Paul Ginisty (4 April 1855 – 5 March 1932) was a French writer, columnist and journalist.
A regular columnist at ''
Gil Blas
''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of G ...
'', he met
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...
who would dedicate him his
short story
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'. From 1896 to 1906, he was
theatre manager
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for the
Théâtre de l'Odéon, then became an inspector of
monuments historiques
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.
[Volume ''Maupassant, contes et nouvelles'', page 1450, ]Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
The ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'' (, "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the c ...
.
Selected bibliography
*1881: ''Les Idylles parisiennes'',
text onlineat
Gallica).
*1883: ''Les Rastaquouères : études parisiennes'',
text onlineat
Gallica).
*1884: ''L'Amour à trois'', foreword by Guy de Maupassant.
*1884: ''La Seconde Nuit, roman bouffe'',
text onlineat
Gallica).
*1888: ''Le Dieu bibelot'', publisher A-Dupret
*1901: ''La Marquise de Sade''
*1903: ''Vers la bonté'', frontispice et fleurons by , hors-texte de Paul Steck, Paris, Joanin & Cie
*1907: ''Mémoires d'un danseuse de corde :
Mme Saqui (1786-1866)'',
text onlineat
Gallica).
*1914: ''Mémoires et souvenirs de comédiennes XVIIIe
*1922: ''Anthologie du journalisme du XVIIe siècle à nos jours''
*1923: ''Les Nids d'aigles''
*1925: ''Les Anciens Boulevards''
*1929: ''
Eugène Sue
Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (; 26 January 18043 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated ''The Mysteries of Paris'', which ...
''
*1930: ''Souvenirs de journalisme et de théâtre'',
text onlineat
Gallica).
References
External links
Notice d'autoritésur le site de la
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Writers from Paris
1855 births
1932 deaths
20th-century French writers
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
20th-century French journalists
French theatre managers and producers
19th-century French male writers
20th-century French male writers