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Séverin Faust (December 29, 1872, Paris – April 23, 1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. Mauclair was a great admirer of Stéphane Mallarmé, to whom several works were devoted, as well as Maurice Maeterlinck.〔Bertrand Marchal (1998), ''Mallarmé'', Presses Paris Sorbonne ISBN 2-84050-120-1〕 He was initially a poet and novelist. His poetry attracted some attention, and was set to music by Ernest Bloch, Gustave Charpentier, and Ernest Chausson and Nadia Boulanger.〔〔Nadia Boulanger, ''Ten Songs'', Hildegard Publishing Co.〕 His best-known novel is ''Le Soleil des morts'' (1898),〔 a ''roman à clef'' containing fictionalized portraits of leading avant-garde writers, artists, and musicians of the 1890s, that has in retrospect been seen as an important historical document of the ''fin de siècle''. He also wrote several non-fiction books about music including ''Schumann'' (1906), ''The Religion of Music'' (1909), ''The History of European Music from 1850-1914'' (1914) and ''The Heroes of the Orchestra'' (1921) which contributed greatly to French awareness of musical trends in turn-of-the-century Paris.〔R.H. Yeoland (2009) ''La Contribution Litteraire de Camille Mauclair Au Domaine Musical Parisien'', ISBN 0-7734-4860-8〕 As art critic at the ''Mercure de France'', he is noted for his attacks on artists such as Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, while nevertheless not scrupling to express his admiration when these became recognised. Later in life he wrote mainly nonfiction, including travel writing such as ''Normandy'' (1939), biographies of writers, artists, and musicians, and art criticism. In his art criticism, he supported impressionism and symbolism,〔 but disdained Fauvism, famously writing of the style (in a phrase borrowed from English art critic John Ruskin),〔(), from the Tate, retrieved April 12, 2009〕 "a pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public".〔 Retrieved (from enotes.com ) on February 29, 2008.〕 He also provided the libretto for Antoine Mariotte's 3-act 'conte lyrique' ''Nele Dooryn'', premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1940.〔Wolff S. ''Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900-1950).'' André Bonne, Paris, 1953.〕 At the end of his life, he collaborated with the Vichy France-regime, and worked for the ''Grand Magazine illustré de la Race : Revivre''. He was also a cofounder of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre with Lugné-Poe.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camille Mauclair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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