Joséphine-Blanche Bouchet, born February 4, 1833 in La Roche-sur-Yon and died September 18, 1892 in Villerville, is a French writer. Wife of the academic, illustrator and writer Louis-Casimir Colomb, she signed her books "Mme J. Colomb" or "Mme Louis-Casimir Colomb". Her books for young people are ...

Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, (17 December 1830 – 20 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy of a stroke brought on by syphilis. The Prix Goncourt is awarded annu...

Jules Girardin was a French writer, born January 4, 1832 in Loches (Indre-et-Loire) and died October 26, 1888 in Paris. He sometimes adopted the pseudonym J. Levoisin. He studied in Châteauroux. A student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he became an accredited grammar and literature professor. He ...

Jules Lermina (1839–1915) was a French writer. He began his career as a journalist in 1859. He was arrested for his socialist political opinions, and received Victor Hugo's support. He published a number of Edgar Allan Poe-inspired collections, Histoires Incroyables [Incredible Tales] (1885), Nouve...

co-author: The book of tales

Julie Gouraud (1810-1891), was a French author of children's books. She used the pseudonym Louise d'Aulnay.

Karl Friedrich May 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his travel novels set on one hand in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main protagonists and on the other hand in the Orient and Middle East with Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef O...

Laure (6 November 1784 – 7 June 1838) was born as Laure Adélaïde Constance Permon at Montpellier, was a French writer. In 1800, Laure married Jean-Andoche Junot (created Duke of Abrantès, whom she called Alexandre, in 1806). The Memoirs were published at Paris in 1831–1834 in 18 volumes. Many edi...

Laure Surville, was born Laure Balzac September 29, 1800 in Tours and died in Paris 9th on January 4, 1871. Favourite sister of the writer Honoré de Balzac, she published a biography of the latter after his death, Balzac, his life and his works according to his correspondence. She also wrote texts ...

Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. He died at the age...