Emile de La Bédollière (1812–1883)

[Emile Gigault].  French journalist and historian, born at Amiens, France, on the 24th of May 1812; graduated from the École des Chartes, and the same year published his Vie Politique du Marquis de LaFayette (1833). He became a regular contributor to the liberal daily, Le Siècle, and founded Le National in 1839. Among his works are Beautés des Victoires et des Conquêtes des Français (2d ed., 2 vols., 1847); Histoire des Mœurs et de la Vie Privée des Français (3 vols., 1847); Histoire de Paris (1864); Histoire Complète de la Guerre d’Allemagne et d’Italie (1866); Histoire de la Guerre de 1870–71 (1872). He wrote a few books for children, one of which, in the style of a nursery-rhyme, has been translated and imitated extensively. It is called Histoire de la Mère Michel et de son Chat (1851). He died in Paris on the 23rd of April 1883.