{{Short description|French journalist and poet (1868–1942)}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugues Delorme | image = Hugues_Delorme.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Georges Amédée Armand François-Thiébost | birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|04|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Avize, Marne, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|05|20|1868|04|10}} | death_place = Paris | other_names = | occupation =Poet, comedian, playwright and journalist | known_for = }} '''Hugues Delorme''' ({{IPA|fr|yɡ dəlɔʁm}}; 10 April 1868 – 20 May 1942) was a French poet, comedian, playwright and journalist.

==Life==

Hugues Delorme was born on 10 April 1868 at Avize in the department of Marne with the name of Georges Thiebost. He first lived in Rouen where he worked as a journalist for several years before moving to Paris. From 1896 he frequented the cabarets of Montmartre and became a poet, humorist, playwright and actor. He was well known at ''Le Chat Noir'' cabaret.{{sfn|DELORME Hugues: Père-Lachaise}} He joined ''Gardénia'', a theatrical and artistic circle founded by Paul Fabre.{{sfn|Garneau|2008|p=86}}

Hugues Delorme was very tall and slender, and was nicknamed ''La Voltige''. He participated with Paul Delmet, Gaston Montoya, Jacques Ferny and Marcel Legay in creating popular or sentimental songs that were mainly sung in the cabarets of Montmartre. Delorme was an editor of the journal ''Le Courrier français''. He wrote two books about cartoonists, one about Georges Goursat (Sem) and the other about Carlègle (pseudonym of Charles Émile Egli). These two books were published in Paris in 1939.{{sfn|Flers|1922}}

Delorme also wrote numerous plays, one-act pieces, reviews and some comedies and novels. He works were performed at neighborhood theaters and at café-concerts such as ''Le Coup de minuit''. During his lifetime, he was best known for his classical poetry in octosyllables. His poetry was widely published in various periodicals, but hardly any of it was published in collections.{{sfn|DELORME Hugues: Père-Lachaise}}

Delorme died on 20 May 1942 and lies in the 89th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His tomb is decorated with the inscription:{{sfn|DELORME Hugues: Père-Lachaise}} {{blockquote|"How sweet when you are old<br/>To love one who loves you ... "}}

==Works== * 1889 ''Pierrot Amoureux'' * 1891 ''Pierrot financier'' * 1894 ''La Mort d’Orphée'' * 1900 ''La Marchande de pommes'' * 1903 ''Mille regrets!'' cowritten with Francis Gally * 1907 ''L'Homme rouge et la femme verte'', cowritten with Armand Nunès * 1907 ''Le Maître à aimer'', cowritten with Pierre Veber * 1907 ''Zénaïde ou les caprices du destin'' * 1912 ''Revue de l'Olympia'', interpreted by Yvonne Printemps * 1913 ''Et patati et patata'', cowritten with Georges Nanteuil, interpreted by Yvonne Printemps * 1914 ''La Fille de Figaro'', cowritten with Maurice Hennequin, music Xavier Leroux, with Jane Marnac * 1921 ''Chanson d'amour'' (Song of Love), adapted with Léon Abric from ''Das Dreimäderlhaus'' (7 May 1921) * 1926 ''Divin Mensonge'', operetta in 3 acts and 6 tableaux by Josef Szulc, cowritten with Alex Madis and Pierre Veber * 1926 ''Le Temps d'aimer'' operetta in 3 acts by Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff, couplets by Hugues Delorme, music Reynaldo Hahn, Théâtre de la Michodière, 7 November 1926

==References== '''Citations''' {{reflist |colwidth=30em}} '''Sources''' {{refbegin}} *{{cite web|ref={{harvid|DELORME Hugues: Père-Lachaise}}|url=http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=2284 |title=DELORME Hugues (1868-1942)|date=12 March 2009|work=Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise|access-date=2014-02-05}} *{{cite book |last=Flers|first=Robert de|author-link=Robert de Flers |title=Hugues Delorme chez les fées |year=1922}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/934/1/M10276.pdf |language=French |last=Garneau|first=Philippe|date=February 2008|title=LES RELATIONS ENTRE LA FRANCE ET LE CANADA À LA FIN DU XIXe SIÈCLE: LA REVUE PARIS-CANADA (1884–1909) |access-date=2014-02-05}} {{refend}}

==External links== {{refbegin}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=uODF6d6cnMYC&pg=PA319 Catulle Mendès-France, "''Le mouvement poétique française de 1867 à 1900''", éditions Ministère de l'éducation nationale, Paris : 1903] *[http://appoline.pagesperso-orange.fr/Polin/ccbe3.html Biographie succincte de Hugues Delorme] *[http://www.chapitre.com/CHAPITRE/fr/BOOK/donnay-maurice-bonneau-dominique-yispa-vincent-delorme-hugues-warnod-andre-mac-o/l-esprit-montmartrois-interviews-et-souvenirs-par-maurice-donnay-dominique-bonna,9415740.aspx Hugues Delorme et l'esprit montmartrois] {{refend}}

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