Louis Marie Prudhomme

Louis Marie Prudhomme (born with Lyon in 1752 - died with Paris the April 20th 1830) is a French journalist.

Clerk bookseller with Lyon, then with Paris, Prudhomme settles with Meaux, as bookbinder. Returned with Paris, it is several times stopped for its writings: between 1787 and 1789, it would have written 1500 lampoons. Among them, one notes a Résumé general, or Extracted the books of capacities, instructions, requests or complaints given by various bailliages, sénéchaussés and country of State of the kingdom , written in collaboration with Laurent de Mezières and Jean Rousseau and published in three volumes in 1789, if violent one that it is seized by the police force.

As of the July 12th 1789, and this until the February 28th 1794, it publishes a newspaper, the Revolutions of Paris , whose principal writer is Elisee Loustalot, with Sylvain Maréchal, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and Fabre d' Églantine, and who is a great success. In June 1793, a time imprisoned like royalist, it moves away from Paris and the political life.

In 1797, it publishes the general and impartial History errors, faults and crimes committed during the French revolution (6 volumes), work seized by the police force of the Directoire. Then, in June - October 1799, it publishes a daily newspaper, the Traveller (105 numbers between the 1st Messidor An VII and the 11 Vendémiaire An VIII).

In 1799, Prudhomme becomes director of the hospitals of Paris, function to which it joint trades of printer and publisher and writer-compiler.

Hostile with the Empire, it accommodates the Restauration favorably and publishes in 1825 Europe tormented by the Revolution of France, shaken by eighteen years of fatal walks of Napoleon Bonaparte , in two volumes.

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