LOUIS

See also:

• DESIRE

DESIRE

See also:

• LOUIS DESIRE VERON (1798—1867)
• VERON, PIERRE (1831—1900)

VERON (1798—1867)  , French publicist, was born at Paris on the 5th of April 1798 . In 1829 he founded the Revue de Paris, and from 1838 to 1852 was owner and director of the Constitutionnel, in which he published in Eugene Sue's Wandering Jew . It was also during Veron's direction and at his suggestion that Sainte-Beuve contributed the Causeries du lundi . From 1831—1835 he was director of the Paris Opera . In 1852 he was elected to the Corps Legislatif as an official candidate . He was the author of various books, of which the best known is Memoires d'un bourgeois de Paris (1853-1855) . He died in Paris on the 27th of September 1867 .