vogüé grew on the Château de Gourdan in the municipality of Saint -Clair in Annonay on. He fought voluntarily in the German -Prussian War (1870 /71) and was wounded at the Battle of Sedan. After his recovery, he began a diplomatic career as an embassy attaché in Constantinople Opel under his uncle Melchior de Vogüé. Then he was Secretary of the Embassy in Cairo and St. Petersburg, where he married in the chapel of Tsarist Winter Palace Alexandra Annenkov on January 25, 1878 daughter of General Nicholas Annenkov and sister of Mikhail Nikolayevich Annenkov, the builder of the Trans Caspian railway. The couple had three sons.

De Vogüé left the diplomatic service in 1882 and began to write. As a diplomat, he had published orientales with Syrie, Palestine, Mount Athos (1876 ) and Histoires (1880 ), two important books before 1886 his main work Le Roman russe wrote, the time the image of the intellectual Russian upper class coined in France and the Russia's literary work of the 19th century known in France made ​​. His novels Le Maître de la Mer and Les Morts qui parlent were subsequently included in the Anthology Collection Nelson. He also translated numerous Russian writer in the French language and made Dostoevsky a larger French public known. With only 40 years, the Vicomte was elected in 1888 to the Académie française. De Vogüé wrote regularly for the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal of débats.

From 1893 to 1898 he ventured as a deputy for the department of Ardèche in the French Chamber of Deputies a trip to the policy. His priorities in this period were the support of the Catholic social teaching of Leo XIII. in the French Republic and the French colonial policy of third parties.

Works

• Syrie, Palestine, Mont Athos, 1876
• Vangehli, 1877
• Boulacq et Saqquarah, 1879
• Chez les Pharaons ', 1879
• Histoires orientales, 1880
• Les Portraits du siècle, 1883
• Le fils de Pierre le Grand, 1884
• Mazeppa, 1884
• Histoires d' hiver, 1885
• Le Roman russe, 1886
• Souvenirs et visions, 1887
• Le portrait du Louvre, 1888
• Remarques sur l'exposition du centenaire ', 1889
• Le manteau de Joseph Olenine, 1890
• Spectacles contemporains, 1891

• Regards historiques et littéraires, 1892
• Heures d' histoire, 1892
• Cœurs russes, 1893
• Notes sur le Bas -Vivarais, 1893
• Cœurs russes, 1894
• Devant le siècle, 1896
• Jean d' Agrève, 1897
• Histoire et poésie, 1898
• Les morts qui parlent, 1899
• Le rappel des ombres, 1900
• Pages d' Histoire, 1902
• Le Maître de la mer, 1903
• Sous l'horizon, 1904
• Maxim Gorky, 1905
• Les Routes, 1910

1932 published Félix de Vogüé with Journal du vicomte Eugène- Melchior de Vogüé: Paris, Saint- Pétersbourg 1877-1883 (Les Cahiers Verts, Paris) his father's diary.