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Léon Hennique
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Léon Hennique was a French novelist and playwright who belonged to the literary school of naturalism led by Émile Zola. Léon Hennique was born in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) on november 4th 1850 and died in Paris on the 25th of december 1935. His father was brigadier-general Privat François Agathon Hennique and he had two brothers, Privat Agathon Benjamin Arthur Hennique, who became a commissioned officer in the French Navy and Agathon Nicolas Ernest Auguste Hennique.

Although he studied painting, after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, he dedicated himself to writing. He first became publicly associated with the naturalists when he published a brilliant article defending Emile Zola´s novel “The Tavern” (1877). He distanced himself from Emile Zola over the Dreyfus affair. Together with Alphonse Daudet, he was named executor of Edmond de Goncourt´s will, and was one of the founding members of the ten member Academie Goncourt, which elected him President from 1907 to 1912. Hennique occupied the sixth seat of the Academy from 1900 till his death in 1935.

Nowadays perhaps his best known work is the short story The Affair of the Great 7. A French soldier is severely wounded in the local brothel but manages to stagger back to his campsite where he bleeds to death. This triggers a savage riot leading to the death of civilians, fellow soldiers and officers. The story was included in Les Soirées de Médan ("Evenings at Médan") anthology of six stories published in 1880 together with Guy de Maupassant´s masterpiece Boule de Suif (“Greaseball”) and other naturalist stories by Emile Zola, J.-K. Huysmans, Henry Céard, and Paul Alexis.

Novels
•	La Dévouée : les héros modernes (1878) Texte en ligne

•	Les hauts faits de Monsieurde Ponthau (1880).

•	L'Accident de M. Hébert (1883)

•	Les funerailles de Francine Cloarec (1881)

•	Pœuf (1887)

•	Un caractère, roman spirite (1889) Texte en ligne

Plays
•	L'Empereur Dassoucy, comédie en 3 actes, avec Georges Godde, Paris, Théâtre de Cluny, 2 mars 1879.

•	Pierrot sceptique, pantomime, avec Joris-Karl Huysmans (1881). Texte en ligne

•	Jacques Damour, pièce en un acte tirée de la nouvelle d'Émile Zola, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 22 septembre 1887. •	Esther Brandès, pièce en 3 actes (1887)

•	La Mort du duc d'Enghien, en trois tableaux, Paris, Théâtre-libre, 10 décembre 1888. Texte en ligne

•	Amour, drame historique (1890)

•	La Menteuse, pièce en 3 actes, avec Alphonse Daudet, Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase, 4 février 1892

•	L'Argent d'autrui, comédie en 5 actes, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 9 février 1893.

•	Deux patries, drame en 5 tableaux, dont un prologue, Paris, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 16 mars 1895.

•	Jarnac, drame historique en 5 actes, avec Johannès Gravier, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 17 novembre 1909.