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GOZLAN, LEON (1806-1866)

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GOZLAN, See also:LEON (1806-1866) , See also:French novelist and See also:play-writer, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:September 1806, at See also:Marseilles. When he was still a boy, his See also:father, who had made a large See also:fortune" as a See also:ship-See also:broker, met with a See also:series of misfortunes, and Leon, before completing his See also:education, had to go to See also:sea in See also:order to See also:earn a living. In 1828 we find him in See also:Paris, determined to run the risks of See also:literary See also:life. His townsman, See also:Joseph Wry, who was then making himself famous by his See also:political satires, introduced him to several See also:newspapers, and Gozlan's brilliant articles in the See also:Figaro did much harm to the already tottering See also:government of See also:Charles X. His first novel was See also:Les Memoires d'un apothicaire (1828), and this was followed by numberless others, among which may be mentioned See also:Washington Levert et Socrate Leblanc (1838), Le Notaire de See also:Chantilly (1836), Aristide See also:Froissart (1843) (one of the most curious and celebrated of his productions), Les Nuits du Pere Lachaise (x846), Le Tapis vent (1855), La Folk du logis (1857), Les Emotions de Polydore Marasquin (1857), &c. His best-known See also:works for the See also:theatre are— La Pluie et le beau temps (1861), and Une Tempete daps un See also:verse d'eau (185o), two See also:curtain-raisers which have kept the See also:stage; Le See also:Lion empaille (1848), La See also:Queue du chien d'Alcibiade (1849), See also:Louise de See also:Nanteuil (1854), Le Gateau See also:des reines (1855), Les Paniers de la comtesse (1852); and he adapted several of his own novels to the stage. Gozlan also wrote a romantic and picturesque description of the old manors and mansions of his See also:country entitled Les Chateaux de See also:France (2 vols., 1844), originally published (1836) as Les Tourelles, which has some archaeological value, and a See also:biographical See also:essay on See also:Balzac (Balzac chez lui, 1862). He was made a member of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1846, and in 1859 an officer of that order. Gozlan died on the 14th of September 1866, in Paris. See also P. Audebrand, Leon Gozlan (1887).

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