Philéas Lebesgue

Philéas Lebesgue (26 November 1869 in La Neuville-Vault, Picardy, France - 11 October 1958 in the same village) was a French essayist and translator. At once a poet, novelist, essayist, translator and literary critic.

Philéas Lebesgue, French writer, editor of the Mercure de France, was born and died in La Neuville-vault where his parents were farmers. He succeeded after their demise.He then leads the head being a farmer in his village and aliterary career which will include travel to Portugal, Greece and Yugoslavia, the three countries which he held the literary chronicle the Mercure de France.

After the Latin, English and Greek, studied in college, he learned other languages and wrote his first poems. In 1896 he became editor of the Mercure de France, aninternational journalHe was the chronicler of "Portuguese Letters" and will remain so until 1951.It is one of the few critics to discover and enjoy the great Portuguese poet Pessoa, in 1913.Phileas Lebesgue included at least 16 foreign languages. These are German, English, Danish, Spanish, Galician, Welsh, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian Slovenian and Czech. Must be added the Sanskrit, Old French, and three regional languages in France: Breton, Provençal and Picard spoke to his village.He has worked on magazines in foreign languages, including L'Arte (Coimbra, 1895-1896), Atlantida (Lisbon, 1917), O Mundo (Lisbon, 1915), The Panathenaic (Athens, 1910), Periodikon nios (Piraeus, 1900), The Vos (Madrid, 1923).

From 1926, Phileas Lebesgue chairs the Academy of the ten provinces and the League of provincial writers, with which it attempts to consolidate regional writers, foreign and colonial French.

Poet symbolist in its infancy, Phileas Lebesgue written in verse as well as traditional free verse. He wrote a poem in free verse or traditional, often evoking the landscapes of his country of Bray.

He is a novelist, songwriter, playwright, literary critic, columnist, translator, and mayor of La Neuville-Vault from 1908 to 1947.In his works, he was inspired by nature, history, rural life, his travels and esotericism.

The esotericism of Phileas Lebesgue is only poetic as that of his friend Oscar Milosz .In 1911, he joined the French Celtic League, created by the poet Robert Pelletier, to refute the "lies" of the Latin character of France. He agrees to be the « Grand Druide des Gaules »,the spiritual authority of the Collège bardique des Gaules founded in 1933 by poet and publisher of music, Jacques Heugel, association that terminates in 1939.

He was already in Breton bard who received the second prize of L'Hermine in 1892.

It was founded in 1930, Philéas Lebesgue's lifetime, by Camille Belliard and Marius Alphonse Gossez, teachers.The purpose of association is then to make known the life and work of the writer.

• Gahisto (P.-M.), Au cœur des provinces - Philéas Lebesgue, Roubaix, Ed. du Beffroi, 1908, 80 p.
• Gossez (A.-M.), Les Célébrités d'aujourd'hui - Philéas Lebesgue, Paris, Ed. Sansot, 1924, 32 p.
• Striegler (Helmut), "Inaugural-Dissertation" : Philéas Lebesgue, ein Dichter der Pikardie, Université de Leipzig, 1934 (Étude publiée en 1935 en Allemagne).
• Roger Berrou, Philéas Lebesgue le Paysan de l'Univers, dans le tome 1 des Œuvres poétiques, 1950, 131 p., réédité par la Société des Amis de Philéas Lebesgue, 1996.
• Pierre Garnier [fr], Philéas Lebesgue, poète de Picardie, coll. Éklitra,imp. Sinet, Grandvilliers,43 p., 1967
• Gisèle Le Crocq, Philéas Lebesgue et la Grèce, mémoire de Diplôme, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines d'Aix-en-Provence, 1967-1968, 163 p. - Réédité dans le Bulletin des Amis de Philéas Lebesgue (n° 38 de 2004 au n° 42 de 2008).
• André Camus, Jean Dubillet et Pierre Garnier, Le centenaire de Philéas Lebesgue, Eklitra, Amiens, 1969, 35 p.
• François Beauvy, Le Paysage dans l'œuvre poétique de Philéas Lebesgue, mémoire de DEA, Université de Picardie -Jules Verne, 1994, publié en 1995 par la Société des Amis de Philéas Lebesgue, 150 pages.
• Anton Figueroa, Lecturas alleas - Sobre das relacions con outras literaturas, Santiago de Compostele, Ed. Gotelo blanco, 1996, 155 p. (Publié en Espagne, traite de la correspondance de Philéas Lebesgue avec les écrivains de langue galicienne).
• Claudio Veiga, Um Brasilianista francês - Philéas Lebesgue, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Topbooks, 1998, 185 p. (Publié au Brésil).
• François Beauvy, rubrique sur Philéas Lebesgue, dans le Dictionnaire de biographie française, Paris, Ed. Letouzey et Ané, tome XX, fascicule 115, 2003.
• François Beauvy, Philéas Lebesgue et ses correspondants en France et dans le monde, thèse de doctorat, Université de Paris X - Nanterre, 2003, publiée en 2004, Beauvais, Ed. Awen, 674 p. et 16 p. hors-texte de Philéas Lebesgue et ses confrères.