A director of the Théâtre des Capucines, Octave Pradels was also president of the SACEM from 1895 to 1898.
After a first marriage in 1865[2] in Villefranche-sur-Mer, with Angélique Thérèse De Villa-Rey, daughter of a commander of the Monaco Marine, who gave him a first son, Édouard Joseph, Pradels supposedly married the divette Maria Theresa Mirbeau in 1873. They had a son, unrecognized by the mother, Edmond André, born 26 July 1878 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, who collaborated with his father as lyricist and composer under the pseudonym Edmond Aramis. He died for France in Fort Vaux at Vaux-devant-Damloup (Meuse), 9 April 1916. In 1917 Octave Pradels remarried [3] with Marie Louise Fransurot.
Octave Pradels took great pride of having given his two sons to France. Imbued with the chauvinist[4] and revanchist mentality that arose after the capitulation in 1871, he contributed throughout his career to the dissemination of this feeling.[5] Evidence is given by this excerpt from the words of this Marche Lorraine written in 1892:
Tes fils n'ont pas dégénéré,
Sol sacré !
Adoré !
Dans leurs veines encore ruisselle
Du sang de la Pucelle !
Paulus's memories
In 1906, he started helping the singer Paulus to write his memories which would be published from 1907.
Paulus's memoirs were not published as a volume, but via the equivalent of booklets or black and white magazines sold each week. Rich in a sumptuous iconography, these notebooks contain reproductions of the cited figures, scores, but also small contextual ads.[6]
^Wedding certificate online in the archives des Alpes-Maritimes
^Birth certificate online on the site of the archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais
^See especially the song Je suis chauvin in Chansons, monologues, chansons à dire, fantaisies, (p. 57)
^The spirit of revenge was part of the world of entertainment as well as that of educational programs: the National French historiography story was focused on the awareness that the loss of Alsace-Lorraine was a violation of the territorial integrity of the homeland, and thus were trained generations of future poilus. In people's minds, the revanchist feature that patriotism had taken at the time had polarized public opinion so extreme, that the other political edge apprehended the ideas of anarchism.
^Alain Weill, François Caradec Le Café-Concert , Hachette et Massin, 1980.
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