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Re: Broken friendship with Aristide Hignard?

From: Karol van Bastelaar <k.bastelaar~at~wxs.nl>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:53:41 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Peter,
Costello says that the critic Marcel Moré has written that Hignard seems to
disappear out of Vernes life from that moment. It seems there was an
unfriendly remark of Verne in the register of their hotel in Dal about a
spelling mistake Hignard made there.

Yours,
Karol van Bastelaar

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Harold <haroldmania~at~yahoo.se>
To: <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Broken friendship with Aristide Hignard?


> Hello!
>
> I am sad I can't remember exactly my source, but I
> think I read in the biography by Lottman (or Costello,
> my second guess) that Jules Verne and his friend
> Aristide Hignard split-up in Copenhagen on their
> journey home from Scandinavia in 1861. Hignard wanted
> to stay in Copenhagen to prepare his version of
> "Hamlet", but Lottman also indicate that Hignard and
> Verne had a kind of argument, or at least that their
> friendship was cancelled, and to proof that; there are
> no furthermore co-operations between the authour and
> the composer.
>
> I wonder if this is really true? Both grow up in
> Nantes and have been friends for many years. Hignard
> became very successful himself and was moving from
> Paris later, to the southern France if my informations
> are not wrong. But what was the reason for the
> split-up of their friendship?
>
> Yesterday, I was reading the bibliography of Verne by
> Dumas, and found this:
>
> "Les clairons de l'armée", written by Jules Verne 1870
> and with music composed by Aristide Hignard. It is
> nine years after the history of Copenhagen. Why should
> Hignard make music to the lyrics of Verne if they
> wasn't friends anymore? It doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Oh, by the way. I hope to go to Amiens next monday or
> thuesday. I have tried to get in touch by Le Maison
> Jules Verne by e-mail, but without any reply. Can
> someone confirm to me that the museum is open next
> week? It is not very often I can make these trips (I
> drive from Stockholm) so it would be very nice to see
> this museum as I am at a final stage for my swedish
> biography.
>
> Thank you dear friends!
>
> Best regards
> Peter Harold
Received on Mon 27 Sep 2004 - 11:43:49 IST

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