Édouard Fournier

Édouard Fournier (15 June 1819, Orléans – 10 May 1880, Paris) was a 19th-century French homme de lettres, playwright, historian, bibliographer and librarian.

Biography[]

Plate affixed on Édouard Fournier's Parisian home, at 13 rue des Saints-Pères.

Born into a locksmiths artist family, he studied at the Collège d'Orléans then devoted entirely to literary work. After a first play in 1841, and some feuilletons published in the newspaper Le Loiret in 1842, he published a large number of historical, literary, literature and theater studies. He published numerous authors while continuing to write for the stage. He also contributed a great number of articles to the Encyclopédie universelle, the Supplément du Dictionnaire de la conversation, the Historie des villes de France, Le Moniteur universel, Le Constitutionnel, L'Illustration, , Le Théâtre, whose chief editor he was from 1853 to 1855, La Patrie, where he held a Parisian theatrical chronicle from 1856, then theatrical, the Revue des provinces, of which he was director from 1863 to 1866. In 1872, he was appointed a librarian at the Interior Ministry.

Main publications[]

Sources[]

• Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, vol. VIII, 1872, (p. 682–683).
• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, vol. I, 1858, (p. 688).
• Adolphe Bitard, Dictionnaire général de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère, 1878, (p. 482–483).

External links[]

• Édouard Fournier on data.bnf.fr