Antonio Watripon (1822–1864) was a French

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

, critic and Republican activist.

Life

Antonio Watripon was born in

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...

in 1822. In 1847, he founded the ''Lanterne du Quartier Latin''. He and

Alfred Delvau Alfred Delvau (1825 – May 3, 1867) was a French journalist and writer born in Paris. Biography Alfred Delvau was the son of a master tanner from the Faubourg Saint-Marceau; he recounts his Parisian childhood in ''Au bord de la Bièvre : ...

founded the ''Aimable faubourien, journal de la canaille'' in 1848. He wrote under several pseudonyms, including Jules Choux au Père Duchêne, Tony Fanfan, Anacharsis Croton-Duvivier and Joseph Devimes. He was the editor of ''Journal des Écoles'', and a friend of

Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ...

.Claude Pichois, ''Lettres a Baudelaire'', p. 407

Works

* ''Histoire politique des écoles et des étudiants depuis le Moyen âge jusqu'à 1850: 1ère partie, 1815-1830'', 1850. * ''François Villon'', 1857. * ''Echos de jeunesse : les trois âges du pays latin'', 1863.

References

1822 births 1864 deaths French journalists French republicans {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub