PONTMARTIN, ARMAND AUGUSTIN JOSEPH MARIE FERRARD, COMTE DE (1811-1890)

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PONTMARTIN, ARMAND AUGUSTIN JOSEPH MARIE FERRARD, COMTE DE (1811-1890) ,

French

critic and man of letters, was

born

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

Avignon

AVIGNON

(Vaucluse) on the 16th of July 1811. Imbued by family tradition with legitimist sympathies, he began by attacking the followers of the encyclopaedists and their successors. In the Assemblee nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation. Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: Conies et reveries d'un planteur de choux (1845); Causeries du samedi (1857-186o); Nouveaux samedis (1865-1881), &c. But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at

Avignon

AVIGNON

on the 29th of

March

MARCH
MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in
French
appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to
beat
- BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)
the road with the
regular
- REGULAR
tread of a soldier: cf.
MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
MARCH, EARLS OF
FRANCIS
_ANDREW_1825_.html">MARCH,
FRANCIS
ANDREW (1825– )

1890.
See Hatzfeld and

Meunier

MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN (1831-1905)

, Les Critiques litteraires du XIXe siecle (1894).

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