Antoinette Quarré

Antoinette Quarré
Quarré ca. 1840
Born
Antoinette Célinie Quarré

(1813-01-16)January 16, 1813
Recey-sur-Ource, France
DiedNovember 25, 1847(1847-11-25) (aged 34)
Dijon, France
Resting place
Péjoces Cemetery
Occupationpoet

Antoinette Quarré (January 16, 1813 – November 25, 1847) was a French poet.

Biography

Antoinette Célinie Quarré was born on January 16, 1813, in Recey-sur-Ource, France.[1] Her parents were Cécile Quarré and an unknown father.

Though of fragile health, she worked as a laundress in Dijon. Legend has it that she learned to read from Voltaire's Zaire. Educated by a scholar, M. de Belloguet, she turned to poetry and published several essays in verse and prose (notably in the Journal des Demoiselles), as well as a eulogy for Princess Marie d’Orléans, which earned her, in 1839, a mention from the Société des lettres et des arts de Seine-et-Oise. She sent her verses to Alphonse de Lamartine,[2] whom she admired. He replied to her on August 24, 1838, with a poem titled "À une jeune fille poète " (To a Young Poetess), which he later included in his "Recueillements poétiques" (Poetic Reflections).[3] Quarré responded to this poem with another poem, "Réponse à M. de Lamartine" (Reply to Mr. de Lamartine). Quarré's friends encouraged her to publish her first collection, which appeared in 1843 and attracted considerable attention.

Death and legacy

Quarré's tomb

Of frail constitution, she died (of heart enlargement) on November 25, 1847, in Dijon.[4] She is buried in the Péjoces Cemetery.

In her portrait of Antoinette Quarré in Tour de France, Flora Tristan comes across as openly hostile toward Quarré.[a]

Xavier Privas, a Lyon-based and later Paris-based goguettier, lists Quarré among the famous goguettières alongside Élisa Fleury and Élie Deleschaux of Paris, Reine Garde of Aix-en-Provence, and Rose Harel of Lisieux.[6]

Selected works

  • À Hégésippe Moreau, an elegy submitted to the Académie des Jeux Floraux competition, 1840
  • Poésies d'Antoinette Quarré, Dijon, 1843

Notes

  1. ↑ Flora Tristan notably criticizes Antoinette Quarré here for her physical ugliness, which, in her view, necessarily reflects a similar inner ugliness. Since Flora Tristan presents herself, by contrast, as a moral—and thus also physical—model, one might wonder whether this is not simply an expression of jealousy, perhaps stemming from the poetic exchanges between Antoinette Quarré and Lamartine.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or (ed.). "Acte de naissance d'Antoinette Quarré". Registre d'état-civil de la commune de Recey-sur-Ource (1801-1828), cote FRAD021EC 519/005 [Civil registry of the commune of Recey-sur-Ource (1801–1828), reference FRAD021EC 519/005] (in French). pp. 313–14.
  2. ↑ Séché, Alphonse (1908). Louis Michaud (ed.). Les Muses françaises - Anthologie des femmes-poètes (1200 à 1891) [Les Muses françaises - Anthology of Women Poets (1200 to 1891)] (in French). Paris. p. 320.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ À une jeune fille poète, via bnf.fr
  4. ↑ Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or (ed.). "Acte de décès d'Antoinette Quarré". Registre des décès de la ville de Dijon (1er février 1847-31 décembre 1847), cote 5 MI 9 R 217 [Death register of the city of Dijon (February 1, 1847–December 31, 1847), reference 5 MI 9 R 217] (in French). p. 180.
  5. ↑ Tour de France de Flora Tristan
  6. ↑ Privas, Xavier, "La Goguette, in La Rampe, 5th edition, no. 140, 13 April 1919, pg. 56.
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