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PONTMARTIN, ARMAND AUGUSTIN JOSEPH MARIE FERRARD, COMTE DE (1811-1890)

PONTMARTIN, ARMAND AUGUSTIN See also:
JOSEPH
JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)
JOSEPH See also:
MARIE
MARIE FERRARD, See also:
COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)
COMTE DE (1811-1890) , See also:

French critic and See also:

man of letters, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

AVIGNON

Avignon (See also:

VAUCLUSE

Vaucluse) on the 16th of See also:

JULY

July 1811. Imbued by See also:

FAMILY

family tradition with legitimist sympathies, he began by attacking the followers of the encyclopaedists and their successors. In the Assemblee nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation. Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in See also:

VOLUME

volume See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form: Conies et reveries d'un planteur de choux (1845); Causeries du samedi (1857-186o); Nouveaux samedis (1865-1881), &c. But the most famous of all his books is See also:

Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at Avignon on the 29th of See also:

March 1890. See Hatzfeld and See also:

MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN (1831-1905)

Meunier, Les Critiques litteraires du XIXe siecle (1894).

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