Théodore de Banville

Faullain Théodore de Banville ( born March 14, 1823 in Moulins, † March 13, 1891 in Paris) was a French poet.

Banville published besides several biographical articles various seals and collections of poetry:

• Les Caryatides (1842 );
• Les Stalactites (1846 );
• Les Odelettes (1856 );
• Les Exiles (1866 );
• Nouvelles of funambulesques (1868 );
• Idylles prussiennes 1870-1871 (1872 );
• Trente -six ballades joyeuses (1873 ) and
• Poésies: Occidentales. Rimes dorées etc. (1875 ).

Even as a dramatic poet he published works that have been performed at several Parisian theaters:

• Le feuilleton d' Aristophane (1852 ) and Le cousin du roi (1857 ), both in communion with Philoxène Boyer;

• Le beau Léandre ( in verse, 1856);
• Diane au bois ( heroic comedy in verse, 1863);
• La Pomme (1865 );
• Gringoire (1866 );
• Deldamila (1877 ).

He also wrote the following, mainly shorter novels:

• Les pauvres saltimbanques (1853 );
• La vie d'une comédienne (1855 );
• Esquisses parsiennes (1859 );
• Les Tricks of Nérine (1864 );
• Les camées parisiens ( 1866-73, 3 volumes).

As a theater critic, he worked since 1869 in the National.

Next he published: Petit de poésie française traité (1880 ) and Mes souvenirs. Petites études (1882). Collected his Comédies (1878 ) and appeared Poésies complètes (1879, 3 volumes).

Even in the 21st century experience his works numerous reprints and total expenditure.

Baudelaire Banville in the ' Fleurs du Mal ' a poetic monument to set (No. XVI in the transfer Georges ).