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Jean François Victor Aicard , born the February 4th 1848 with Toulon and dead the May 13rd 1921 with Paris, is a poet, novelist and dramatic author French.

He is in particular the author of Maurin of the Moors (1908). He is elected member of the French Academy in 1909.

The funds of files of the writer is preserved at the municipal files of Toulon.

Works

; Poetry
  • Rebelled Them and the appeasings (1871)
  • the Poems of Provence (1874)
  • the Song of the children (1876)
  • Miette and Note (1880)
  • the Book of hours of the love (1887)
  • Jesus (1896))
; Novels and new
  • Our-Lady-in Amour (1896). Text on line: * the Heart of a child (1898)
  • Touched (1901)
  • Benjamine (1906)
  • Venus de Milo (1874)
  • Maurin of the Moors (1908)
; Theater
  • Pygmalion (1878)
  • Othello or More of Venice (1881)
  • the Father Lebonnard (1889)

Anecdotes

If one believes Leon Daudet of it, Aicard had such a talent to recite worms which it transformed then each poetry, even poor, in a fugitive masterpiece. Rimbaud had not had to be sensitive to its charm, because one knows the episode where it punctuated word of Cambronne each worms of a poem which Jean Aicard recited. It is however with this poet that it dedicated frightened the .

External bond

  • Site of the Friends of Jean Aicard.

  • Biographical note of the French Academy
  • literary Universe of Jean Aicard travelling to the Netherlands in 1878

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