Background
Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire was born at Belfort on the 25th of January 1848.
Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire was born at Belfort on the 25th of January 1848.
His work was twice " crowned " by the Academy, and in 1892 he received the cross of the Legion of Honour.
Vicaire was born at Belfort. He served in the campaign of 1870, and then settled in Paris to practise at the bar, which, however, he soon abandoned for literature.
His work was twice "crowned" by the Académie française, and in 1892 he received the cross of the Legion of Honour. Born in the Vosges, and a Parisian by adoption, Vicaire remained all his life an enthusiastic lover of the country to which his family belonged (in Bresse), spending much of his time at Ambérieu-en-Bugey. His freshest and best work is his Emaux bressans (1884), a volume of poems full of the gaiety and spirit of the old French chansons. Other volumes followed: Le Livre de la patrie, L'Heure enchantée (1890), A la bonne franquette (1892), Au bois joli (1894) and Le Clos des fées (1897).
Vicaire died in Paris, after a long and painful illness, on 23 September 1900.