Jean Lorrain#Duel
{{Short description|French poet and novelist}}
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| image = Lorrain, Jean.jpg
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| birth_name = Paul Alexandre Martin Duval
| birth_date = {{birth date|1855|8|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Fécamp, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1906|6|30|1855|8|9|df=y}}
| death_place = Fécamp, France
| resting_place = Cimetière de Fécamp (Fécamp), Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie Region, France
| nationality = French
| occupation = Poet and novelist
| notableworks = Monsieur de Phocas
Princesses d'ivoire et d'ivresse
Histoires de masques
| signature = Jean Lorrain signature.svg
| awards =
}}
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Jean Lorrain (9 August 1855 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime – 30 June 1906), born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school.
Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism and spent much of his time amongst the fashionable artistic circles in France, particularly in the cafés and bars of Montmartre.Philippe Jullian, Montmartre, p.81
He contributed to the satirical weekly Le Courrier français, and wrote a number of collections of verse, including La forêt bleue (1883) and L'ombre ardente (1897). He is also remembered for his Decadent novels and short stories, such as Monsieur de Phocas (1901), Monsieur de Bougrelon (1897), and Histoires des masques (1900), as well as for one of his best stories, Sonyeuse, which he linked to portraits exhibited by Antonio de La Gándara in 1893. He also wrote the libretto to Pierre de Bréville's opera Éros vainqueur (1910).
Manuel Orazi illustrated his novella Ma petite ville in 1989.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kb.nl/en/themes/koopman-collection/ma-petite-ville-le-miracle-de-bretagne-un-veuvage-damour|title=Ma petite ville ; Le miracle de Bretagne ; Un veuvage d'amour {{!}} Koninklijke Bibliotheek|website=www.kb.nl|language=en|access-date=2018-04-22}}
Lorrain was openly gay, often citing ancient Greece as noble heritage for homosexuality,George L. Mosse The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity, p.88 and became colloquially known as "The Ambassador from Sodom".George E.Haggerty, Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures, p.547
Due to tubercular symptoms, he started using morphine, and then moved on to drinking ether, a habit he shared with Guy de Maupassant. Under the influence of ether Lorrain wrote several horror stories, but eventually the substance gave him stomach ulcers and health problems.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ToAKKQ03yNAC&dq=%22French+decadents+Guy+de+Maupassant+and%2C+particularly%2C+Jean+Lorrain%22&pg=PT177 Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century]
Works
= Poetry =
- Le Sang des dieux (1882)
- La Forêt bleue (1882)
- Modernités (1885)
- Les Griseries (1887)
- L'Ombre ardente (1897){{cite book|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N081610 |title=L'Ombre ardente|date=1897|edition= online text|author=Lorrain, Jean|publisher=gallica.bnf.fr}}
= Novels =
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- Les Lépillier (1885 et 1908)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N064501 Les Lépillier (1885 et 1908)], online text
- Très russe (1886)
- Un démoniaque (1895)
- Monsieur de Bougrelon (1897)
- La Dame turque (1898)
- Monsieur de Phocas (1901)[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k82689b?rk=407727;2 Monsieur de Phocas (1901)], online text
- Le Vice errant (1901)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N080905 Le Vice errant (1901)], online text
- La Maison Philibert (1904), adaptée par José de Bérys, Noré Brunel et Georges Normandy et représentée sur la scène du Moulin de la Chanson à Paris en février 1932.
- Madame Monpalou (1906)
- Ellen (1906)
- Le Tétreau Bosc (1906), Le Livre Moderne Illustré n° 354 (1941)
- L'Aryenne (1907)[https://archive.org/stream/laryenneparjeanl00lorr#page/n7/mode/2up L'Aryenne (1907)], online text
- Maison pour dames (1908)[https://archive.org/stream/maisonpourdames00lorr#page/n7/mode/2up Maison pour dames (1908)], online text
- Hélie, garçon d'hôtel (1908)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N076319 Hélie, garçon d'hôtel (1908)], online text
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= Novellas =
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- Sonyeuse (1891)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N081135 Sonyeuse (1891)], online text
- Buveurs d'âmes (1893)
- La Princesse sous verre (1896)
- Un Femme Par Jour (1896)
- Âmes d'automne (1897)
- Loreley (1897)
- Contes pour lire à la chandelle (1897)
- Ma petite ville (1898)
- Princesses d'Italie (1898)
- Histoires de masques (1900)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N081599 Histoires de masques (1900)], online text
- Princesses d'ivoire et d'ivresse (1902)
- Vingt femmes (1903)
- Quelques hommes (1903)
- La Mandragore (1903)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N081593 La Mandragore (1903)], online text
- Fards et poisons (1904)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N085888 Fards et poisons (1904)], online text
- Propos d'âmes simples (1904)
- L'École des vieilles femmes (1905)
- Le Crime des riches (1906)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N081152 Le Crime des riches (1906)], online text
- Narkiss (1909)
- Les Pelléastres (1910)
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= Stage =
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- Viviane, conte en 1 acte (1885)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N081611 Viviane, conte en 1 acte (1885)], online text
- Très russe, pièce en 3 actes, avec Oscar Méténier, Paris, Théâtre d'Application (La Bodinière), 3 mai 1893
- Yanthis, comédie en 4 actes, en vers (1894)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N054894 Yanthis, comédie en 4 actes, en vers (1894)], online text
- Prométhée, avec André-Ferdinand Hérold (1900)
- Neigilde (1902)
- Clair de lune, drame en un acte et deux tableaux, avec Fabrice Delphi, Paris, Concert de l'Époque, 17 décembre 1903
- Deux heures du matin, quartier Marbeuf, avec Gustave Coquiot (1904)
- 1904: Sainte-Roulette de Jean Lorrain et Gustave Coquiot, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- Hôtel de l'Ouest, chambre 22, avec Gustave Coquiot (1905)
- Théâtre: Brocéliandre, Yanthis, La Mandragore, Ennoïa (1906)
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= Chronicles and travel writing =
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- Dans l'oratoire (1888)
- La Petite Classe (1895)
- Sensations et souvenirs (1895)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N082500 Sensations et souvenirs (1895)], online text
- Une femme par jour (1896)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N200962 Une femme par jour (1896)], online text
- Poussières de Paris (1896–1902)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N083288 Poussières de Paris (1896–1902)], online text
- Madame Baringhel (1899)
- Heures d'Afrique (1899)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N074884 Heures d'Afrique (1899)], online text
- Heures de Corse (1905)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N074883 Heures de Corse (1905)], online text
- La Ville empoisonnée (1930)
- Femmes de 1900 (1932)
- Voyages, (2009), Les Promeneurs solitaires, préface de Sébastien Paré.
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= Translations into English =
- Monsieur de Phocas, Dedalus Books (1994) {{ISBN|978-1873982150}}
- Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker (translation of Sensations et souvenirs, with additional material, by Brian Stableford), Snuggly Books (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-943813-02-5}}
- The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (includes translations of Sonyeuse, La Mandragore, La Princesse sous verre, with additional material, by Brian Stableford), Snuggly Books (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-943813-09-4}}
- [http://spurleditions.com/monsieur-de-bougrelon Monsieur de Bougrelon], translated and with an afterword by Eva Richter, Spurl Editions (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-943679-03-4}}
Notes
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External links
- Poems by Jean Lorrain (in French): https://web.archive.org/web/20080423034855/http://poesie.webnet.fr/auteurs/lorrain.html
- Short stories by Jean Lorrain (in French): https://web.archive.org/web/20030216165829/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bib_lisieux/lorrain.htm
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061019213658/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/lorrain_j.html Biography of Jean Lorrain] on glbtq.com
- [http://spurleditions.com/monsieur-de-bougrelon/ Monsieur de Bougrelon] by Jean Lorrain
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