Louis-Léonard de Loménie (December 3rd 1815 with Saint-Yrieix-the-Pole - April 2nd 1878 with Paris) is a man of letters and essay writer French.

He is professor of French literature to the Collège de France in 1862, then with the Polytechnic school, and writer with the Revue of the Two Worlds . He is elected member of the French Academy in 1871.

A great number of its articles was joined together in ten volumes of its Galerie of the famous contemporaries . Louis de Loménie is known especially for his Beaumarchais , of which it also published complete works.

Works

• Gallery of the famous contemporaries, by a man of nothing (10 volumes, 1840-47)
• Lessons literature at the Collège de France (1845-64)
• Beaumarchais and its time: studies on the company in France at the XVIIIe century according to new documents 2 volumes, 1855) Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1970. Text on line: * the Countess of Rochefort and her friends: studies on manners in France at the XVIIIe century, with new documents (1870) Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1971.
• the Mirabeau, new studies on the French company at the XVIIIe century (2 volumes, 1870-79) Followed of one 2nd part continued by his/her son, Charles de Loménie (3 volumes, 1879-91)
• historical Drafts and arts persons (1879)

External bond

• Biographical note of the French Academy