Louis Amédée Achard

Amédée Achard (* April 19, 1814 in Marseille, † March 24, 1875 in Paris) was a French journalist and writer.

Life and work

Amédée Achard came with his family to Algeria, where he earned later as a salesman for a living. Later, he was also in Algeria, partner of an agricultural enterprise.

Achard returned to France and settled from 1838 as a feature writer settled in Paris. At the same time he was able to publish his Lettres parisiennes, which he had written under the pseudonym of "Grimm " (a tribute to the writer Friedrich Melchior Grimm).

At the time of the February Revolution of 1848 Achard was also politically active; He wrote, inter alia, some revolutionary pamphlets. As a writer he was long connected to the conservative royalist camp. Later, he turned back to the more entertainment novel. In this case, inter alia, also by audiences and critics alike acclaimed historical portraits Nieces de Mazarin arose.

At the age of 61 years the writer Amédée died on 24 March 1875 in Paris and found in the Père Lachaise (Dept. 85) his final resting place. On behalf of the Société des gens de lettres and the Société des auteurs dramatiques the sculptor Louis Charles Janson (1823-1881) created the grave stone.

Works (selection)

  • Noble and peasant. In: Gustav Kühne (ed. ): Three Novellas. Reichenbach Verlag, Leipzig 1850.
  • Yerta Slovoda. Roman ( Yerta Slovoda, 1867). Hard life, Vienna 1868.
  • Royal Hunt. Historical novel from the time of Louis XIV (La chasse royal, 1849/50, 7 vols ). Hard life, Pest 1861 ( 6 vols ).
  • The hunt for the ideal. Roman ( La chasse à l' ideal, 1867). Hard life, Vienna 1868.
  • Belle- Rose ( Belle Rose, 1847, 5 vols ). Hard life, Pest 1851 (4 vols )
  • Les Petits - fils de Lovelace. Paris 1854 ( 3 vols ).
  • Marcelle. Un roman. Paris 1868.
  • Les Petits Filles d'Eve. Paris 1877.
  • La robe de Nessus. Paris 1854.
  • The invalids. Comedy ( invalid L', 1872 ) in an Act. Publisher Neumann - Moser, Berlin 1873.
  • At the window. Schwank in an elevator (par les fenêtres, 1851). Hayn, Berlin, 1854.
  • Travel memories. Comedy in one act ( Souvenirs de voyage, 1850). Michaelson Verlag, Berlin 1853.
  • Un mois en Espagne. Paris 1847.
  • Récits d'un soldat. Une armée prisonnière; une campagne devant Paris. Paris, 1871.
  • Montebello, Magenta, Marignan. Lettres d'Italie. Paris 1859.
  • Souvenirs de la Forêt Noire. Paris 1880.
  • Nieces de Mazarin. Paris 1878.
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