Louis Ulbach
Louis Ulbach (7 March 1822 – 16 April 1889) was a French writer.
Life
Ulbach was born at Troyes (Aube). He was encouraged to take up a literary career by Victor Hugo. He became dramatic critic of the Temps, and attracted attention by a series of satirical letters addressed to Le Figaro over the signature of “Ferragus,” and published separately in 1868.[1] As Ferragus, he called the novel Thérèse Raquin "putrid" in a long diatribe.[2] He edited the Revue de Paris until its suppression in 1858, and in 1868 he founded a paper, La Cloche, which was suppressed in 1869 for its hostility to the empire. Ulbach was imprisoned for six months, and when on his release he revived the paper he got into trouble both with the commune and the government, and was again imprisoned in 1871-1872. In 1878 he was made librarian of the arsenal, and died in Paris on 16 April 1889.[1]
Works
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- Gloriana, poems (1844)
- Lettres à Jacques Souffrant, ouvrier (1851)
- Philosophie maçonnique (1853)
- Argine Piquet (1853)
- L'Amour et la mort, short stories (1855)
- Suzanne Duchemin (1855)
- Écrivains et hommes de lettres: Voltaire et M. Nicolardot. Montaigne et M. Étienne Catalan. Stendhal. M. Hip. Castille. M. Flourens. M. Lanfrey. L'Académie et les académiciens. M. E. Pelletan. M. Gustave Planche. Gérard de Nerval. Le Parti catholique : MM. de Montalembert, de Falloux, Veuillot. Fléchier. Paul Delaroche. M. E. Quinet (1857)
- Les Roués sans le savoir, short stories (1857)
- Les Secrets du diable, short stories (1858)
- La Voix du sang (1858)
- Pauline Foucault (1859)
- Histoire d'une mère et de ses enfants. Madame Gottlieb (1859)
- L'Homme aux cinq louis d'or (1860)
- L'Île des rêves, aventures d'un Anglais qui s'ennuie, short stories (1860)
- Monsieur et Madame Fernel (1860)
- Françoise (1862)
- Le Mari d'Antoinette (1862)
- Causeries du dimanche (1863)
- Voyage autour de mon clocher. Histoire et histoires, short stories (1864)[3]
- Louise Tardy (1864)
- Mémoires d'un inconnu (1864)
- Le Parrain de Cendrillon (1865)
- Le Jardin du chanoine (1866)
- La Chauve-souris, sequel of Parrain de Cendrillon (1867)
- Les Parents coupables, mémoires d'un lycéen (1867)
- Le Roman de la bourgeoisie : La cocarde blanche (1814) (1868)
- Rapport sur les rapporteurs de M. Duruy (MM. de Sacy, Paul Féval, Théophile Gautier, E. Thierry) (1868)[citation needed]
- Nos contemporains:[3] Napoléon III. Lamartine. Le duc d'Aumale. Victor Hugo. Louis Blanc. Sainte-Beuve. Mazzini. George Sand. Thiers. Jules Grévy (1869–1871)
- Lettres de Ferragus (1869)
- Le Prince Bonifacio, short stories (1869)
- Le Sacrifice d'Aurélie (1873)
- Les Compagnons du Lion dormant : La Maison de la rue de l'Échaudé (1874)
- Les Compagnons du Lion dormant : La Ronde de nuit (1874)
- Les Cinq doigts de Birouk (1874)
- Le Secret de Mlle Chagnier, sequel of Cinq doigts de Birouk (1875)
- Aventures de trois grandes dames de la cour de Vienne, d'après Henriette von Paalzow (3 volumes, 1875–1876)[3]
- Le Baron américain, adapted from James de Mille (1876)
- Madame Gosselin (1877) (translated into English by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer)
- Mémoires d'un assassin : Cyrille (1877)
- Mémoires d'un assassin : Maxime (1877)
- Le Comte Orphée (1878)
- Guide sentimental de l'étranger dans Paris, par un Parisien (1878)
- Monsieur Paupe (1878)
- Simple amour, sequel of Monsieur Paupe (1878)
- Les Buveurs de poison : Noèle (1879)
- Les Buveurs de poison : La Fée verte (1879)[3]
- L'Enfant de la morte (1879)
- Le Château des Épines (1880)
- Le Crime de Martial, sequel of Château des Épines (1880)
- Réparation (1880)
- Le Tapis vert, after Mór Jókai (1880)
- Le Mariage de Pouchkine, after Mór Jókai, sequel of Tapis vert (1881)
- La Fleuriotte (1881)
- Le Marteau d'acier (1882) (translated into English as The Steel Hammer by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer)
- Quinze ans de bagne, a sequel of Marteau d'acier (1882) (translated into English as For Fifteen Years by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer)
- La Confession d'un abbé (1883)
- L'Homme au gardénia (1884)
- Autour de l'amour (1885)
- Almanach de Victor Hugo (1885)
- L'Espion des écoles, with 27 compositions of Carl Larsson (1885)
- Amants et maris (1886)
- L'Amour moderne (1886)
- Espagne et Portugal, notes et impressions (1886)
- Papa Fortin (1886)
- La Vie de Victor Hugo (1886)[3]
- La Maîtresse du général (1887)
- Les Bonnes Femmes (1887)
- La Csárdás, notes et impressions d'un Français en Autriche, en Hongrie, en Roumanie, en Angleterre, en Italie, en Suisse, en Belgique, en Hollande, en France (1888)
- Les Belles et les bêtes, études de physiologie comparée (1888)
- Mère et maîtresse (1888)
- Bobinette (1889)
Dramatic works
- Don Almanzo, opéra-bouffe in one act, with Eugène Labat, music by Renaud de Vilbac, Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique, 16 April 1858
- Le Doyen de Saint-Patrick, play in 5 acts, with Léon de Wailly, Paris, Théâtre impérial de l'Odéon, 20 November 1862
- Monsieur et Madame Fernel, comedy in 4 acts, with Henri Crisafulli, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 30 January 1864
References
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ulbach, Louis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 564.
- ^ Ferragus. "La littérature putride." Le Figaro. 23 January 1868.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
External links
- Works by Louis Ulbach at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Louis Ulbach at the Internet Archive
- Works by Louis Ulbach at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Categories:
- 1822 births
- 1889 deaths
- People from Troyes
- French short story writers
- French critics
- 19th-century French novelists
- French male novelists
- French male short story writers
- 19th-century short story writers
- 19th-century male writers
- 19th-century French journalists
- French male journalists
- 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights