Hippolyte Babou (1824-1878) was a French journalist, critic and novelist. Babou also wrote as Jean-sans-Peur, and used the name Camille Lorrain for his journalism in ''Le Corsaire'', '' Le Charivari'', ''

L'Illustration ''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French language, French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, a ...

'', '' La Patrie'', and '' Revue de Paris''. Babou was born on 24 February 1824 in Peyriac,

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. A friend of

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, 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 exoticis ...

, Babou suggested the title ' Les Fleurs du mal' to Baudelaire at the end of 1854.

Works

* ''La vérité sur le cas de M. Champfleury''. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. * ''Les payens innocents; nouvelles''. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858. * ''Lettres satiriques et critiques''. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860. * ''Les amoureux de Madame de Sévigné. Les femmes vertueuses du grand siècle''. Paris: Didier, 1862. * (as Jean-sans-Peur) ''L'homme à la lanterne''. Paris: Thézard, 1868. * ''Les sensations d'un juré: vingt figures contemporaines''. Paris: A. Lemerre, 1875. * ''Les prisonniers du Deux-décembre: mes émotions, mes souvenirs''. Paris: Decaux, 1876.

References

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