François Coppée (1842-1908) was a French poet, playwright and novelist. His main source of inspiration and success: Paris and its suburbs, the world of the humble, nostalgia for another existence. He was a great popular success.
Towards the end of his life, he became a devout Catholic, took part in the nationalist movement, denounced the system of democracy and multiplied his attacks on the accused in the Dreyfus affair. He became a member of the Académie Française in 1884, and remained so until his death.