Émile Regnault

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Émile Regnault (* 1811 in Sancerre ; † 1863 ) was a French doctor, author and intellectual who belonged to the circle of friends of George Sand and Honoré de Balzac in the 1830s and 40s .

Life

Émile Regnault came from Moulins in the Allier department and studied medicine in Paris in the 1830s. During this time he belonged to the circle of friends of François Buloz (1803–1877) and Jules Sandeau , through whom he met Honoré de Balzac, with whom he was also in correspondence. He worked on Balzac's novels Le vicaire des Ardennes (1836) and L'excommunie . His person was a model for certain characters in La Comédie humaine such as the doctor Horace Bianchon in César Birotteau(1837). He also attended George Sand's literary salon in the 1830s. He worked for Balzac's short-lived magazine Chroniques de Paris and was in charge of the Hippolyte Souverain edition of Balzac's early work ( Oeuvres completes Horace de Saint-Aubin ) around 1840 .

In later years Regnault worked as a doctor in the thermal station of Bourbon-l'Archambault , where he carried out studies and initiated modernization projects.

Works (selection)

  • (Emile) Regnault: La dauphine Marie-Josephe de Saxe, mere de Louis XVI. Paris Lecoffre 1875

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dans les pas de la famille d'Émile Regnault
  2. ^ Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France. 1898, page 452
  3. ↑ René Bouvier, Edouard Maynial: Les comptes dramatiques de Balzac . 1938, p. 210.
  4. ^ André Maurois: Prometheus or the life of Balzac . Düsseldorf, Econ Verlag, 1966 p. 292.
  5. ↑ Jean René Derré, civilization chrétienne: approche historique d'une idéologie XVIIIe-XXe siècle . 1975.
  6. ^ Georges Vicaire: Manuel De L'amateur de Livres du XIXème.
personal data
SURNAME Regnault, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Sancerre
DATE OF DEATH 1863