Emmanuel Delbousquet

Emmanuel-Bernard-Philipe Frédéric Delbousquet (27 April 1874 – 20 May 1909) French poet and novelist, was born on 27 April 1874 in Sos, Lot-et-Garonne, on the borders of the great Landes de Gascogne and Armagnac, where he died on 20 May 1909. He also collaborated with La France de Bordeaux, Télégramme de Toulouse, l'A me Latine, la Revue Provinciale, la Revue Méridionale, l’Ermitage, and the Midi Fédéral, a weekly newspaper that had all major southern writers as collaborators, including Laurent Tailhade, Emile Pouvillen, Louis-Xavier de Ricard and Jean Carrère.

Aware of a southern poetry renaissance, the young poet also united around him the enthusiasm of Joseph Bosc, Jean Viollis, Maurice Magre. Back in Sos, he tried an autobiographical novel entitled Le Reflet, written in 1901, but at the last moment he refused to publish this work, considering it too clumsy and bombastic. Preferring to translate his land, he developed a script under a more colorful and impressionistic palette. While mindful about realism, he attempted to revitalize occitan as a language of origin and remembrance, under the leadership of his friend and master Antonin Perbosc, by interspersing his romantic work with gascon terms and expressions. However, it was necessary to wait for the posthumous publication of his collection of poems entitled Capbat Lana by Antonin Perbosc in 1924, for one to see the birth of the félibre Delbousquet.

Literary works En les Landes, preface by René Ghil, Melle, 1892 Eglogues, 1897 Le Mazareilh, Paul Ollendorff - Paris, 1901 Margot, Société provinciale d’édition - Toulouse, 1903 L'Écarteur, romance, Ollendorff - Paris, 1904. Reed. David Chabas, Capbreton, 1974 Miguette de Cante-Cigale, romance landais, Paris, 1908 Le Chant de la race, Poems 1893-1907, Paris, 1908 Contes de la lande gasconne, Paris, 1923 Capbat la Lana, dans l'estampèl de Antonin Perbósc, 1924 En Gascogne, Saint-Sever-sur-Adour, 1929 Le Renard, story collection published in La France de Bordeaux from 1905 to 1907, Garein (40420, Labrit) : Ed. Ultreïa, 1990 Œuvres complètes (Complete Works) Nérac : Amis du Vieux Nérac (Friends of Old Nerac), 5 vol., 2000-2002

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