birth certificate of Louis François Tourte 2, dit Francis Tourte
baptism of Francis Tourte in 1816
marriage of LFT2 known as Francis Tourte in 1836
with Victoire Gaveau
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autograph of Sainte-Beuve (1840)
"on Tuesday
I receive, Sir, with gratitude, and read with a true interest the beautiful collection that you are making me address me. Your fresh watercolours, your modest bells indeed have nuances in conformity
And you were allowed to baptize them like this.
Believe, sir, in my well-distinguished and coerced feelings"
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autograph by Victor Hugo (1843)
"I took your book to the country yesterday, sir, and I read your beautiful verses. It's a good and hard thing that poetry in the trees, in the sky, in the... full of flowers. I thank you for the excellent hours you have made me spend.
Accept, Sir, the assurance of my distinguished feelings.
Victor Hugo 19 May -- St Mandé
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Chateaubriand Autograph
"Yours, sir, join the feeling of harmony with the religious sentiment. May the Christian muse guide you and it will lead you well, if you want to continue to walk in a career too often sterile.
Accept, Sir, with my sincere thanks the assurance of my very distinguished consideration.
Chateaubriand
27-9bre 1840
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Autograph of Lamartine
"Mr.
I thank you for thinking about me and for refreshing me from your poetic breezes. I will have no doubt about the scent of your youth and no matter how much it goes from the top or the valley, provided it revives those who like me thirst for poetry and calm. Receive with all my wishes, the expression of my gratitude.
Lamartine
28 October 1840 "
- His grandfather and great-grandfather, François-Xavier TOURTE(1747-1835) and Nicolas Pierre TOURTE were famous archers.
- His father. Louis-François 1 TOURTE (born 1786) was a musician at the Court of CharlesX.
- His brother Felix was a painter (he would have ruined the family, who had to pay his debts).
- He was himself a poet and composer of operettas and songs (music was often written by Georges Douay), but his wife was a shopkeeper in lingerie, handkerchiefs, etc., because the poetry was not to bring back much.
Our family has not kept any of Francis' works.
Turns out, but we're now finding new tracks on the Internet.
In particular, the site dedicated to Lyric Art. and its pages:
http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/personnages/Tourte%20Francis.html
http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/oeuvres/Docteur%20Tam-Tam.html
Against a page in English from the same site, translated into English (automatically?) in a crazy way, the name of the tourte being translated as "pie".
His works have become increasingly known on the Internet since Gallica published some of his productions.
for example "Remi, or Belief and Martyr", new in verse, 1843, which can be read in full on Gallica, at: (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6452421q.swf.f9.langFR)
The Review of Paris from 1843 (listed by Google) contains a vigorous critique of several poets, including Francis Tourte
Later, he seems to have published collections of popular songs, and sometimes he wrote the music
Google has digitized a collection "Romances, songs and songs" by Francis Tourte, published in 1863, a copy of which was to be found at Columbia College Library. attached
The book is also available at: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57224912.r=
francis+tourte+romances.langFR
For these 2 works reprints are available
A musical score of the song "Le beggar d'Espagne"
was purchased from a bookstore (Lepiq), without date.
Other works must be at the National Library, but probably not digitized to date and therefore more difficult to access.
Yves Cordelle's grandmother, Good-bye, ma'am., still received in the 1950s some payments of copyright from his productions (the text of the song "Autre de ma blond" would be of him, according to Jean Cordelle, but it seems that it is a legend).
We kept it from that time.
autograph letters from the great famous poets of the moment: Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve,
From 1840 and 1843, addressed to Francis TOURTE (9 rue des Bades Paroles, Paris), who had sent them his poetic collections. These letters are currently part of Yves's and part of Michel CORDELLE's.
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Two other collections (in 12), without dates, entitled "Chansons, romances et chansonnettes", published in Paris at Delarue, were purchased via Abebooks from 2 booksellers in Montpellier and Bilbao (the bindings are quite modern, made by the bookstore to facilitate sale?)
The songs are different from those of the collection of 1863, and only a few are common to both books.
Below is the collection found in a bookseller in Bilbao, it is 2 almanach songs, one of which is written by F. Tourte and put into music by Georges Douay:
A table porcelain service (very small today) with a green decoration, bearing the LFT figure of Louis-François TOURTE (probably the first of the two Louis-François, that is the musician at the Court).
Parts of the service to the LFT number
the LFT number
Chateaubriand autograph
Chateaubriand Autograph
"Paris, 18 May 1843
My praises and advice, sir, are very little; I do not value what I am or what I have been. If your life is assured, keep on caring for the muses; they will sometimes deceive you, because they are women: by expecting their whims one is not surprised at least at the day of their infidelity: so far you have not had to complain about it.
Accept, Sir, my sincere congratulations and the assurance of my very distinguished consideration.
Chateaubriand
Still suffering I cannot write myself and I am obliged to dictate: you will excuse me for this."
autograph of Sainte Beuve (1843?)
Autograph of Sainte-Beuve
"on 2
I have received, sir, with gratitude, the sending of your novel-poem. I find there first of all paintings where the naivety of tone blends or contrasts with the elevation of the idea. I love, you know, this familiar walk which leads yet high. I will finish reading, but I did not want to delay you further, Sir, my compliments and the assurance of my most distinguished feelings.
St. Beuve