Max Buchon
{{Short description|French writer (1818–1869)}}
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| birth_name = Joseph Maximilien Buchon
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1818|05|8}}
| birth_place = Salins-les-Bains France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1869|12|14|1818|05|8}}
| death_place = Salins-les-Bains FR
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| years_active = 1834–1869
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Joseph Maximilien Buchon also known as Max Buchon (May 8, 1818–December 14, 1869) was a French poet, novelist and translator. He was from Salins-les-Bains and for a time he lived in Switzerland. He founded the newspaper, La Démocratie Salinoise.
Early life
In 1818, we was born in Salins-les-Bains France. His parents were Jean-Baptiste Buchon and Jeanne Marie née Pasteur.{{cite web |last1=Vuilleumier |first1=Marc |title=Max Buchon |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/it/articles/008928/2004-10-25/ |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |publisher=Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences |access-date=21 January 2024 |archive-date=2023-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502101555/https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/it/articles/008928/2004-10-25/ |url-status=live }} His father was a soldier in Napoleon's army. In the 1830s he became friends with artist Gustave Courbet and the two were close for the rest of Buchon's life.{{cite book |last1=Clark |first1=T. J. |last2=Clark |first2=Timothy J. |title=Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution |date=1 January 1999 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Irvine, California |isbn=978-0-520-21745-4 |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJsVZ3Kgoy8C&dq=Max+Buchon&pg=PA111 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=en |archive-date=23 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123011150/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Image_of_the_People/XJsVZ3Kgoy8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Max+Buchon&pg=PA111&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }} From 1834 to 1837 he studied at the College of Saint Michael in Fribourg Switzerland.{{cite web |title=Max Buchon Poet and committed Writer |url=https://www.juramusees.fr/decouverte/max-buchon/ |website=Juramusees |publisher=Jura Departmental Council |access-date=10 June 2023 |archive-date=10 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610150322/https://www.juramusees.fr/decouverte/max-buchon/ |url-status=live }}
Career
While in college he befriended politician Alexandre Daguet. Buchon was a follower of the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier but he could not convince Daguet that Fournier's ideas had validity. Buchon devoted himself to literature. He became radicalized by the French Revolution of 1848. Eight days after the revolution he founded the newspaper, La Démocratie Salinoise. On May 2, 1848 Buchon became the Deputy Mayor of salins.
In 1851 after the Napoleon III French coup d'état of 1851 he fled to Switzerland.{{cite book |title=Van Gogh Museum Journal |date=1999 |publisher=Van Gogh Museum |location=Amsterdam |page=93 |language=en}} In Jura Switzerland he wrote articles for the newspaper Rouge and for other liberal newspapers in Salins, Switzerland. In 1856 he returned to settle in his home town of Salins.{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=James Henry |title=Courbet A&i |date=23 May 1997 |publisher=Phaidon Press |location=Ann Arbor Michigan |isbn=978-0-7148-3180-0 |language=en}} He was able to return home because his friend Gustave Courbet asked that Buchon be pardoned. He introduced the works of Swiss Novelist Jeremias Gotthelf to France by translating his writings.
Legacy
When he died in Salins on December 14, 1869, Gustave Courbet was at his bedside. After his death in 1869 French poet Victor Hugo wrote: "He leaves as a poet a work and as a citizen an example." He was interred in Salins cemetery and on his tomb there is a bust of Buchon which was created by Max Claudet.{{cite web |title=Buchon Joseph Maximilien |url=https://cths.fr/an/savant.php?id=121880# |website=CTHS-La France savante |publisher=Historical and Scientific Works Committee |access-date=22 January 2024}}
Books
- {{cite book |last1=Buchon |first1=Joseph Maximilien |title=Romans: Le Matachin |date=1877 |publisher=Sandoz et Fischbacher |location=Paris, France |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRYYMQAACAAJ |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=fr}}
- {{cite book |last1=Buchon |first1=Max |title=Le Matachin, scènes de la vie Franc-Comtoise |date=1869 |language=fr}}
- {{cite book |last1=Buchon |first1=Max |title=Noëls et chants populaires de la Franche-Comté |date=1863 |publisher=Billet et Duvernois |location=Salins}}
- Chants Populaires de La Franche-Comta
- {{cite book |last1=Buchon |first1=Max |title=Nouvelles Bernoises}}
- {{cite book |last1=Buchon |first1=Max |title=Le Matachin |date=1877 |publisher=Sandoz et Fischbacher |location=Paris, France |language=fr}}
- {{cite book |last1=Buchon |first1=Max |title=Scènes franc-comtoises |date=1858 |publisher=Meline, Cans & Cie |location=Waterloo, Belgium |language=fr}}
References
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Category:19th-century French writers