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Achard, Amédée, 1814-1875

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Portrait of Achard
Portrait of Achard

Louis Amédée Eugène Achard (April 19, 1814, Marseille–1875, Paris) was a prolific French novelist.

After a short stay near Algiers, where he supervised a farm, he went to Toulouse, and then Marseille, where he became a journalist and wrote for the Sémaphore.

He moved to Paris, where he wrote for the Vert-Vert, the Entracte, the Charivari, and the Époque. Achard wrote extensively for the Époque, even writing for his colleagues when they lacked inspiration.

He then collaborated in the satirical journal Le Pamphlet, and was gravely wounded in a duel with a man named Fiorentino, whom he had defamed. While still convalescent, he left for Italy with the French Army to cover the war for the Journal des Débats.

Achard was a prolific writer. In addition to his journalism, he wrote about thirty plays and about forty books. He is known today primarily for his cloak and dagger novels. Some incorrectly claim that he was the originator of the term (Ponson du Terrail used the term a little before him), but he did write a novel called la Cape et l'Épée (English: The Cloak and Dagger) in 1875. Achard also wrote many books on manners.

Works

  • Belle-Rose (1847)
  • Les Petits-fils de Lovelace (1854)
  • La Robe de Nessus (1855)
  • Maurice de Treuil (1857)
  • Le Clos Pommier (1858)
  • La Sabotière (1859)
  • Les Misères d'un millionnaire (1861)
  • Histoire d'un homme (1863)
  • Les Coups d'épée de M. de La Guerche (1863) Republished by Phébus in 1991
  • Mme de Sarens (1865)
  • La Chasse à l'idéal (1867)
  • Marcelle (1868)
  • Envers et contre tous (1874) (sequel to Les Coups d'épées de M. de La Guerche) Republished by Phébus in 1991
  • La Cape et l'Épée (1875)
  • Toison d'or (1875) (sequel to La Cape et l'Épée)

References

  • (French) Amédée Achard. La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
  • (French) Amédée Achard. In Libro Veritas. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.

External links


This biographical information was gathered from the Amédée_Achard page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Belle-Rose
Madame Rose; Pierre de Villerglé
Récits d'un soldat Une Armée Prisonnière; Une Campagne Devant Paris

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