Louis-François-Marie Bellin of Liborlière

Louis-François-Marie (sometimes Leon-François-Marie ) Bellin of Liborlière (1774 - 1847) is a French writer, authors of Romance Gothics.

During the Revolution

Educated like people of its row, it had to stop its studies at the time of the French revolution and to follow his father in exile to the 17 years age. This last wished to join the princes on the the Rhine in order to form an army to defend the country and “to saber the rabble”.

With the autumn of 1791, they settle with Coblentz and are useful in the same company. But at the conclusion of the Battle of Valmy, they must put a term at their engagement. The father of Louis-François-Marie dies one week later. It is not known if this death made following wounds received on the battle field; if one wanted to regain France and to return in possession of his goods, it was preferable not to acknowledge to have taken the weapons against the Republic. The son leaves the army, settles with Hamburg, then with Brunswick where it publishes Célestine, or Husbands without the being in 1798 and the English Night in 1799.

Under the First Empire

When the First Consul Bonaparte proclaims in the An VIII a general amnesty for the emigrants, Bellin of Liborlière returns to France to continue its literary work there. In 1800, it publishes Anna Grenwil and Voyage in the boudoir of Pauline .

After long and tiresome administrative approaches, it ends up obtaining its radiation of the lists of warned citizens of emigration. It thus returns in possession of its inheritance, and, benefitting from friendships of the Ancien Mode, inter alia that of the marquis de Fontanes, it is made appoint inspector of academy, then vice-chancellor of the university of Poitiers.

With this intention, it had to lend oath and “to swear obedience with the constitutions of the Empire and fidelity to the Emperor '. On this occasion he wrote an ode, in 1803:

But our grateful hand

to pay homage to its benefits

Wants every year on the incipient bark

Graver: Bonaparte and peace.

Under the Restoration

In 1814, Bellin of Libordière publishes another ode, entitled regenerated France , of very an other tone:

Hello révérée family

Noble descendants of the Louis!

Enfin unfortunate France

Sees all its disappeared evils.

Hello Bourbons of which it absence

the FIT to groan a long time our heart;

You return and in France

With you returns happiness.

He assumed with serious, but not without a certain severity towards the personnel sympathizers of the Revolution, his load of vice-chancellor, and died in 1847 at the 73 years age, “in the faith and the Catholic religion, having preserved under the ices of old age the liveliness of youth and the strong intelligence of his ripe age”.

Works

; Novels

Célestine, or husbands without the being (4 volumes, 1798) Text in line 1 2 3 4
the English Night, or Adventures of Mr. Dabaud. Novel as there is too much of it. By the R.P. Spectoruini, Italian monk (1799). Republication: Editions Anacharsis, Toulouse, 2006.
Anna Grenwil, historical novel of the century of Cromwell (3 volumes, 1800)
Voyage in the boudoir of Pauline (1800)
Voyage of Mr. Candide son, with the country of Eldorado towards the end of the XVIIIe century, to serve of following the adventures of Mr. his Father (1803)

; Theater

the Partition, or Much of sorrow for nothing, comedy in 1 act and prose , Paris, Theater of the street of Louvois, April 19th, 1803
the Two Mischievous ones, comedy-light comedy in an act , Paris, Theater of the Light comedy, January 8th, 1810

; Varied

elementary Histoire of French monarchy, since Pharamond until the death of Louis XVI, with the use of the pupils (1827)
Vieux Memories of Poitiers of before 1789, followed special notes on the Large-Mouth and the old University of Poitiers (1846). Republication: D. Brissaud, Poitiers, 1983.

Sources

Cecile Pénichon, Leon François Marie Bellin of Libordière (1774-1847): vice-chancellor of the academy of Poitiers , Poitiers, 2000.
Maurice Levy, foreword of the English Night , Anacharsis Editions, Toulouse, 2006.

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