Marie Édouard Magnien ( Montfort-l'Amaury, 4 July 1795 – Versailles, after 1864) was a 19th-century French homme de lettres.

Biography

The son of a lawyer in Parliament,

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's great-great-cousin, a tutor in the Sarthe

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, he is mostly known for his ''Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français'' in 1826 and his participation in the writing of the play ''Le Secret d'état'' (1831) by Eugène Sue and

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. A founding member of the Société des Sciences naturelle, he resigned in 1864.

Works

*1821: ''L'Ode au sommeil'', ode *1826: ''Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français'' *1831: ''Le Secret d'état'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Eugène Sue and

*1836: ''Mortel, ange ou démon'', 2 vols., collection of poems *1836: ''Excursions en Espagne ou chroniques provinciales de la péninsule'' *1841: ''Épître à un centenaire'', 1841 Play crowned by the Académie des Jeux floraux in 1841. *1851: ''Notice nécrologique sur M. Adolphe Veytard''

Bibliography

* ''Revue de l'Histoire de Versailles et de Seine-et-Oise'', 1968,

References

External links

Édouard Magnien
on data.bnf.fr 19th-century French writers People from Yvelines 1795 births Year of death missing {{france-writer-stub