1833.
Though now best known as a novelist, he began as a poet, and it is not
certain that he will not finally be best remembered for his verse.
His eyes and his sympathies are for the woods and fields and for the
simple toilers whose lives lie close to them. He has instilled into
his poems something of the odors of the forest and of the soil.
Works: _Le Chemin des bois_, 1867 ; _les Paysans de l'Argonne, 1792._
1871; _le Bleu et le Noir_, 1873; _le Livre de la Payse_, 1882.
For reference: E. Besson, _André Theuriet, sa vie et ses oeuvres_,
1890.