Gustave Janicot
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Léonard Jean Gustave Janicot (19 March 1830 – 18 February 1910) was a French journalist, director of the Gazette de France between 1861 and 1910.
Biography
Born in Paris, Gustave Janicot was the son of Marie-Louise Faccioli, a native of the Veneto region,[1] and Léonard Janicot (1778–1862), a former soldier in the Great Army (Chevalier of the Legion of Honor on May 1, 1851).[2]
A student at the boarding school of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Passy, Gustave Janicot was placed at the age of sixteen with the Abbot Genoude, director of the Gazette de France, who employed him as a secretary. After Genoude's death, Janicot kept his position with Honoré de Lourdoueix, the new director of the legitimist newspaper, who allowed the young man to sign his first articles in 1850. A few years later, Janicot succeeded Joseph Brisset as editor of the daily bulletin of the Gazette.
In March 1861, Janicot replaced Paul de Lourdoueix, who had resigned for health reasons, at the direction of the oldest newspaper in France,[3] of which he became the owner in 1875. In addition to feature articles and "premiers-Paris", which he signed with his name, he also wrote some articles of dramatic criticism under the pen name "Edmond Rack".
Between 1875[4] and 1879,[5] he presided over the Parisian Press Union.
An uncompromising royalist, Gustave Janicot disapproved of his party's dealings with General Boulanger at the end of the 1880s.
In May 1900, he encouraged Charles Maurras to conduct his Enquête sur la Monarchie.[6]
Stricken by age and illness, which took him away from the direction of the Gazette around 1909,[7] Gustave Janicot died on February 18, 1910 in his home at 24 Malesherbes Square. His body was temporarily placed in a vault in the church of Saint-Charles-de-Monceau, where the funeral took place on February 23, and was then buried in a family grave in the Cemetery of Notre-Dame.
Notes
- ↑ M. de Lescure, "La Gazette de France", Le Figaro, 23 avril 1863, p. 4.
- ↑ Le Moniteur Universel, 4 mai 1851, p. 1256.
- ↑ La Gazette de France, 7 mars 1861, p. 1.
- ↑ La Gazette de France, 16 juin 1875, p. 5.
- ↑ Le Globe, 6 novembre 1879, p. 2.
- ↑ Charles Maurras, Enquête sur la Monarchie. Paris: Nouvelle librairie nationale, 1925, pp. 21, 294.
- ↑ La Gazette de France, 20 février 1910, p. 1.
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