Léon Cladel

Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist.

The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface. He then returned to his native district of Quercy in southwestern France, where he produced a series of stories of peasant life in Eral le dompteur (1865), Le Nomm Qouael (1868) and other volumes, similar to the works of Émile Pouvillon.[1]

Returning to Paris he published the two novels which are generally acknowledged as his best work, Le Bouscassié (1869) and La Fête votive de Saint-Bartholomée Porte-Glaive (1872). Une Maudite (1876) was judged dangerous to public morals and cost its author a month's imprisonment. Other works by Cladel are Les Va-nu-pieds (1873), a volume of short stories; N'a-qu'un-oeil (1882), Urbains et ruraux (1884), Gueux de marque (1887), and the posthumous Juive errante (1897). He died in Sèvres on 21 July 1892.[1]

References

  • La Vie de Léon Cladel (Paris, 1905), by his daughter Judith Cladel, containing also an article on Cladel by Edmond Picard, a complete list of his works, and of the critical articles on his work.
  • New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
  • The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1919), Arthur Symons
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cladel, Léon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 418.
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