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Édouard Magnien

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Marie Édouard Magnien (Montfort-l'Amaury, 4 July 1795 – Versailles, after 1864) was a 19th-century French homme de lettres.

Biography

The son of a lawyer in Parliament, Stéphane Mallarmé's great-great-cousin,[1] a tutor in the Sarthe department, he is mostly known for his Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français in 1826 and his participation in the writing of the play Le Secret d'état (1831) by Eugène Sue and Ferdinand de Villeneuve.

A founding member of the Société des Sciences naturelle, he resigned in 1864.[2]

Works

  • 1821: L'Ode au sommeil, ode
  • 1826: Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français
  • 1831: Le Secret d'état, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Eugène Sue and Ferdinand de Villeneuve
  • 1836: Mortel, ange ou démon, 2 vols., collection of poems
  • 1836: Excursions en Espagne ou chroniques provinciales de la péninsule
  • 1841: Épître à un centenaire, 1841 [3]
  • 1851: Notice nécrologique sur M. Adolphe Veytard

Bibliography

  • Revue de l'Histoire de Versailles et de Seine-et-Oise, 1968, p. 27

References

  1. ^ Jean-Luc Steinmetz [fr], Stéphane Mallarmé: L'absolu au jour le jour, Fayard, p. 1826
  2. ^ Mémoires de la Société des sciences naturelles de Seine-et-Oise, Versailles, 1864, vol.8-11, p. 181
  3. ^ Play crowned by the Académie des Jeux floraux in 1841.