Leon Gozlan

Leon Gozlan , born with Marseilles on September 1st 1803 and died in Paris on September 1st 1866, is a writer French.

Wire of a rich person ruined ship-owner, Gozlan gives up his studies to launch out in the maritime adventure. He travels in Africa, with the Senegal (its travel souvenirs are consigned in the news to have wanted to imitate Robinson ) and he finds chronicler in Paris with the newspaper Green-Green thanks to his friend and compatriot the Méry lawyer.

Leon Gozlan especially remained famous for his deliver-memory on Honore de Balzac: Balzac in slippers (1856). In the review of the Primary of June 1931, to introduce the presentation of a republication of the Emotions of Polydore Marasquin (1857), appeared under the title: Polydore Marasquin with the kingdom of the monkeys , Régis Messac presents Gozlan as “ that which was the secretary of Balzac. Without having , he, say as much originality than its Master, it was a rather considerable writer. He had natural gifts and much of trade. If it left certain risen pages, it left of them others, alert and gouailleuses, which would deserve to be read again. Polydore Marasquin belongs to this second category. ”

Its sharp and light spirit, its chronicles, make it appreciate its fellow-members. It succeeds Balzac with the presidency of the Société of the men of letters and it chairs also the Société of the authors and dramatic type-setters founded in 1777 by Beaumarchais. It is also tested with the Théâtre with dramas and comedies, of which Rain and the good weather , created with the French Théâtre in 1861, and Tempête in water glass (1849). One still owes him an excellent monographic series entitled Châteaux of France , appeared in two volumes under the title Tourelles in 1839.

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