Henri Carnoy
French biographer and folklorist
(b. May 12 , 1861- Warloy-Baillon (Somme)- d.September 22 , 1930)
Émile Henri Carnoy , born on May 12, 1861 in Warloy-Baillon and died on September 22, 1930 in Paris , is a French biographer and folklorist .
From 1875 , at 14, Henri Carnoy collaborated on the Journal d'Amiens , for the literary part. In 1877 , he published in a specialized journal, Mélusine, which Eugène Rolland and Henri Gaidoz had just founded, a series of articles on the tales, legends, customs and beliefs of Picardy . In 1879 he gave a new series of Picardy folk tales in Romania . this work, which was the subject of a study by Reinhold Köhler of Weimar , decided the author to continue his research on popular traditions. The folk collection of Carnoy was collected and published by Françoise Morvan in the collection "Les grandes collectes" (Ouest-France) with a database classifying all of her tales.
Appointed professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in 1883 , he published that same year in the Collection of Popular Literatures of All Nations an important work on the Oral Literature of Picardy which was crowned by the Society of Sciences, Agriculture and arts of Lille . This volume was soon followed by French and Canadian tales . In 1884 , the first volume of traditional Algeria was published ; contributions to the Folklore of the Arabs , collection of all the Muslim traditions.
In July 1883 , he entered the Paris newspaper L'Opinion (later L'Estafette ) as a literary columnist where he published three or four hundred short stories published in volumes. Henri Carnoy's short stories have been translated into Italian , Spanish , Greek , English and reproduced in La Gazetta di Torino , El Globo , Le Meuse , La Turquie , Le Moniteur oriental , etc.
Henri Carnoy has also published numerous studies relating to popular traditions, mythology, points of literature , in Romania , the Revue of the History of religions , the Liberal review , the General review , the Review of popular traditions , etc. He has carried out work on “Muslim Religious Associations” ( General Review ), “The Cult of the Snake and the Dragon” ( Review of the History of Religions ), “Acousmates or Fantastic Hunts” ( General Review ), the “World of Geniuses”, the “Sleeping Warriors” ( Liberal Journal ). He directed the Revue des traditions populaires in 1886 but resigned from it, at the end of the year, to found a new review of which he was the director, La Tradition , which gathered around it many artists, scholars and scholars. He also collaborated in La Revue de l'Islam , founded by Gaston Dujarric in 1895.
Selected Books
International Collection of Tradition; directors: MM. Émile Blémont and Henry Carnoy. v. i - xiv , Paris, La Tradition, 1889-1896
Tales from Picardy , Ed. Françoise Morvan , Rennes, Ouest-France, collection "Les grandes collectes", 2005 ( ISBN 2-7373-3496-9 )
Contes français , Paris, E. Leroux, 1885 ( read online at archive.org)
Dictionary of high society and nobility , Paris, French Armorial, 1900
International dictionary of contemporary folklorists , Paris, French Armorial, 1902
Traditional Studies , Paris, J. Maissonneuve, 1890
Folklore de Constantinople , by Jean Nicolaïdes and Henry Carnoy, Paris, E. Lechevalier, 1894, re-edited in facsimile by 2009
The tradition; general review of tales, legends, songs, customs, traditions and popular arts, folklore, traditionism, history of religions, literature ... Year 1-21 1887-1907 , Paris, Aux Bureaux de La Tradition , 1887-1907
Traditional Algeria: legends, tales, songs, music, customs, customs, festivals, beliefs, superstitions, etc. ; contributions to Arab folklore , Paris, Maisonneuve & Leclerc, 1884
Doctor Cornelius; voyages, adventures and misadventures of a scholar among the Sioux , Geneva, Atar 1910
Animal Tales in the Romans du Renard , Paris, J. Maisonneuve, 1889
The Legends of France , Paris, A. Quantin 1885
Islam the Koran, dogma, religious prescriptions , Paris, Bureaux de La Tradition , 1896
Oral literature of Picardy , Paris, Maisonneuve, 1883; reprim. 1967
Saget (Abbé Louis) , Paris, [Sn], 1910
Popular traditions of Asia Minor , Comp. and tr. Jean Nicolaïdes, Paris, Maisonneuve & C. Leclere, 1889
Hans Mertens , Paris, Maison Quantin, 1887
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