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 The grave of Delphine Gay and Émile de Girardin at Montmarte Cimetière, Paris. Picture by Androom (18 May 2005) |
Girardin, Émile de |
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BORN 22 Jun 1806, Paris - DIED 27 Apr 1881, Paris GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Montmartre Cimetière (division 12) |
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Bastard son of General Alexandre de Girardin and of Madame Dupuy,
who was the wife of a Parisian advocate. In 1827 he published
his first novel "Émile", which dealt with his own birth and
life. He started working as a journalist and initiated several
publications of his own. His "Journal des connaissances" had
120.000 subscribers and his "Almanack de France" (1834) sold
very well. In 1831 he had married Delphine Gay, herself a literary
celebrity who wrote poetry, novels and plays. His cheap conservative paper La Presse (started in 1836) resulted in several conflicts and in a duel he killed Armand Carrel, the editor of the paper National. De Girardin was a member of several parliaments (1834-1851) and switched sides often. He was strongly in favour of the election of Louis Napoleon, but later he was violently opposed to him. In later years he would also attack MacMahon. After he sold La Presse in 1856 and restarted it in 1862, but the momentum had gone and he started the paper "La Liberté" (1866-1870). He was in favour of Napoleon III's liberal empire, but soon advocated the war against Prussia. After the death of his first wife Delphine in 1855 he married Josephine Brunold, countess of Tieffenbach. He divorced her in 1872. Family • Wife: Gay, Delphine Sources • Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909 |
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The grave of Delphine Gay and Émile de Girardin at Montmarte Cimetière, Paris. Picture by Androom (18 May 2005) |
