Gaspard de Cherville
Gaspard Pescou, Marquis de Cherville[lower-alpha 1] (11 December 1819 – 10 May 1898), was a French writer, collaborator of Alexandre Dumas and author of stories and novels about hunting.
Biography
Gaspard de Cherville was born in Chartres into an ancient noble family from the Beauce region. Cherville's father, a former senior cavalry officer, was a knight of Saint-Louis, the Two Sicilies and Saint-Ferdinand and of the Legion of Honour. In 1817 he married Charlotte-Louise de Reviers, daughter of François, vicomte de Reviers and de Mauny, maréchal des logis-chef of the musketeers.
Gaspard got his start in literature fairly late. In the 1850s, he collaborated with Alexandre Dumas on several serial novels, including Black, Le Père la Ruine and Les Louves de Machecoul.[lower-alpha 2] In 1862, he published his first novel under his own name, Les Aventures d'un chien de chasse, soon followed by a second under the pseudonym G. de Morlon, Le Dernier Crime de Jean Hiroux.[lower-alpha 3] He went on to publish novels and stories about hunting, life in the fields and popular education. He edited a luxury publication entitled La Vie à la campagne and published a series of letters under the same title in Le Temps. He also contributed to Sport, Chasse illustrée and Journal des chasseurs, and wrote causeries and short stories for various newspapers.
In 1895, he was awarded the Vitet Prize by the French Academy.[3]
Gaspard de Cherville died in Noisy-le-Roi, Yvelines at the age of 78.
Works
- Les Aventures d'un chien de chasse (1862)
- Le Dernier Crime de Jean Hiroux (1862)
- Histoire d'un trop bon chien (1867)
- Pauvres bêtes et pauvres gens (1869)
- Contes de chasse et de pêche (1878)
- L'Histoire naturelle en action, contes, récits et aventures (1878)
- La Vie à la campagne (1879; with preface by Jules Claretie)
- Les Chiens d'arrêt français et anglais (1881; with Ernest Bellecroix)
- Muguette. La Cage d'or. Le Bossu de Tymeur. La Laide (1882)
- La Vie à la campagne, 2e série : Lettres de mon jardin (1882)
- La Vie à la campagne, 3e série : Fleurs, fruits et légumes, suivi de Calendrier du jardin (1882)
- Le Marchand d'avoine (1883)
- Contes d'un buveur de cidre (1884)
- La Maison de chasse. Montcharmont le braconnier. L'Héritage de Diomède (1885)
- Le Gibier plume. Les oiseaux de chasse, description, mœurs, acclimatation, chasse (1885)
- Le Gibier poil. Les quadrupèdes de la chasse, description, mœurs, acclimatation, chasse (1885)
- Contes d'un coureur des bois (1886)
- Les Mois aux champs (1886)
- Au Village, légendes et croquis rustiques (1887)
- Caporal, histoire d'un chien, 1888
- Les Chiens et les Chats d'Eugène Lambert (1888; with a letter-preface by Alexandre Dumas)
- Bêtes et gens (1888)
- Matador, récit de chasse (1889)
- Le Mousse (1889)
- Les Bêtes en robe de chambre (1891)
- Les Oiseaux chanteurs (1891)
- Les Contes de ma campagne (1891)
- Récits de terroir (1893)
- Nouveaux contes d'un coureur des bois (1893)
- Les Éléphants, état sauvage, domestication (1895)
- Le Monde des champs (1898)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Also spelled Pekow or Pekov.
- ↑ Dumas fils said of this country gentleman: "He was one of the rare collaborators of my father who loved him and were not ungrateful".[1]
- ↑ Cherville took the pseudonym G. de Morlon (de Chennevières), "the name, says Guy Peeters, of a paternal great-grandmother, Marie-Anne Gabrielle de Morlon".[2]
Citations
- ↑ Claretie, Jules (1898). La Vie à Paris. Paris: Charpentier, p. 250.
- ↑ Peeters (2017), p. 308.
- ↑ "Gaspard de Cherville," Académie française.
References
- Peeters, Guy (2017). Gaspard de Cherville, l'autre "nègre" d'Alexandre Dumas. Paris: H. Champion.
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- 1819 births
- 1898 deaths
- 19th-century French male writers
- 19th-century French novelists
- 19th-century pseudonymous writers
- Alexandre Dumas
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- French marquesses
- French non-fiction outdoors writers
- Knights of the Order of Saint Louis
- Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand
- Writers from Chartres
