Louis Lurine


Louis Lurine was a 19th-century French homme de lettres, journalist, playwright, novelist and historian.

Biography

Born in Spain from French parents, he was raised in Paris and Bordeaux. He started writing at an early age, collaborated to some vaudevilles and was attached to several newspapers in the provinces. He trained Félix Solar when he was a beginner.
Back to Paris in 1840, he contributed feuilletons and short stories to the Courrier français, Le National and Le Siècle. For several years, he worked to books dedicated to the history of Paris while continuing his theatrical career. He became editor of the political journal La Séance in 1848 and of the theatrical magazine La Comédie in 1853. He also was president of the Société des gens de lettres.
He was managing director of the Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1858 until his death.

Main publications

  • Le Cauchemar politique, satirical pamphlet
  • Physiologie du vin de Champagne, par deux buveurs d’eau, with Bouvier
  • Les Rues de Paris. Paris ancien et moderne, 1844 : origines, histoire, monuments, costumes, mœurs, chroniques et traditions, illustrated with 300 drawings by Grandville, Daumier, etc.
  • Histoire de Napoléon, racontée aux enfants petits et grands
  • Les Environs de Paris, paysage, histoire, monuments, mœurs, chroniques et traditions, under the direction of Charles Nodier and Louis Lurine, illustrated with 200 drawings
  • Les Prisons de Paris, histoire, types, mœurs, mystères, with Maurice Alhoy
  • La Vierge du travail
  • Les Couvents, with Alphonse Brot, illustrated by Henri Baron, Tony Johannot, François-Louis Français and Célestin Nanteuil
  • Histoire poétique et politique de M. de Lamartine
  • Histoire secrète et publique de la police ancienne et moderne
  • Le Treizième Arrondissement de Paris, novel
  • Le Train de Bordeaux, voyage dans le passé, short stories
  • Ici l’on aime. Le Cœur de Mignon. Le Secret des aumônes. L’Âme du violon. Le Chasseur d’ombres. La Véritable Mort de Vatel. Le Mouchoir de Bérénice. Pierrot. La Guerre des Dieux. L’Avocat. L’Oreiller. Le Cœur et l’esprit. Le Club des mendiants. Le Prédicateur. Le Paratonnerre. Héro et Léandre, short stories
  • Le Mannequin russe, pamphlet
  • Le Palais-royal
  • Éloge de Balzac
  • Voyage dans le passé
;Theatre

Honours