BORNIER, HENRI, VICOMTE DE (1825-1901)

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BORNIER, HENRI, VICOMTE DE (1825-1901)

French

poet and dramatist, was born at Lunel (

Herault

HERAULT

) on the 25th of December 1825. He came to Paris in 1845 with the

object

OBJECT

of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comedie Francaise accepted a play of his entitled Le Mariage de Luther. He was given a post in the library of the

Arsenal

ARSENAL

, where he served for half a

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

, becoming director in 1889. In 1875 was produced at the Theatre Francais his heroic drama in verse, La Fille de Roland. The action of the play turns on the love of Gerald, son of the traitor Ganelon, for the daughter of Roland. The patriotic subject and the

nobility

NOBILITY

of the

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

of Gerald, who renounces Berthe when he learns his real origin, procured for the piece a

great

GREAT

success. The conflict between honour and love and the grandiose sentiment of the play inevitably provoked comparison with Corneille. The piece would indeed be a masterpiece if, as its critics were not slow to point out, the verse had been quite equal to the subject. Among the numerous other works of M. de
Bornier should be mentioned: Dimitri (1876), libretto of an opera by M. V. de Joncieres; and the dramas, Les Noces d'

Attila

ATTILA (d. 453)

(188o) and Makomet (1888). The production of this last piece was forbidden in deference to the representations of the Turkish

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

. Henri de Bornier was critic of the Nouvelle Revue from 1879 to 1887. His Poesies completes were published in 1894. He died in January 1901.

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