Theuriët

Theuriët, ANDRÉ, French poet and romancer, was born in 1833 at Marly le Roi, near Paris, studied law in Paris, and received in 1857 a place in the office of the minister of finance. That same year he published a striking poem in the Revue des Deux Mondes, which was followed only in 1867 by Le Chemin des Bois, a volume of poems full of the charm of woodland. Later poems were the so-called epic Les Paysans de l'Argonne, 1792 (1871), and Le Bleu et le Noir (1872), styled a poem of real life. But Theuriert is best known by his novels, which are ever touched with melancholy and sometimes recall in their feeling for the poetic sides of nature the subtler touch of George Sand. They include Mademoiselle Guignon (1874), Le Mariage de Gérard, Une Ondine (1875), La Fortune d'Angèle (1876), Raymonde (1877), Le Filleul d'un Marquis (1878), Le Fils Mauvards (1879), Le Sang des Finoel (1879), Tante Aurélie (1884), L'Amoureux de la Préfète (1888), Nos Enfants (1892), La Chanoinesse (1893), Flavie (1895). Theuriert was admitted to the Academy in 1896. See the study by Besson (1890).