Summary: Émile Gigault de La Bédollière, born May 24, 1812 in Amiens, died April 24, 1883 in Paris 1st arrondissement (51 rue d'Argenteuil), is a French writer, goguettier, journalist and translator. Son of Pierre Gigault de La Bédollière and Sophie Vérité, nephew of Count L. Gigault of La Bédollière de Bellefont, he studied law and became a lawyer in January 1833. He led a literary life during his studies, literary life started barely fourteen years old, when his first inspirations appeared in Psyche, a popular women's journal at that time. He then became part of this generation of French romantics which ignited at the time of the July Revolution (1830). He frequents Nerval, Théodose Burette, Bouchardy, Brot, Lorentz, Perrin, Théodore Rousseau, a mix of designers, engravers, poets and future playwrights.

Books of Émile de La Bédollière