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BELGIQUE. VERLANT Ernest (1862-1924).
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BELGIQUE. VERLANT Ernest (1862-1924).
Autograph manuscript of his diary, 1890-1894| 353 pages in folio, bound in a wedge-shaped, midnight-blue, half-grief volume. A
very interesting document on literary, artistic, political and social life in Brussels in the early
1890's. A
Belgian journalist, writer and art critic, Ernest Verlant became friends with young Belgian poets and participated in the adventure of La Jeune Belgique. He was a journalist at the Journal de Bruxelles and, from 1891 to 1899, bureau chief at the Ministry of Justice, before moving in 1899 to the Fine Arts Department, where his pronounced interest in art called for
him.
This diary began on February 3, 1890, and was kept until 1894. Verlant records performances (opera, theatre), conferences (which he attends, and his own lectures), exhibitions, meetings, readings, dinners and banquets, political echoes, court cases, travels, his activity as a journalist and writer, etc., inserting numerous
press
clippings
.
Iwan GILKIN, Valère GILLE, Albert GIRAUD, Georges RODENBACH, Émile VERHAEREN, Maurice MAETERLINCK, Edmond PICARD, Grégoire LE ROY, Henry de GROUX, Georges EEKHOUD, Gustave KAHN, Camille LEMONNIER, Eugène DEMOLDER, etc. are often mentioned, as well as many personalities from the Brussels world, from the aristocracy, politics, journalism, the arts, etc. One will note in particular the pages devoted to the conference of Stéphane MALLARMÉ on Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (February 11, 1890)| to the visit of the Salon des XX (February 18, 1890)| to the Georges NIETER affair| to the adventure La Jeune Belgique| to the letters of Félicien ROPS to Demolder| to the Sâr PÉLADAN and to the Rose+Croix| to the stay of Paul VERLAINE in Brussels (February 1893)| to the EEKHOUD banquet (October 1893), etc.
T
he
autograph manuscript of his diary kept during the war and the German occupation in 1915, published in 1920 under the title L'OEil s
Autograph manuscript of his diary, 1890-1894| 353 pages in folio, bound in a wedge-shaped, midnight-blue, half-grief volume. A
very interesting document on literary, artistic, political and social life in Brussels in the early
1890's. A
Belgian journalist, writer and art critic, Ernest Verlant became friends with young Belgian poets and participated in the adventure of La Jeune Belgique. He was a journalist at the Journal de Bruxelles and, from 1891 to 1899, bureau chief at the Ministry of Justice, before moving in 1899 to the Fine Arts Department, where his pronounced interest in art called for
him.
This diary began on February 3, 1890, and was kept until 1894. Verlant records performances (opera, theatre), conferences (which he attends, and his own lectures), exhibitions, meetings, readings, dinners and banquets, political echoes, court cases, travels, his activity as a journalist and writer, etc., inserting numerous
press
clippings
.
Iwan GILKIN, Valère GILLE, Albert GIRAUD, Georges RODENBACH, Émile VERHAEREN, Maurice MAETERLINCK, Edmond PICARD, Grégoire LE ROY, Henry de GROUX, Georges EEKHOUD, Gustave KAHN, Camille LEMONNIER, Eugène DEMOLDER, etc. are often mentioned, as well as many personalities from the Brussels world, from the aristocracy, politics, journalism, the arts, etc. One will note in particular the pages devoted to the conference of Stéphane MALLARMÉ on Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (February 11, 1890)| to the visit of the Salon des XX (February 18, 1890)| to the Georges NIETER affair| to the adventure La Jeune Belgique| to the letters of Félicien ROPS to Demolder| to the Sâr PÉLADAN and to the Rose+Croix| to the stay of Paul VERLAINE in Brussels (February 1893)| to the EEKHOUD banquet (October 1893), etc.
T
he
autograph manuscript of his diary kept during the war and the German occupation in 1915, published in 1920 under the title L'OEil s