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Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 – 25 December 1935) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright.

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Life

Léon Hennique was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, the son of the naval infantry officer Agathon Hennique. He studied painting, but after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 devoted himself to literature and became a naturalistic novelist and dramatist. He was a friend of Émile Zola, but broke with him over the Dreyfus Affair.

He died in Paris on 25 December 1935[1] and is buried at Ribemont.[2]

His daughter was the symbolist poet Nicolette Hennique.

Works

Novels

• La Dévouée (1878)
• L'Accident de M. Hébert (1883)
• Pœuf (1887)
• Un Caractère (1889)
• Minnie Brandon (1899)

Novellas

• Deux Nouvelles (1881) [In English translation: Two Novellas: Francine Cloarec's Funeral & Benjamin Rozes; Sunny Lou Publishing, ISBN 978-1-95539-204-4, 2021.]

Plays

• L'Empereur Dassoucy (1879)
• Pierrot sceptique (with Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1881)
• Jacques Damour (1887)
• Esther Brandès (1887)
• La Mort du duc d'Enghien (1888)
• Amour (1890)
• La Menteuse (1892)
• L'Argent d'autrui (1893)
• Deux Patries (1895)
• La Petite Paroisse (with Alphonse Daudet, 1895)
• Jarnac (with Johannès Gravier, 1909)

References

Sources

External links

• Works by or about Léon Hennique at Internet Archive

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