Henri Eugène Amédée Beauclair (December 21, 1860 at Lisieux

Lisieux

Lisieux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.Lisieux is the capital of the Pays d'Auge area, which is characterised by valleys and hedged farmland...

 – May 11, 1919 in Paris) was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He was the chief editor of the daily newspaper Le Petit Journal

Le Petit Journal

Le Petit Journal was a daily Parisian newspaper published from 1863 to 1944. It was founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud. In its columns were published several serial novels of Émile Gaboriau and of Ponson du Terrail.- Publishing :...

from 1906 to 1914. He worked for a number of publications, including Lutèce, Le Chat noir, Le Procope, journal parlé (1893–1898), and Le Sagittaire, a monthly revue of art and literature(1900–1901).

He had a taste and an unquestionable talent for satire and pastiche. He collaborated with poet Gabriel Vicaire, with whom he wrote the famous Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette

Adoré Floupette

Adoré Floupette is the collective pseudonym of French authors Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire used for their 1885 literary spoof titled Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement....

(1885), a parody of the Decadent movement

Decadent movement

The Decadent movement was a late 19th century artistic and literary movement of Western Europe. It flourished in France, but also had devotees in England and throughout Europe, as well as in the United States.-Overview:...

 in poetry which caused several months of vigorous debate within Parisian literary circles.

Works

Poetry

• L'Eternelle chanson, triolets (1884)
• Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette (1885)
• Les Horizontales (1885)
• Pentecôte (1886)

Novels and essays

• Le Pantalon de Madame Desnou (1886)
• Ohé ! l'Artiste (1887)
• La Ferme à Goron (1888)
• Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan (1890)
• Tapis vert (1897)

External links

• From the Electronic Library of Lisieux: Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette; Les Horizontales ;Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan ;La ferme à Goron; Ville natale; Ohé ! l'Artiste; Le Pantalon de Madame Desnou; L’Éternelle chanson.
• Gallica [image files]: La ferme à Goron; Ohé ! l'Artiste; Une heure chez M. Barrès par un faux Renan; Tapis vert.
• Un chef-d'œuvre du pastiche by G. Delatramblais (1924).