Léon Guérin (1807–1885) was a French writer, poet, and

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. Guérin started writing tales and

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under his

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, as well as the pen names ''Guérin-Dulion'' and ''Léonide de Mirbel''. In 1829, he published ''Chants Lyriques et Autres Essais Poétiques''. He then founded two children's newspapers, newspapers, the ''Journal des Enfants'', and later the ''Gazette des Enfants et des Jeunes Personnes''. Later in life, Guérin specialised as a historian, and became one of the historiographs of the

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in 1846.

Works

* ''Chronique du Café de Paris: Le Jeune Homme'', 1838 * ''Les Trois Fils du Capitaine: Voyage dans l'Amérique du Sud et aux Antilles'', 1841 * ''Voyages du Jeune Edmond au-delà du Gange et dans L'Empire Chinois'', 1841 * ''L'Élève de Marine: Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale'', 1841 * ''Le Tour du Monde, ou, Les Mille et Une Merveilles des Voyages'', 1842 * ''Les Voix Naïves: Contes Moraux Destinés à la Jeunesse'', 1843 * ''Histoire Maritime de France'', 1844 * ''Les Marins Illustres de la France'', 1845 * ''Les Jeunes Navigateurs: Autour du Monde'', 1845 * ''L'Europe, Histoire des Nations Européennes'', 1846 * ''Les Navigateurs français: Histoire des Navigations, Découvertes et Colonisations françaises'', Paris, 1846 * ''Histoire de la Marine Contemporaine: Depuis 1784 Jusqu'à 1848'', 1855 * ''Histoire de la Dernière Guerre de Russie (1853–1856) dans la Mer'', 1858

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* 1807 births 1885 deaths 19th-century French male writers 19th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers {{France-historian-stub