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Maxime Du Camp | |
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 Maxime Du Camp (between 1850 and 1870) | |
| Born | Maxime Du Camp (1822-02-08)8 February 1822 Paris, France |
| Died | 9 February 1894(1894-02-09) (aged 72) |
| Resting place | Montmartre Cemetery |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and photographer |
| Movement | Realism and Late Romanticism |
Maxime Du Camp (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer.
Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets. Du Camp traveled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company withGustave Flaubert. After his return, Du Camp wrote about his traveling experiences. Flaubert also wrote about his experiences with Maxime.[1][2][3]
In 1851, Du Camp became a founder of theRevue de Paris (suppressed in 1858), in which his friend Flaubert'sMadame Bovary was first published in serialised form in 1856, as well as a frequent contributor to theRevue des deux mondes. In 1853, he became an officer of theLegion of Honour. Serving as a volunteer withGaribaldi in his 1860conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Du Camp recounted his experiences inExpédition des deux Siciles (1861). In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of theEmpire. He was elected a member of theAcadémie française in 1880, mainly, it is said, on account of his history of theCommune, published under the title ofLes Convulsions de Paris (1878–1880).
Du Camp was an early amateur photographer who learned the craft fromGustave Le Gray shortly prior to departing on his 1849–1859 trip to Egypt.[4] His travel books were among the first to be illustrated with photographs.
Du Camp, the most famous traveller of his time, was the dedicatee of the final poem,Le Voyage, written in 1859, from Baudelaire'sLes Fleurs du Mal. Du Camp's 1855 poetry collection,Les Chants Modernes, includes a poem titledLe Voyageur. Baudelaire's original title forLe Voyage wasLes Voyageurs. The original title has obvious echoes of Du Camp’s poem.[5]
Maxime Du Camp died in 1894 and was buried in theCimetière de Montmartre in theMontmartre Quarter of Paris.
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Du Camp authored a valuable 6-volume book on the daily life of Paris,Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions, sa vie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle (1869–1875).[8] He published several works on social questions, one of which, theAuteurs de mon temps, was to be kept sealed in the Bibliothèque Nationale until 1910. HisSouvenirs littéraires (2 vols., 1882–1883)[9] contain much information about contemporary writers, especially Gustave Flaubert, of whom Du Camp was an early and intimate friend. In 1878, he published an account of theParis Commune calledLes Convulsions de Paris, drawing from articles on the subject he had written for theRevue des deux mondes.[10]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Du Camp, Maxime".Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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