Jean Aicard

Jean François Victor Aicard ( born February 4, 1848 in Toulon, † May 13, 1921 in Paris) was a French poet, novelist and playwright.

Particularly well known he was by his 1908 published book Maurin des Maures.

Aicard was elected in 1909, was a member of the Académie française in 1901 and made ​​an Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Dar literary estate of the writer is in the archive of the city of Toulon.

Works

• Les Rebellions et les apaisements (1871 )
• Les Poèmes de Provence ( 1874)
• La chanson des enfants (1876 )
• Miette et Score (1880 )
• Le Livre d' heures de l' amour (1887 )
• Roi de Camargue (1890)
• Jésus (1896 )

• Notre -Dame- d'Amour ( 1896). Online text:
• L' Âme d'un enfant (1898 )
• Tatas (1901 )
• Benjamine (1906 )
• La Vénus de Milo (1874 )
• Maurin des Maures (1908 )

• Pygmalion. 1878 ( free after Jean -Jacques Rousseau )
• Othello ou le More de Venise. 1881 ( free after William Shakespeare)
• Le Père Lebonnard (1889 )