Firmin Boissin
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| Born | 17 December 1835 Vernon, Kingdom of France |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Ardèche, France |
| Education | University of Montpellier |
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| Relatives | Louis Vielfaure (cousin) |
Firmin Boissin (17 December 1835 – 13 July 1893) was a French journalist and writer.
Biography
Firmin Boissin was born in Vernon, Ardèche. He studied at the minor seminary in Aubenas and the seminary in Viviers. After graduating in literature from the University of Montpellier, he taught grammar in Cavaillon and Avignon, before spending some time in Spain, where he earned a living as a scrivener.
He was then employed at the Library of the Arsenal in Paris (whose curator-administrator at the time was Paul-Mathieu Laurent), where he wrote articles for magazines and newspapers and published his first works under the pseudonym Simon Brugal (the surname of his maternal grandmother).
In 1871, he became editor of the Messager de Toulouse. Although most of his career was spent in Toulouse, he remained attached to his native region, the Vivarais, about which he wrote several historical novels, the best known of which is Jan de la Lune. He also had a career as a literary critic.
In 1887, he was elected to the 38th seat of the maintainers at the Academy of the Floral Games.
He was also a member of the Order of the Rose Cross. Prior of Toulouse and Commander of the Order, he welcomed Adrien Péladan, a homeopathic physician and brother of Joséphin Péladan, into its ranks in 1858.[1]
Founded in 1893, the year of his death, the Revue du Vivarais nevertheless counted him among its contributors.
Suffering from eye problems, Firmin Boissin returned to the Ardèche, where he died in 1893 at the age of 58.
See also
Works
- Opinion d'un catholique sur les idées de Madame Aubray (1867)
- Nos prédicateurs (Portraits et silhouettes) (1868)
- Études artistiques: Salon de 1868 (1868)
- L'œuvre d'une libre croyante (1868)
- Des étrennes du point de vue symbolique (1869)
- Visionnaires et illuminés (1869)
- Restif de la Bretonne (1875)
- La révolution d'après M. Taine (1878)
- Le Vivarais et le Dauphiné aux Jeux floraux de Toulouse (1878)
- Frédéric Mistral et les Félibres (1879)
- Le Roman contemporain (1868-1878) (1879)
- La Jacquerie dans le Vivarais de 1789 à 1793 (1883; under the pen name Simon Brugal)
- Un épisode de la Révolution dans le Bas-Vivarais (1883)
- Les Camps de Jalès (1885)
- Jan de la Lune (1887)
- Lou reveilhet de Jan de la luno (1887)
- Le paysan dans la littérature contemporaine (1888)
- Le Schisme constitutionnel dans l'Ardèche (1889; under the pen name Simon Brugal)
- Excentriques Disparus (1890)
Notes
- ↑ Laurant, Jean-Pierre (1990). Les Péladan dossier. Lausanne: Éd. l'Age d'Homme, p. 49.
References
- Blaunac, Yvonne de (1987). Firmin Boissin: Écrivain et journaliste, 1835-1893. Rochemaure: S. Sudre/Morges: Y. Rosso.
- Churton, Tobias (2016). Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.
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