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		Murger was born in Paris in 1822, the son of a tailor.
		His born name was Henri Murger, though he later chose to distinguish himself by modifying the spelling of his first name, as well as placing a meaningless "umlaut" over the "u" in his last name.
		Mainly, though, Murger was a struggling artist and writer, and he had many friends in the same class, including such notable or soon-to-be notable figures as Champfleury, Nadar and Baudelaire.
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	Encyclopedia: Henri Murger
		Henri Murger (March 27, 1822- Paris, January 28, 1861) was a French novelist and poet, born at Paris.
		Henri Murger was born in 1822 and was the son of a man who exercised the joint calling of tailor and doorkeeper in the Rue Saint Georges, Paris.
		When Murgerâs friends would urge on her the decency of at least keeping up appearances and giving apparently valid excuses for a night spent away from the lodging-house in the Rue des Canettes where she was living with him, she would only laugh.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henri-Murger (8116 words)

	Penn Current \| April 15, 2004 \| Bookquick
		Based largely upon Henri Murger’s own experiences and those of his fellow artists, “The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter”; was originally produced as a play in 1849 and first appeared in book form in 1851.
		The novel consists of a series of interrelated episodes in the lives of a group of poor friends—a musician, a poet, a philosopher, a sculptor, and a painter—who attempt to maintain their artistic ideals while struggling for food, shelter and sex.
		Henri Murger (1822-1861) wrote for magazines and newspapers and authored several books of fiction but is remembered today only for this novel of artistic life in 19th-century Paris.
	www.upenn.edu /pennnews/current/2004/041504/bookquick.html (256 words)

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		The opera's material was adapted from Henri Murger's novel Scenes de la Vie de Boheme which is actually nothing but a series of sketches of the adventures of the author and some of his friends during their youthful days as aspiring artists in the Paris's Latin Quarter.
		In Murger, the painting is entitled "The Passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites." It was turned down, repeatedly, for exhibition at the Salon, so Marcel changed it slightly and retitled it "The Crossing of the Rubicon," but he failed to hoodwink the jury, and it was rejected again.
		Musette in Murger (Musetta in the opera) is Marcel's mistress.
	www.pzweifel.com /music/boheme_notes.htm (1204 words)

	Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
		Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
		Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
		Murger isn't nearly as well-known as his contemporaries Balzac, Sand, Stendhal and Zola.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_murger_bohemians.html (887 words)

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		HENRI MURGER'S BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTER Bohemians of the Latin Quarter was originally...
		Based on Henry Murger' serialization of ScËnes de la vie de bohËme (1845) and the play La vie de bohËme by Murger and ThÈodore BarriËre (1849), the libretto was versified by Giacosa and the scenes...
		A masterpiece of compositional craftsmanship, this is an adaptation of Henri Murger's memoirs of his life as an impoverished Parisian poet, vividly spotlighting his friends and lovers.
	felonymurder.merkmurder.com /murger (1107 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7862/63, La Bohème - Booklet Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Puccini mentioned that he had begun to work on a musical setting of Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de Bohème - a loose collection of tableaux depicting the lives of impoverished young artists in Paris of the 1840s, which had brought their author vast fame and wealth when adapted for the theatre in 1849.
		Popular as Murger's original work had been, it was no easy task to transform what was in effect a rambling collection of autobiographical sketches into a cohesive dramatic plot with a beginning, a development and a resolution.
		Murger's original characters were compounded from real-life models, friends of the author, and fellow bohemians: Rodolfo was in fact a portrait of Murger himself, and Mimì a composite of three frail female friends, two of whom, like Puccini's heroine, did actually die young of Tuberculosis.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7862c.html (1696 words)

	Henry Murger Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Henry Murger was born on 27 March 1822 at 17, rue St-Georges in Paris.
		At the new address as at the previous one, Murger's father, a tailor, served as concierge.
		Several famous literary, artistic, and musical personalities lived in the building, so that, while the family was not wealthy, the boy grew up in a rather cultivated atmosphere.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/henry-murger-dlb (186 words)

	Baltimore Opera - Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murger was the son of a Parisian concierge, and he grew up among the artists who were his father's tenants, one of whom is purported to have been the great singer Luigi Lablache.
		In fact, Rodolphe is based on the real Henri Murger, and he describes this character as having a multicolored thicket of a beard complimented by very little hair on the top of his head.
		Murger describes Marcel's shabby clothing as being topped off by a strident green, hole-ridden coat which Musette, his coquettish lady friend, tried to darn at their first meeting.
	www.baltimoreopera.com /studyguide/laboheme_05.asp (803 words)

	Henri Murger - Boheme - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Henri Murger (1822—1861), studierte Malerei und verdiente seinen Lebensunterhalt als Journalist und Schriftstel1er in Paris.
		Henri Murgers Roman von 1851 gilt als Urtext der europäischen Boheme-Literatur und inspiriert bis heute zu Nachahmungen und Bearbeitungen: Puccinis Oper "La Boheme" geht ebenso auf Murger zurück wie "Das Leben der Boheme" des Filmregisseurs Aki Kaurismäki.
		In den von Murger romantisierend beschriebenen Pariser Absteigen hätte er auch gern mal genächtigt.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/5619.html (797 words)

	Henri Murger - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Henri Murger - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Henri, Robert (1865-1929), American painter, art educator, and mentor of the group of painters known as The Eight.
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	Grandi Tenori.com » Audio of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murger and the artists Tabart and Chintreuil, joined up with the sculptor Joseph Debrosses and moved to the Hotel Merciol in the rue des Canettes, where they lived in unbelievable poverty.
		However, Murger was more than thankful to discover a cafe where the owner was sympathetic to Murger and his friends and where a cup of coffee cost five sous.
		Rodolphe was clearly Murger himself and Louise was inspired by Lucile Louvet, a factory girl he had come to know, and who was undoubtedly the model for Mimi, who first appeared in the third of his sketches on July 9th, 1846.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /features/am/am_2004-10.php (2888 words)

	The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter \| Murger, Henri. Translated by Ellen Marriage and John Selwyn. Introduction by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Based largely upon Henri Murger's own experiences and those of his fellow artists, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter was originally produced as a play in 1849 and first appeared in book form in 1851.
		Set in the ancient Latin Quarter, a vibrant and cosmopolitan area near the University of Paris, the novel is a masterful portrait of nineteenth-century Parisian artistic life.
		Henri Murger (1822-1861) wrote for magazines and newspapers and authored several books of fiction but is remembered today only for this novel of artistic life in nineteenth-century Paris.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/14043.html (278 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Henri Murger wrote this novel when he was a poor writer living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840's.
		Legend has it that when the French playwright Theodore Barriere came to visit Murger in his tiny apartment to discuss how to transform the collection of stories into a play, Murger was lying in bed, but vehemently denied that he was sick.
		When Barriere suggested that the two continue their discussion in a café, the chagrined Murger apologetically admitted that he couldn't; he had lent his only pair of pants to a friend, and was forced to wait in bed until they were returned.
	www.clevelandopera.org /tour/educational/boheme/genesis.htm (768 words)

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		Bohemia's foremost publicity-man, Henri Murger, died at thirty-eight, complaining weakly of the rotting stench in his room, so far gone from syphilitic paresis that he didn't realize that the stench came from his own flesh.
		She also features as "Musette" in Murger's Scenes de la Vie de Boheme, in which she is the mistress of "Marcel," himself said to be based partially on Nadar.
		Christine stands in a conventional model's art-posture, weight on one leg, torso slightly twisted, but her face is hidden in the crook of her raised right elbow, rendering her effectively anonymous, a luscious icon for the male gaze.
	www.well.com:70 /0/Publications/authors/Sterling/Catscan_Stuff/verne.rue (4755 words)

	Reviews
		Puccini’s opera was based on Henri Murger’s The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter; however, the novel depicts the Bohemian lifestyle in slightly different hues.
		Murger’s novel starts with a preface that seeks to clarify the meaning of “Bohemian.” He creates a history for the Bohemians that dates back to the beginning of time and has an illustrious genealogy that includes the Greeks, “melodious vagabonds” of the Middle Ages, the famous artists of Renaissance Italy, and Jean Jacques Rousseau (xviii).
		Murger’s Bohemians are like the aristocrats of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, who avoid misfortune simply because of the superiority of their very being.
	www.cercles.com /review/r20/murger.htm (1165 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: La Vie de Bohème
		Murger himself died at 39, evidently as a result of the privations and excesses of his youth.
		The friend of Murger who was the basis for the poet Rodolfo in the opera is described this way: "A young man with a huge, bushy, multicolored beard.
		Mimí and Musetta in the opera are composites of the many young women who flocked around Murger's circle of male friends (one of whom was called "The Green Giant" because of a huge green overcoat he never took off, in the pockets of which he kept books--he was the model for Puccini's Colline).
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/227.html (1459 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Americans in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The bohemian ideal was first characterized by the French writer Henri Murger during the 1840s.
		In a series of magazine articles based on his own experiences, Murger told stories in which artists sacrifice creature comforts in order to devote themselves to their muse.
		Murger's stories inspired Giacomo Puccini's popular 1896 opera La Bohéme and continued to captivate Americans for decades.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/Americans_in_Paris/pop_intro.asp?g=2 (175 words)

	The Luxembourg
		But there is little of the Henri Murger glamour in the Quartier Latin nowadays.
		The Luxembourg was built by Marie de Medicis during her brief period of power after the death of Henri IV., and one small part of the original building remains ; indeed this remnant may be part of an older hotel belonging to the Duc de Luxembourg from whom Marie de Medicis bought the site.
		Another was concerned with the intrigues of the League and the wars of religion, finally to be convicted of high treason and beheaded in the Bastille during the reign of Henri IV.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/paris9.shtml (2000 words)

	Murger, Henri -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of a concierge and a tailor, Murger left school at 13.
		French novelist Henri Murger was among the first to depict the precarious lives of poor artists and writers—which he knew from experience.
		French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer Henri Farman was born in Paris.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054345?tocId=9054345 (612 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette Pfaff's on Broadway
		Resultant from the success of his Scenes de la Vie de Boheme author Henri Murger earned his way into the very middle class social group his characters detested.
		Also that the counterculture life Murger led could be undermined by the comforts accorded his success.
		Henry Clapp ended his days as a pauper in an asylum on Blackwell's, now Roosevelt, Island.
	www.nycny.com /content/history/pfaffs.htm (621 words)

	Henri Murger
		One of the original bohemians, Henri Murger is famous for writing the collection of short stories Scenes of Bohemian Life.
		The characters and locations in the book closely mirrored those of Murger's early life as a bohemian living in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France.
		Murger was known to say that living a bohemian lifestyle should only be a temporary existence and living as one would eventually destroy a man. He died at the age of 38 with these last words, No more music!
	www.newbohemian.com /Famous-Bohemians-Henri-Murger (171 words)

	La Boheme Synopsis - Moviefone
		Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per picture but also gave her complete control over her productions, including choice of co-stars and directors.
		For her inaugural MGM effort, Gish selected La Boheme, the theatrical version of Henri Murger's 1851 novel The Latin Quarter.
		Gish is cast as Mimi, the fragile little seamstress who takes up residence in Paris's "artists colony." Here she falls in love with aspiring painter Rodolphe (John Gilbert), who though professing undying devotion and dedication to Mimi cannot help but dally with other girls.
	movies.aol.com /movie/la-boheme/1111448/synopsis (327 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette Pfaff's on Broadway
		Resultant from the success of his Scenes de la Vie de Boheme author Henri Murger earned his way into the very middle class social group his characters detested.
		Also that the counterculture life Murger led could be undermined by the comforts accorded his success.
		Henry Clapp ended his days as a pauper in an asylum on Blackwell's, now Roosevelt, Island.
	www.gvny.com /content/history/pfaffs.htm (621 words)

	Opera Newsletter
		The literary source of La Bohème was Henri Murger’s novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème, a loose collection of autobiographic short stories about the lives of four Bohemian artists and their lovers which had previously appeared as a serial story in a magazine.
		They briefly contemplated Murger and Théodore Barrière’s dramatic adaptation of the stories, La vie de Bohème (a copy of the first edition of this play can be found in the Lilly Library), which had solved the problem by consolidating characters and events from the short stories into a five-act play.
		Their solution was to focus on “Le manchon de Francine,” from Murger’s Scènes de la vie de Bohème, a self-contained story about a poor sculptor Jacques and his consumptive lover Francine who begs for a muff at her deathbed.
	www.music.indiana.edu /publicity/opera/newsletter/vol1-number3/notes.html (887 words)

	Prospectus - America's Cultural Rebels: Artistic Avant-gardes and the Rise of Countercultures. History of American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beginning the first section of Part III is a brief discussion of Progressive reform and the advent of the “European Liberation,” Henry May’s term for the welter of new ideas in science and thought (i.e., relativity, quantum mechanics, Freudianism).
		Henri Bergson’s Vitalism is assessed as another major influence on the early moderns.
		The remaining discussion deals with Henri’s Philadelphia-based art circle that eventually migrated, during the early 1900s, to New York—the country’s center of artistic circles and salons—and joined with other artists in defying the National Academy of Design by holding their own independent exhibition in 1908.
	www.americanavantgarde.com /prospectus.htm (4990 words)

	Murger Henri - livres nouveaux et utilisés
		Murger eroberte der Literatur ein neues Gebiet: er gewann für die Kunst den Künstler selbst, das Dasein des Künstlers mit seinem Ringen um Kunst und bürgerliche Existenz.
		Henri Murger, dessen übrige Werke der Vergessenheit anheimgefallen sind, hat mit dieser Schilderung des bunten Treibens der Pariser Künstler und Kunstzigeuner den Begriff der «Boheme» geprägt.
		Murger, Henri, Illustrated by Montader - The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
	fr.isbn.pl /A-murger-henri (1199 words)

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