AICARD, Jean-François-Victor. - French poet and playwright, b. Toulon 1848, d. Paris 1921. He abandoned legal studies to devote himself entirely to literature. His first and most significant successes were poetic works, which attracted public attention and several of which were awarded prizes by the French Academy.
Noteworthy are: Femmes croyances (1867); Rébellions et apaisements (1871); Poèmes de Provence (1874); La Chanson de l'enfant (1875); Miette et Noré (1880), a most graceful idyll that achieved great success; Dieu dans l'homme (1883); Maternité (1893); Jésus (1896). In drama he published: Au clair de la lune (1870); Pygmalion (1872); Mascarille (1873); Othello, a free adaptation from Shakespeare (1882); Le Père Lebonnard (1889). The author also wrote various short stories and novels, including: Don Juan (1889); Le roi de Camargue (1891); Diamant noir (1895) and two prose works: La Vénus de Milo (1874) and Visite en Hollande (1879).