Louis-François L'Héritier, also known under the name L'Héritier de l'Ain (30 May 1788Date given by Roger Pierrot in his critical study about Honoré de Balzac's ''Correspondance'', published in 1960 by Garnier (p. 766). Joseph-Marie Quérard, ''Les Supercheries littéraires dévoilées'', vol.5, 1853, (p. 251-252)
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indicates 30 May 1790 and provides 13 July 1852 for death date. The authority records give the date 1789 without further specification, taking the information from Vapereau. – 14 July 1852) was a 19th-century French playwright, essayist, novelist and journalist. He collaborated on various liberal newspapers and wrote several novels with Henri Ducor. He also realized translations such as ''Histoire des révolutions des Pays-Bas'' by Friedrich von Schiller (1833) or ''Les Veillées allemandes, chroniques, contes, traditions et croyances populaires'' by

Jacob Grimm Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the ''Deutsch ...

and

Wilhelm Grimm Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 178616 December 1859) was a German author, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Life and work Wilhelm was born in February 1 ...

(1838).

Works

*1811: ''Description d'un instrument servant à faciliter le tracé des tranchées dans l'attaque des places'' *1813: ''Épître à Chénier'' *1814: ''Le Diable boiteux à Paris'', one-act comédie épisodique, mingled with

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s *1818: ''Les Veillées d'une captive'', with Antony Béraud and Auguste Imbert *1819: ''Lettres à David, sur le Salon de 1819'', with Émile Deschamps and

Henri de Latouche Hyacinthe-Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de Latouche, commonly known as Henri de Latouche (2 February 1785 – 9 March 1851) was a French poet and novelist known for his publication of André Chénier and early encouragement of George Sand. (His ...

, engraving by

Ambroise Tardieu Ambroise Tardieu (2 March 1788, in Paris – 17 January 1841, in Paris) was a France, French cartography, cartographer and engraving, engraver, and is celebrated for his version of John Arrowsmith (cartographer), John Arrowsmith's 1806 map of ...

*1819: ''Le Champ-d'Asile'', topographical and historical picture of Texas *1818–1822
''Les Fastes de la gloire ou les Braves recommandés à la postérité, monument élevé aux défenseurs de la Patrie, par une Société d'hommes de lettres et de militaires''
5 vols. *1821: ''Précis, ou Histoire abrégée des guerres de la Révolution française, depuis 1792 jusqu'à 1815'', avec Pierre-François Tissot *1822: ''Dernières Lettres de deux amants de Barcelone'', with

*1828: ''Le Convoi de Louis XIV, scène historique inédite'' *1828–1829 ''Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de sûreté jusqu'en 1827, aujourd'hui propriétaire et fabricant de papiers à Saint-Mandé'', 4 vols. *1828–1830: ''Mémoires et souvenirs d'un Pair de France'', 4 vols. *1829: ''Les Malheurs d'une libérée''. *1829: '' Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Révolution française, par Sanson, exécuteur des arrêts criminels pendant la Révolution'', with

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly ; ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is ...

*1835: ''Aventures d'un marin de la Garde impériale, prisonnier de guerre sur les pontons espagnols, dans l'île de Cabrèra et en Russie'', novel, with Ducor *1833: ''La République, histoire de la famille Clairvent'', 2 vols. *1835: ''Le Prêche et la Messe, roman chronique des guerres de religion pendant le XVI'', 2 vols. *1838: ''Le roi règne et peut gouverner'' *1841: ''De la Constitution de la Chambre des Pairs'' *1841–1843: ''Plutarque drôlatique, vie publique et grotesque des illustres de ce temps-ci'' *1844: ''Le Médecin de soi-même, moyen sûr et peu coûteux de se préserver et de se guérir de toutes les maladies'' *1845: ''Le Pharmacien de soi-même, complément indispensable du « Médecin de soi-même » et correctif nécessaire de la médication de M. Raspail, contenant plus de 750 recettes ou formules... ou Petite Pharmacopée populaire à l'usage des villes et villages et des praticiens de campagne'' *1868: ''Les Mystères de la vie du monde, du demi-monde et du quart de monde, ou La vie d'aujourd'hui'', novel

Bibliography

Joseph-Marie Quérard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital cit ...

, ''Les Supercheries littéraires dévoilées'', vol.5, 1853,
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* Antoine-Alexandre Barbier, Olivier Alexandre Barbier, Paul Billiard, ''Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes'', 1874, *

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 ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', vol.2, 1876 * Roger Pierrot, ''Correspondance d'Honoré de Balzac'', 1960,

References

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