COMTE DE ARMAND AUGUSTIN

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• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH

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• MARIE

MARIE FERRARD

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

PONTMARTIN (1811-1890)  , French critic and man of letters, was born at 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 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 of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers . Pontmartin died at Avignon on the 29th of March 1890 . See Hatzfeld and Meunier, Les Critiques litteraires du XIXe siecle (1894) .