Chapitre 1833

Though now best known as a novelist, he began as a poet, and it is not certain that he will not finally be best remembered for his verse. His eyes and his sympathies are for the woods and fields and for the simple toilers whose lives lie close to them. He has instilled into his poems something of the odors of the forest and of the soil.

Works: Le Chemin des bois, 1867 ; les Paysans de l’Argonne, 1792. 1871; le Bleu et le Noir, 1873; le Livre de la Payse, 1882.

For reference: E. Besson, André Theuriet, sa vie et ses oeuvres,