Ernest Charles Guy de Girard, count then marquis de Charnacé (3 May 1825 – 3 March 1909) was a French writer, journalist, agronomist and musicologist. In Anjou, he was called the "hero of Bois-Montbourcher".Souvenirs by Pauline de La Ferronays, p. 146. Notices généalogiques série 8, by Baron de Woëlmont de Brumagne / Athéna.
Biography Originally from a family in Anjou,Land and castle of Charnacé. His house had nothing in common with the Gautiers. As early as 1200, this family owned the land of Charnacé. The land of Charnacé is erected as a marquisate on 31 January 1674. his father Charles-Guy (1800-1884) was a senior officer of the Royal Guard who resigned during the July Revolution. Guy de Charnacé studied at the college of Vendôme. In 1843, he left for Dresden.There he attended Lieutenant Koehler's mathematics courses, who later commanded he Saxon artillery during the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War. He took a taste for music and attended the premieres of the first lyrical works by Richard WagnerRichard Wagner married Cosima, Claire d'Agoult's half sister. who he did not cease fighting as a musician and a poet.Henry Carnoy.
On 8 May 1849, he married in Paris Claire d'Agoult (1830-1912), daughter of Marie d'Agoult (1805-1876)—her nom de plume being Daniel Stern—, at whose literary salon he had become a regular after meeting Honoré de Balzac in Dresden in countess Hanska's salon. For eight years he was an inspector of the Chemins de Fer du Nord. In 1857 he entered journalism and gave a large number of articles on agronomy and zootechnics in the Journal de l'AgricultureFounded by Jean-Augustin Barral. and in La Presse.He successively had Émile de Girardin, Auguste Nefftzer (1856-57), Alphonse Peyrat as editor-in-chief. A pupil of Émile Baudement,Whose posthumous works he published. he was a specialist in agricultural issues and the rural economy.Where he was a progressist He was decorated with the Legion of Honour on 13 August 1864. He was one of the first five founders of the Société des agriculteurs de France.Under the présidency of Amédée de Béhague
He wrote many literary headings and joined Émile de Girardin at La Liberté newspaper for the musical and literary critics.He was of classical tradition in arts and literature. It was at this time (1864) that his duel took place with Gaston de Galliffet, then a colonel. In 1868–1869 he published Portraits de femmes. After the War of 1870-71, he returned to the Bien Public, created by friends of Adolphe Thiers, where he wrote for four years musical and literary criticism.
He came to live at the castle of Bois-Monbourcher in Anjou at ChambellayA land acquired in 1711 by the family of Girard de Charnacé. from 1880 to the death of his mother in 1899. There he wrote his various novels.Novels of manners, novels of character, historical and hunting novels. including Le Baron Vampire,Le Baron Vampire on Gallica an antisemitic publication.Forerunner of La France juive by Édouard Drumont according to Henri Carnoy. He took charge of the literary magazine La Revue angevine.La Revue angevine on Gallica
His son, Daniel de Charnacé (1851Born in Croissy-Beaubourg. – 1942), a former naval officer, then a farmer and a breeder, settled at the Bois-Montbourcher in 1876, with his grandfather, the Marquis Ernest de Charnacé (1800-1884), who had just completed the restoration of the castle and succeeded him as mayor of Chambellay from 1884 to 1942, thus holding the record of longevity to this municipal function.His grandson, Bertrand de Charnacé (1885-1967), will also be mayor of Chambellay from 1942 to 1967 and will be the author, in 1958, of Notes sur la maison de Girard de Charnacé.
His name was given to a steeple chase competition.Prix Guy de Charnacé on Turfomania
Writings 1863: Études d'économie rurale, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, in-12, 301 p. 1864: Études sur les animaux domestiques. Amélioration des races. Consanguinité. Haras., Paris: V. Masson et fils, in-12, VIII-384 p. 1866-1869: Les femmes d'aujourd'hui. Esquisses, Paris: M. Lévy frères, in-18 Read online. 1867: Les Principes de zootechnie de Baudement, in-12, Delagrave. 1868: Les Étoiles du chant... Adelina Patti, Christina Nilsson, Gabrielle Krauss, Paris, Plon, gr. in-8. 1868: Les Mérinos by Émile Baudement, preceded by Considérations générales sur l'espèce ovine by Count Guy de Charnacé, Paris: C. Delagrave, 199 p. : fig.; in-18; series Bibliothèque de l'agriculture published under the direction of J.-A. Barral. 1869: Les Races chevalines en France, Paris: C. Delagrave, In-12, 89 p., fig. 1869: Les Races bovines en France. Éléments de zootechnie., Paris: C. Delagrave, In-12, 98 p., fig. 1869: Discours prononcés à la distribution des prix du Concours agricole du canton de Sablé par M. le vicomte de Charnacé, président du comice, les 6 septembre 1868 et 5 septembre 1869, Sablé: Choisnet, in-8°, 15 p. 1869: Nouveaux Portraits, Paris: M. Lévy frères. 1870: Les Compositeurs français et les théâtres lyriques subventionnés, Paris: , in-8°, 61 p. 1872: Réponse à l'Homme-Femme de M. Alexandre Dumas fils, Paris: E. Lachaud, in-16, 30 p. 1873: Musique et musiciens, critical fragments by Mr. Richard Wagner, translated and annotated, Paris: Pottier de Lalaine, 2 vol. in-12. 1874: Causeries sur mes contemporains... , Paris: É. Dentu, In-12, III-460 p. 1879: Drames mystérieux, Heymann et Perois, 1879. 1881: Une parvenue, Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 225 p.; in-12. 1882: Un homme fatal, Paris: Paul Ollendorff. 1885: Le Baron Vampire, Paris: E. Dentu, in-12, 309 p. 1886: Souvenirs d'une jument de chasse, suivis de : Écoute à Bois Rosé..., Paris : Pairault, in-12, 107 p., fig. 1887: Les Veneurs ennemis, Paris: Pairault, In-12, 230 p., fig. 1887: Vaincu. 1888: Aventures et portraits. 1890: Le Chasseur noir, souvenirs d'une jument de chasse. Écoute à Bois Rosé., Paris: Édouard Dentu, In-16, 245 p. 1890: Sur le Vif, portraits, Paris: A. Savine, In-16, 281 p. 1892: Expiation, suivi de Elles et nous, et de Renée, Paris: A. Savine, in-12, 282 p. 1893: L'Amour et l'argent; [Une confession]; [Coquette], Paris: A. Savine, In-16, 274 p. 1894: Journal d'un amoureux, Paris: L. Grasilier, In-16, 143 p. 1894: R. Wagner jugé par un Allemand, Angers: Lachèze, In-8°, 50 p. 1895: L'Esclave, Paris, P. Ollendorf, 305 p. 1897: Portraits angevins, par l'Ermite de la chaussée Saint-Pierre (G. de Charnacé), Angers: Lachèze, in-8°, 65 p. 1900: Notes d'un philosophe provincial, Paris: Perrin, in-12, XI-295 p. 1902-1906: Hommes et choses du temps présent, Paris: E. Paul, 4 vol. in-12°. 1903: Wagner jugé par Nietzsche [S. l.], paginé 39-4; In-8, excerpt from le Carnet, October–December 1903. 1903: Un ambassadeur de Louis XIII (Charnacé), Paris: édition de la Nouvelle Revue, in-8°, 43 p. 1903: Femmes d'à présent, portraits, Paris: E. Paul, In-12, XXVI-124 p. 1908: Lettres à ma petite-fille, Paris: E. Paul, In-16, 418 p., portr. 1909: Essais de psychologie intime, Paris: Nouvelle Librairie nationale, In-16, 345 p. 1909: Veneurs excentriques : short stories, Paris: Pairault et Cie, 197 p.; 19 cm + 2 photos. Translation 1870: Lettres de Gluck et de Weber publiées par M. L. Nohl... traduites par Guy de Charnacé. Ouvrage orné de portraits et d'autographes,Lettres de Gluck et de Weber published by M. L. Nohl on Gallica Paris: Henry Plon, 279 p. : portr., fac-sim., music; in-8°.
Bibliography Henri Carnoy, Dictionnaire biographique international des écrivains,Dictionnaire biographique international des écrivains on Google.com Paris : Imprimerie de l'armorial français, -1909.
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