Alfred Delvau
Alfred Delvau (* 1825 in Paris ; † May 3, 1869 there ) was a French writer .
Life
Alfred Delvau was the secretary of the Minister of the Interior of France Alexandre Ledru-Rollin in 1848 .
As a writer, he began in 1850 with the one-act comedy Le roué innocent , he was followed by a series of different types of works, such as: Histoire de la révolution de Février (1850), Les murailles révolutionnaires (a collection of election programs, advertisements, decrees and other last Republic 1851, 2 volumes), Au bord de la Bièvre (1854), Histoire de la campagne d'Italie, etc. (1859), Les Cythères parisiennes, histoire anecdotique des bals, etc. (1864) and Dictionnaire de la langue verte (1865), a work that made particular noise because it was largely borrowed from Lorédan Larchey's Excentricités du langage francais , published a few years earlier .
He also wrote: Le fumier d'Ennius (1863), a biography of Gérards de Nerval (1865), Histoire anecdotique des barrières de Paris (1865), Les lions du jour (pictures from Paris 1866), Henri Murger et la Bohème (1866 ), Les sonneurs de sonnet, 1540-1866 (1867) and others.
He also published the Bibliothèque bleue (1859–60, 3 volumes) and the Collection des romans de chevalerie, mis en prose francaise modern (1869, 4 volumes). His specifically Parisian writings, which cannot be denied lasting cultural and historical value, were in great demand in the original editions.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delvau, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1869 |
| Place of death | Paris |