Nina de Callias
Nina de Callias, ( born 12 July 1843 in Lyon, Rhône region, † July 22, 1884 in Vanves, Hauts -de -Seine département ) Nina de Villard, born Anne -Marie Gaillardet, was a French salonière and writer.
Life
Anne -Marie Gaillardet was the daughter of a wealthy lawyer in Lyon. In her parents' home, she met Count Hector de Callias know who wrote as a journalist, among others, for the newspaper Le Figaro. Shortly after getting to know her, she married this and went with him to Paris.
In Paris she met, now called Nina de Callias and after her divorce, Nina de Villard, soon Apollonie Sabatier know who introduced her to her salon in the Rue Frochot into society. There she also met the writer Charles Cros, whose mistress she became. In his letters he called her occasionally " la reine des fichus ". About Cros she came into the circle of Parnassian and Alphonse Lemerre took some of her poems to the later became famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain.
As in 1870, the political situation deteriorated and the German - French war threatened to break out, Nina de Callias went with her mother to Geneva. Only after the peace treaty of 10 May 1871 returned to Paris. In addition to Charles Cros she entertained love relationship with the writers Edmond Bazire and Auguste de Villiers de L' Isle- Adam, the wrong as in her salon as the authors Léon Dierx, Germain Nouveau, Roul Ponchon, Maurice Talmeyr, Henri Rochefort, Raoul Ponchon, Anatole France, Léon Valade, Camille Pelletan, Jean Richepin, Paul Verlaine, Charles Leconte de Lisle, Maurice Rollinat and Stéphane Mallarmé. There were also the musicians Ernest Cabaner and François Coppée, the painter Jean -Louis Forain, Édouard Manet and Marcellin Desboutin, and various actresses, among whom Henriette Hauser, the mistress of the Dutch crown prince was. Nina de Callias, who also composed himself, was an excellent musician and played the piano in her salon on a regular basis.
Prolonged alcohol abuse brought a collapse in 1884, from which they could not recover. On July 22, 1884 Nina de Callias died 14 days after her 41st birthday in a clinic in Vanves.
Works (selection)
- La Duchesse Diane. Saynète en vers. 1882
- Feuillets parisiens. Poésies. 1885