Charles Monselet

Charles Monselet (* April 30, 1825 in Nantes, † March 18, 1888 ) was a French writer, journalist, poet and librettist.

Monselet worked as a columnist for the Figaro, the Journal du Matin, Pays and moons Illustrée. He was known as an ironic portrait painter of his contemporaries and earned with works such as the six-volume almanac of gourmands and the Lettres gourmandes, the Ode au Cochon and the Sonnet de l' asperge the reputation of the roi des gastronomes. In 1858 he founded the weekly newspaper Le Gourmet, for which he worked as a journalist.

In works such as Les Ruines de Paris and Figures parisiennes he presented the Paris of his time, and his lorgnette Littéraire (1857 ) is considered a unique example of the Parisian literary scene of the 19th century. He wrote novels and short stories, parodies and pastiches, poems, reviews and plays and was a major librettist.

Writings

• La lorgnette littéraire. Dictionnaire des grands auteurs et des petits de mon temps, Auguste Poulet - Malassis et Eugène de Broise, Paris, 1857

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• Frenchman
• Born in 1825
• Died in 1888
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