Auguste Vacquerie

Auguste Vacquerie ( born November 19, 1819 in Villequier, Dépt Seine- Inférieure; . † February 19, 1895 in Paris) was a French writer, journalist and photographer.

Life

Auguste Vacquerie came from a shipping family from Normandy. His school days he attended the Lycée Corneille in Rouen and then in Paris at the Lycée Charlemagne. Classmates was, inter alia, the later writers Paul Meurice.

Even in his school days raved Vacquerie for Victor Hugo and his literary works. This enthusiasm was even more significant than his brother Charles was married on February 15, 1843 Léopoldine, a daughter of Victor Hugo. However, Léopoldine and Charles already crashed on 4 September of the same year during a boat trip on the Seine at Villequier.

When Victor Hugo the coup d'état on 2 December 1851 Napoleon III. publicly condemned, he was banished and went into exile. Here, he was accompanied by Auguste Vacquerie and settled with Hugo down only on the British Channel Island of Jersey; later on Guernsey. Only in 1869 could Vacquerie return to France.

Auguste Vacquerie died on 19 February 1895 in Paris and found his final resting place in the cemetery of his native city, next to his brother Charles and his wife, Leopoldine.

Works (selection)

• Demi- teintes. 1845
• L' enfer de spirit. 1840

• Jean Baudry. Comédie en quatre actes. 1863
• Proserpine. Drame lyrique. 1887 ( music by Camille Saint- Saëns )
• Tragaldabas. Drame bouffon. 1848 (music by Eugen d' Albert)

• Sophocles: Antigone (along with Paul Meurice )