Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (8 October 1833 - 23 April 1907) French poet and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his mother's province of Lorraine. Theuriet studied law in Paris and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement in 1886. He published in 1867 the Chemin des bois, a volume of poems, many of which had already appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes; Le bleu et le noir, poèmes de la vie réelle (1874), Nos oiseaux (1886), and other volumes followed. M. Theuriet gives natural, simple pictures of rustic and especially of woodland life, and Théophile Gautier compared him to Jaques in the forest of Arden. The best of his novels are those that deal with provincial and country life. Theuriet received in 1890 the prix Vitet from the French Academy, of which he became a member in 1896. He died on 23 April 1907, and was succeeded at the Academy by Jean Richepin. Valentin Conrart (1634) · Toussaint Rose (1675) · Louis de Sacy (1701) · Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1728) · Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun (1755) · François-Jean de Chastellux (1775) · Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï (1788) · François de Neufchâteau (1803) · Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1828) · Alexandre Dumas, fils (1874) · André Theuriet (1896) · Jean Richepin (1908) · Émile Mâle (1927) · François Albert-Buisson (1955) · Marc Boegner (1962) · René de Castries (1972) · André Frossard (1987) · Hector Bianciotti (1996)