French journalist and author, born in Paris on the 22nd of July 1805; educated at the College Rollin; and afterward contributed criticisms to L’Universel. He was an ardent legitimist, and after the revolution of 1848 founded L’Opinion Publique, which advocated the restoration of Louis Philippe; but this publication was suppressed in 1851, and the editor imprisoned. He afterward resumed his journalistic career, while he also devoted great study to historical subjects. A list of his works includes Histoire de la Révolution de Juillet 1830 (1833); Suger et son Temps (1842); Vie de Marie-Thérèse de France (1843–72); Études Critiques sur le Feuilleton Roman, criticisms from the French press (1845); Études Critiques sur les Girondins (1848); La Révolution Française (1848); Histoire de la Littérature Française sous la Restauration (1852); Histoire de la Littérature Française sous la Royauté de Juillet (1854–58); Vie de Madame la Marquise de la Rochejacquelin (1858–65); Souvenirs de la Restauration (1858); La Conquête d’Alger (1856); Histoire de la Restauration (1860–72). He died in Paris on the 15th of November 1869.
