{{Short description|French poet (1848–1900)}} [[File:Gabriel Vicaire, Jardin du Luxembourg 11 October 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|Marble bust of Vicaire in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, by Jean Antoine Injalbert]] '''Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire''' (January 25, 1848 – September 23, 1900) was a French poet.

==Life== Vicaire was born at Belfort. He served in the campaign of 1870, and then settled in Paris to practise at the bar, which, however, he soon abandoned for literature.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=17}}

His work was twice "crowned" by the Académie française, and in 1892 he received the cross of the Legion of Honour. Born in the Vosges, and a Parisian by adoption, Vicaire remained all his life an enthusiastic lover of the country to which his family belonged (in Bresse), spending much of his time at Ambérieu-en-Bugey. His freshest and best work is his ''Emaux bressans'' (1884), a volume of poems full of the gaiety and spirit of the old French chansons. Other volumes followed: ''Le Livre de la patrie'', ''L'Heure enchantée'' (1890), ''A la bonne franquette'' (1892), ''Au bois joli'' (1894) and ''Le Clos des fées'' (1897).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=17}}

Vicaire wrote in collaboration with Jules Truffier two short pieces for the stage, ''Fleurs d'avril'' (1890) and ''La Farce du marl refondu'' (1895); also the ''Miracle de Saint Nicolas'' (1888). With his friend Henri Beauclair he produced a parody of the ''Decadents'' entitled ''Les Deliquescences'' and signed Adoré Floupette. His fame rests on his ''Emaux bressans'' and on his Rabelaisian drinking songs; the religious and fairy poems, charming as they often are, carry simplicity to the verge of affectation. Vicaire died in Paris, after a long and painful illness, on 23 September 1900.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=17–18}}

==References== {{reflist}} '''Attribution:''' *{{EB1911|wstitle =Vicaire, Louis Gabriel Charles|volume=28|pages=17–18}}

==External links== {{Wikisource|fr|Gabriel Vicaire}} *{{Commons category-inline|Gabriel Vicaire}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vicaire, Gabriel}} Category:1848 births Category:1900 deaths Category:Writers from Belfort Category:French male poets Category:19th-century French poets Category:19th-century French male writers