Jean Aicard

Jean François Victor Aicard (4 February 1848 – 13 May 1921) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist.

His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction,[2] and the son began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre.

Of his plays the most successful was Le Père Lebonnard (1890), which was originally produced at the Théâtre Libre.

Among his other works are the novels, Le Roi de Camargue (1890), L'Ame d'un enfant (1898) and Tata (1901), Benjamine (1906), Arlette des Mayans (1917), and two volumes of adventure stories, Un Bandit a la Française and its sequel Le fameux chevalier Gaspard de Besse, both in 1919.

La Vénus de Milo (1874) was an account of the discovery of the statue from unpublished documents.

Jean Aicard by the sculptor Victor Nicolas (bronze bust, 1931).
Jean Aicard, sketch by
Félix Régamey, ca. 1878.