Léon Hennique
# Léon Hennique

Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 – 25 December 1935) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright.

## Life

Léon Hennique was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, the son of the naval infantry officer Agathon Hennique. He studied painting, but after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 devoted himself to literature and became a naturalistic novelist and dramatist. He was a friend of Émile Zola, but broke with him over the Dreyfus Affair.

He died in Paris on 25 December 1935 and is buried at Ribemont.

His daughter was the symbolist poet Nicolette Hennique.

## Works

Novels

* La Dévouée (1878)
* L'Accident de M. Hébert (1883)
* Pœuf (1887)
* Un Caractère (1889)
* Minnie Brandon (1899)

Novellas

* Deux Nouvelles (1881) [In English translation: Two Novellas: Francine Cloarec's Funeral & Benjamin Rozes; Sunny Lou Publishing, ISBN 978-1-95539-204-4, 2021.]

Plays

* L'Empereur Dassoucy (1879)
* Pierrot sceptique (with Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1881)
* Jacques Damour (1887)
* Esther Brandès (1887)
* La Mort du duc d'Enghien (1888)
* Amour (1890)
* La Menteuse (1892)
* L'Argent d'autrui (1893)
* Deux Patries (1895)
* La Petite Paroisse (with Alphonse Daudet, 1895)
* Jarnac (with Johannès Gravier, 1909)
