Édouard Magnien


Marie Édouard Magnien was a 19th-century French intellectual.

Biography

Magnien was born in Montfort-l'Amaury, the son of Jacques Magnien, a lawyer in Parliament, and Justine Anastasie Vallon. He is Stéphane Mallarmé's great-great-cousin. 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 by Eugène Sue and Ferdinand de Villeneuve.
A founding member of the Société des Sciences naturelle, he resigned in 1864.
He died in Paris.

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