François Julien called Jules or Julien) Turgan (8 February 1824 – 16 February 1887) was a 19th-century French
chansonnier
A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...
, physician and journalist.
Biography
Turgan studied at the
collège royal de Saint-Louis where he excelled in Latin version (1838). From 1842, he was a lyricist for
Émile Bienaimé
Paul Émile Bienaimé (6 July 1802 – 17 January 1869) was a 19th-century French composer.
Biography
A pupil at the , he studied at the Conservatoire with Victor Dourlen and François-Joseph Fétis. In 1822 he won the prize in harmony and i ...
and became a physician. He stood out in 1848 by his acts of devotion during the
days of June and during the cholera epidemic.
A scientific editor for ''
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* ''L'Événement-Journal
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'' then at the ''Le Bien-être universel'', he established ''La Fabrique, la ferme, l'atelier'' (1851–1853), a popular science newspaper. Assistant manager of the ''
Journal officiel
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*Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period
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'' (1852–1858), a friend of
Théophile Gautier,
[''Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier'' #°23, 2001, (p.82)] he became director of ''
Le Moniteur universel'' in 1852. He was also a resident member of the Science section of the "Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques" (1870–1877).
Works
*1842: ''Les Écoliers de Paris'', nocturne, music by Émile Bienaimé
*1842: ''Vole, ma noire gondole'', melody, music by Émile Bienaimé
*1851: ''Les Ballons, histoire de la locomotion aérienne depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours'', foreword by
Gérard de Nerval
*1860: ''Orfèvrerie Christofle''
*1860–1868 ''Les Grandes usines en France'', 8 vols.
*1867: ''Études sur l'Exposition universelle''
*1867: ''L'Artillerie moderne à grande puissance, études et renseignements''
*1880: ''L'Évolution légale''
*1880: ''Le Sénégal, sa colonisation par l'enseignement populaire''
*1882: ''Les Établissements Duval''
Bibliography
*
Pierre Larousse, ''Le Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'', vol.7, 1898, (p. 1159)
*
Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''.
Biography
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, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', 1880, (p. 1777)
* ''Notice nécrologique de Julien Turgan'', ''La Nature'', 1887
* René Martin, ''La vie d'un grand journaliste'', 1948, (p. 106)
References
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French chansonniers
19th-century French physicians
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
1824 births
Writers from Paris
1887 deaths
19th-century French male writers
Physicians from Paris
Singers from Paris