Alphonse de Calonne

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Portrait de Monsieur de Calonne, by Gustave Ricard

Alphonse de Calonne (17 May 1818 – 15 January 1902) was a French man of letters and literary critic.

Biography

Alphonse de Calonne was born at Béthune in the French Empire. A legitimist, he opposed the Second Republic by contributing to royalist journals.

With Xavier de Montépin, he wrote Trois journées de février et Gouvernement provisoire, histoire anecdotique de ses membres. In 1852, he founded the Revue contemporaine (which eventually sided with Napoleon III) and translated Ivan Turgenev. He wrote Bérangère (1852), La Minerve de Phidias restaurée (1855), Les Fais de la guerre (1856), Rattazzi et la crise italienne (1862), Constitution de l'Allemagne du Nord (1870) and Le Nouvel Opéra (1875).

He also wrote short stories and pamphlets under the name of Alphonse de Bernard, Le Portrait de la marquise, La Ferme de moines, Les Épreuves d'une héritière, De la défense des côtes en Angleterre (1859), La Pologne devant les conséquences du traité de Vienne (1861), and others. Under the pseudonym of Toison d'Or, he published Noblesse de contrebande, which dealt with genealogy.

External links

• Works by Alphonse de Calonne at Gallica
• Works by Alphonse de Calonne at Open Library