Jules Renard biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Jules Renard

Author Name:

Jules Renard

Born As:

Pierre-Jules Renard

Other Names:

Born:

22 Feb 1864

Died:

22 May 1910




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Writer and poet                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

Crime de village - 1888
Sourires pincés - 1890
L'écornifleur - 1892
La lanterne sourde - 1893
Coquecigrues - 1893
Deux fables sans morale - 1893
Le coureur de filles - 1894
Histoires naturelles - 1894 - text
Poil de carotte - 1894 - text
Le vigneron dans sa vigne - 1894
La maîtresse - 1896
Bucoliques - 1898
Les Philippe - 1907
Patrie - 1907
Mots d'écrit - 1908
Ragotte - 1909
Nos frères farouches - 1909
Causeries - 1910
L'œil clair - 1913
Les cloportes - 1919

Plays:

La demande - 1895
Le plaisir de rompre - 1897
Le pain de ménage - 1898
Poil de Carotte - 1900
Monsieur Vernet - 1903
La Bigote - 1909
Huit jours à la campagne - 1912

Journal:
Journal, 1887-1910 - 1925                          
Mother Anna-Rose Colin
Father François Renard, four children. Pierre-Jules being the youngest
Wife Marie Morneau                          
                          
An active supporter of pacifism and anticlericalism as in La Bigote.
The British writer Somerset Maugham was influenced to publish his own well-known journals by the example of Renard.
American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino based his 1994 work Red the Fiend on Renard's Poil de Carotte.
The memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of by British novelist Julian Barnes is an homage to Jules Renard - 2008.