Aristide Bruant

Aristide Bruant ( born May 6, 1851 in Courtenay (Loiret ), † February 10, 1925 ) was a French cabaret singer, writer, comedian and nightclub owner, who by the posters of Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, on which he as man in red scarf and black coat is to be seen, was very well known.

His life

Louis Armand Aristide Bruant left after the death of his father, his hometown already fifteen years to find a job. His path led him to the Parisian Montmartre, where he was staying preferably in the bistros of the working class, in which he also got the opportunity to put his musical talent. Although he came from a middle-class family, he soon took over the coarse language that was spoken to his favorite places and brought them into songs, which tell of the struggles of the poor.

His career

Bruant began performing in café- concerts and developed a singing and comedy performances, which led to contractual appearance in the famous club Le Chat Noir. Dressed in a red sweater, a black velvet jacket, high boots and a long red scarf he was soon under the stage name Aristide Bruant a star of Montmartre. When Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec began to appear in cabarets and clubs, Bruant is befriended one of the first to the painter.

1885 Bruant opened his own Montmartre club, which he called Le Mirliton. Although he hired other artists there, but he did not own vocal performance. The entertainment master was notorious for his insults to the most bourgeois audience for which nevertheless was a big attraction in these events.

Aristide Bruant died in Paris and was buried near his birthplace in the Loiret in the cemetery of Subligny. In Paris it a street was named in honor.

His works

Bruant -known songs include:

  • Nini Peau d' Chien
  • A la Bastille
  • A la Villette
  • Meunier es tu cuckold
  • A Batignolles
  • Serrez Vos rank
  • A la Roquette
  • La chanson des Michetons
  • A Poissy
  • A la Place Maubert
  • Les petits joyeux
  • Belleville Menilmontant
  • La Greviste
  • Le Chat Noir

His Argotwörterbuch

  • L' Argot au XXe siècle. Dictionnaire français - argot, Paris 1901 (457 pages ), 1993 ( introduction by Pierre Merle ); 1905 (470 pages)
  • Aristide Bruant / Léon de Bercy, L' argot au XXe siècle. Edition inversée et du dictionnaire français raisonnée - argot (1901 et 1905), ed. by Denis Delaware Place, Paris 2009

Literature Argotwörterbuch

  • Denis Delaware Place, Bruant et l' argotographie française. " L' au XXe siècle argot " in 1901, Paris 2004 ( foreword by Jean Pruvost )
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