Charles d'Héricault
Charles Joseph de Ricault (18 December 1823 – 2 November 1899), better known as Charles d'Héricault, was a French historian and novelist.
Biography
Charles d'Héricault was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He collaborated with the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Correspondant.[1] In 1883, d'Héricault founded the Revue de la Révolution which he directed until 1890.
The French legitimists organized themselves under his leadership and around the Revue de la Révolution, creating regional assemblies in 1888–1889 in which new Cahiers de doléances denouncing the evils of a century of revolution were drafted.[2]
He published novels and history books; in the first category, we can cite: La Fille aux bleuets (1860); Un Gentilhomme catholique (1863); La Reine Sauvage (1869); Les Cousins de Normandie (1874); Le Premier et le Dernier Amour de lord Saint-Albans (1879) and Aventures de deux Parisiennes pendant la Terreur (1881).
Among his historical studies, we note: Origine de l'épopée française et son histoire au moyen âge (1860); La France guerrière (1867); Histoire nationale des naufrages et aventures de mer (1870); Thermidor, Paris en 1794 (1872); La Révolution 1789-1882 (1882).
Charles d'Héricault also edited the works of Pierre Gringore, Clément Marot and Charles I of Orleans.[3] He received the Thérouanne Prize of the French Academy in 1877 for The Revolution of Thermidor. Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety in the year II.
Notes
- ↑ Isnard, Albert (1902). Le Correspondant: Table Générale de 1875 a 1900. Paris: Bureaux du Correspondant, p. 28.
- ↑ Lehning, James R. (2007). The Melodramatic Thread: Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 48.
- ↑ Lamirault, Henri (1886). La Grande encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, Vol. 28. Paris: H. Lamirault, p. 628.
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