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He studied at the École polytechnique with the intention of entering the army, but in 1870 he entered the department of finance. He had a successful official career, was decorated with the Legion of Honour in 1886, and in 1892 was made inspector of fine arts. Armand Silvestre made his entry into literature as a poet, and was reckoned among the Parnassians.
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Works
Armand Silvestre's works were published mainly by Alphonse Lemerre and Gervais Charpentier.
Some of his poems were set in music by Gabriel Fauré, under the form of melodies for one voice and piano (Le Secret, L'Automne...).
His poem Jours Passés was set in music by Léo Delibes under the title Regrets.
Poetry
Rimes neuves et vieilles, with a preface by George Sand (1866) see on Gallica [1]
Les Renaissances (1870)
La Gloire du souvenir, poème d'amour (1872)
Poésies, 1866-1874. Les Amours. La Vie. L'Amour (1875)
La Chanson des heures, poésies nouvelles (1874-1878) (1878)
Le Pays des roses, poésies nouvelles, 1880-1882 (1882)
Le Chemin des étoiles : les Adorations, la Chanson des jours, Musiques d'amour, Dernières tendresses, Poèmes dialogués, 1882-1885 (1885)
Le Dessus du panier : Impressions et souvenirs, Soleils toulousains, Propos de saison, Au pays des rêves (1885)
Poésies, 1872-1878. La Chanson des heures (1887)
Les Ailes d'or, poésies nouvelles (1890)
Roses d'octobre, poésies, 1884-1889 (1890)
Poésies, 1866-1872. Rimes neuves et vieilles. Les Renaissances. La Gloire du souvenir (1892)
L'Or des couchants, poésies nouvelles, 1889-1892 (1892)
Trente Sonnets pour Mademoiselle Bartet (1896)
Les Aurores lointaines, poésies nouvelles, 1892-1895 (1896)
Les Tendresses, poésies nouvelles, 1895-1898 (1898)
Les Fleurs d'hiver, poésies nouvelles, 1898-1900 (1900)
His volumes of verse include:
Rimes neuves et vieilles (1866), to which George Sand wrote a preface
Les Renaissances (1870)
La Chanson des heures (1878)
Le Chemin des étoiles (1885), etc.
The poet was also a contributor to Gil Blas and other Parisian journals, distinguishing himself by the licence he permitted himself. To these "absences" from poetry, as Henri Chantavoine calls them, belong the seven volumes of La Vie pour rire (1881–1883), Contes pantagruéliques et galants (1884), Le Livre des joyeusetés (1884), Gauloiseries nouvelles (1888), &c.
1886: Le Mari d'un jour, three-act opéra comique, with Adolphe d'Ennery, music by Arthur Coquard, Opéra-Comique, 4 February
1887: La Tesi, four-act drama, with Georges Maillard, Bruxelles, Théâtre Molière, 29 October; directed by Paul Alhaiza (source: journal le globe illustré)
1888: Jocelyn, four-act opera, after the poem by Lamartine, with Victor Capoul, music by Benjamin Godard, Bruxelles, Théâtre de la Monnaie, February
1888: Chassé-croisé d'amour, one-act opéra-bouffe, with Édouard Cavailhon, music by Villebichot
1888: La Femme bookmaker, obne-act opérette, with Édouard Cavailhon, music by Germain Laurens
1889: Sapho, February
1890: Le Pilote, opera in 3 acts and 4 tableaux, with A. Gandrey, music by J. Urich, Monte-Carlo, Casino, 29 March
1893: Les Drames sacrés, poème dramatique in 1 prologue and 10 tableaux, in verse, religious pictures after 14th- and 15th-century Italian painters, with music by Gounod with Eugène Morand, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 15 March
1894: Izeyl, drame en 4 actes, avec Eugène Morand, musique de Gabriel Pierné, Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance, 24 January
1894: La Fée du rocher, ballet-pantomime en 2 actes et 6 tableaux, avec Francis Thomé et Jules Chéret, 1894
1895: Salomé, pantomime lyrique, with Meltzer, music by Gabriel Pierné, Théâtre de l'Athénée, 4 March
1897: Tristan de Léonois, drama in 3 acts and 7 tableaux, including 1 prologue, in verse, Comédie-Française, 28 October
1897: Chemin de croix, twelve religious poems after Armand Silvestre, set in music by Alexandre Georges
1899: Messaline, drame lyrique in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with Eugène Morand, music by Isidore de Lara
1901: Charlotte Corday, drame musical in 3 acts, Opéra Populaire, February
1901: Grisélidis, conte lyrique in 3 acts and 1 prologue, with Eugène Morand, after the le mystery presented at the Comédie-Française, music by Jules Massenet, Opéra-Comique, 13 November
1908: Le Chevalier d'Éon, four-act opéra comique, with Henri Cain, music by Rodolphe Berger, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 10 April
Le Chevalier aux fleurs, ballet-pantomime in 12 tableaux, music by André Messager and Raoul Pugno (s. d.)
An account of his varied and somewhat incongruous production is hardly complete without mention of his art criticism. Le Nu au Salon (1888–1892), in five volumes, with numerous illustrations, was followed by other volumes of the same type. He died at Toulouse, February 19, 1901.
