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• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

COMTE DE ARMAND AUGUSTIN See also:

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

JOSEPH See also:

• MARIE

MARIE FERRARD See also:

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

PONTMARTIN (1811-1890)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French critic and See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of letters, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• AVIGNON

Avignon (See also:

• VAUCLUSE

Vaucluse) on the 16th of See also:

• JULY

July 1811 . Imbued by See also:

• FAMILY

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 See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation . See also:

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

Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in See also:

• VOLUME

volume See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

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 See also:

• LES

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 See also:

• 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 the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1890 . See Hatzfeld and See also:

• MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN (1831-1905)

Meunier, Les Critiques litteraires du XIXe siecle (1894) .