Dried Leon

Jean Leon Dried , born with Ancenis the April 3rd 1848 and died with Nice on May 5th 1914, is a French literary man, specialist in the Romanticism, at the origin of the illustrated Revue of Brittany and Anjou .

Born in a family from humble days laborer of old stock, it makes its studies with the college Saint-Joseph d' Ancenis where it is shown very gifted for the traditional letters.

It assembles to Paris in 1869 and starts a career in the literature and poetry. After a little difficult beginnings, he becomes the secretary of the senator Jules Simon, named Minister for the State education in 1876.

Returned with the literature, Leon Séché publishes in 1879 " small the quadrant of Joachim of Bellay" and in 1881 " Tales and Figures of my Pays". In 1889, it publishes a novel which had as a framework its birthplace: " Pink Epoudry".

In 1890, it founds and directs the review of the " Provinces of Ouest". Author of many studies of history of the romanticism, he is twice prize winner of the French Academy. Among about fifteen works which it makes appear, one can retain in particular his studies on Lamartine, Vigny, Musset and Holy-Beuve.

It was honoured by the town of Ancenis, which raised a monument in 1925 to him and gave its name to a boulevard.

Works

  • claws of the lion (1871)

  • the origin of the legal settlement (1894)
  • Hortense Allart de Méritens (1908)
  • last Jansenists, since the ruin of Port-Royal until our days , 3 volumes, 1891.
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