Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol

Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (born August 8, 1829 in Paris , † July 20, 1870 in Washington, DC ) was a French journalist and author. In 1865 he became a member of the Académie française .

Life

The illegitimate son of the actress Anne-Catherine-Lucinde Prévost-Paradol and the writer Léon Halévy (who later adopted him ) studied at the École normal supérieure and had to give up his studies after his protests against the coup d'état of 1851 . Then through the intercession of his old teachers he got a professorship for French literature in Aix-en-Provence , which he gave up for a journalistic career. He wrote for the Journal des débats and the Journal de Genève , always in opposition to the Second Empire , which is why he was imprisoned. In 1865, his admission to the Académie française on the vacated place of Jean-Jacques Ampère caused a scandal because of his little literary work and his youth. In the same year he published one of the most important writings of the Orléanists with his book La France nouvelle . Prévost-Paradol repeatedly predicted Germany's rise to a world power and warned that France was in danger of falling behind its neighboring country. In 1870 he was after the fall of Napoleon III, whom he fought for life . Appointed envoy to Washington by the government of Émile Ollivier . When hearing the news from just begun French German War was, he committed with a gun suicide .

Publications (selection)

  • Du rôle de la famille dans l'éducation (1857)
  • Quelques pages d'histoire contemporaine. Lettres politiques (1862–66, 4 vol .; 2nd ed. 1872, 2 vol.)
  • Études sur les moralistes français (1865, 3rd edition 1873)
  • La France nouvelle (1868, new edition 1876).

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Prévost-Paradol, Lucien-Anatole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1870
Place of death Washington, DC