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Josephine Colomb
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 published in the collection " Bibliothèque des écoles et des familles " of the Hachette publishing house in Paris. Instead of presenting the usual orphans or unhappy teenagers in late nineteenth-century juvenile fiction, Columbus constructed characters with a mind of their own who often challenge the authority of adults with intelligence. The French Academy awarded him the Montyon Prize in 1875 and the Jules-Favre Prize in 1893.
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Jules de Goncourt
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 annually in his honor.
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Jules Girardin
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 then practiced in several high schools before settling in Versailles high school. He has collaborated with the European Review, the Mosaic, the Magasin Pittoresque, the Youth Journal and the Revue des deux Mondes, for which he provides many news. He distinguished himself to posterity by writing novels for youth illustrated with engravings, and was, it seems, successful at the time. His works are above all of moral significance and his favourite heroes are the weak and the underprivileged. With a definite talent expressed in observations full of delicacy, he combined stories with fortifying morality. Some of his works have been translated into English, Swedish, Italian and Spanish. We owe him a free adaptation of the Adventures of the Baron of Münchhausen.
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Jules Lermina
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), Nouvelles Histoires Incroyables [New Incredible Tales] (1888) and a short novel, L'Élixir de Vie [The Elixir of Life] (1890) (translated by Brian Stableford and included in Panic in Paris). Le Secret des Zippelius [The Secret of the Zippelius] (1893) (translated by Brian Stableford as The Secret of Zippelius (2011) ISBN 978-1-935558-88-0) featured the controlled disintegration of water. His two-volume La Bataille de Strasbourg [The Battle of Strasbourg] (1895) was one of the first novels on the theme of the yellow peril. Lermina also penned a proto-Tarzan novel, To-Ho le Tueur d'Or (1905) (translated by Georges T. Dodds as To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers ISBN 978-1-935558-34-7, two sequels to the popular classic The Count of Monte-Cristo: Le Fils de Monte-Cristo (1881) (that in English was divided in two books: The Wife of Monte Cristo and The Son of Monte Cristo), and Le Trésor de Monte-Cristo [The Treasure of Monte-Cristo] (1885), and Les Mystères de New York [The Mysteries of New York] (1874), also written under the pseudonym of William Cobb. He also created the indomitable Toto Fouinard, whose adventures were serialized in 1908–09.
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Jules Schanz
co-author: The book of tales
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Julie Gouraud
Julie Gouraud (1810-1891), was a French author of children's books. She used the pseudonym Louise d'Aulnay.
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Karl May
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 Omar. May also wrote novels set in Latin America and Germany, poetry, a play, and composed music, he was a proficient player of several musical instruments. Many of his works were adapted for film, stage, audio dramas and comics. Later in his career, May turned to philosophical and spiritual genres. He is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200,000,000 copies worldwide.
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Laure Junot d'Abrantès
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 editions have since appeared. Of her other books the most noteworthy are Histoires contemporaines (2 vols., 1835), Scènes de la vie espagnole (2 vols., 1836), Histoire des salons de Paris (6 vols., 1837–1838), Souvenirs d'une ambassade et d'un séjour en Espagne et en Portugal, de 1808 à 1811 (2 vols., 1837).
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Laure Surville (née Balza...
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 that served as the basis for some of Balzac's "four-handed" novels. This is the case of Cuckoo's Journey, which Balzac transformed into : Un début dans la vie (A Beginning in Life), which appeared as a serial in the magazine La Législature under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Danger of Mystifications) in 1842, then in 1845 in the second Charles Furne edition of La Comédie humaine, classified in the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life). Laure Balzac began her career as an author by writing under the pseudonym "Lelio", for literary magazines for children. She then published under the name of " Laure Surville ", where she expressed her equivocal feeling towards the status of married women writers. In the portrait gallery of women in La Comédie humaine, she represents righteousness and wisdom. We recognize scattered fragments of her personality in Eugénie Grandet, but also Marguerite, the eldest daughter of Balthazar Claës in La Recherche de l'absolu. Balzac pays a heartfelt tribute to his sister in his short story Le Voyage en coucou, from which he drew inspiration for his novel Un début dans la vie (A Beginning in Life). And Laure Surville will later publish her short story under the signature of Laure in 1854. The writer thus dedicates A Beginning in Life (1842) to his sister: "To Laure. That the brilliant and modest spirit which gave me the subject of this scene has the honor of it. His brother. »
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Le comte de Lautréamont
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 of 24.