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Judith Gautier (25 August 1845, Paris – 26 December 1917) was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi.
Judith Gautier, born on August 25, 1845, in Paris, was a French poet, novelist, playwright, and translator who worked with the Chinese and Japanese languages.
May 21, 2018 · Judith Gautier (1845–1917) is best known as muse to Victor Hugo and Richard Wagner. More recently, critics have started crediting her for bringing Asian culture to Parnassian-era Paris in her 1867 translations of Chinese poetry, Le Livre de jade.
A distinguished Sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese texts, Judith Gautier (1845–1917) was at the center of French literary and artistic circles.
An Orientalist and France's first female academician, Judith Gautier was the elder daughter of the poet and critic Théophile Gautier and his mistress Ernesta Grisi, an Italian contralto. Théophile had earlier fallen passionately in love with Ernesta's sister, ballerina Carlotta Grisi , who at age 22 had danced in Giselle for which he had ...
This literary biography details the life of Judith Gautier (1845-1917). Gautier, daughter of celebrated author Th-ophile Gautier and opera star Ernesta Grisi, carved a special niche in the...
Judith Gautier’s 1887 novel La Conquête du Paradis compensates for France’s 1870 defeat by reminiscing about a more glorious episode in French history. Gautier gives a glowing account of the conquest of India by Dupleix and Bussy in the eighteenth century.
