Joseph-Alexis Walsh

Joseph-Alexis Walsh (25 April 1782 – 11 February 1860) was a French administrator, journalist and man of letters.

Biography

Joseph-Alexis Walsh was born in Saint-Georges-sur-Loire. He was the grandson of Antoine Walsh by his father and of François Jacques Walsh de Serrant by his mother.

Appointed inspector of the Bookshop in the departments of the West in 1810, Joseph de Walsh became commissioner of the king near the Mint of Nantes, then director of the posts, in Nantes, under the Restoration.

Devoting himself to letters and the press, author of various religious and political works, he contributed to La Mode, La Gazette de France and L'Union monarchique, and directed La Gazette de Normandie, L'Écho de la Jeune France, and the Encyclopédie Catholique. He played an important role in the legitimist press under the July monarchy.

He died in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

Private life

On December 7, 1803, he married Madeleine Pauline Bouhier de La Bréjolière (1779–1847). The couple had three sons:

• Edouard Walsh (1806–1884)

• Arthur Walsh (1808–1880)

• Olivier Edmond (1817–1883), chamberlain of Emperor Napoleon III, officer of the Legion of Honor (1865)

Works

• Lettres vendéennes, ou Correspondance de trois amis, en 1823 (1825)
• Lettres sur l'Angleterre ou Voyage dans la Grande-Bretagne en 1829 (1830)
• Mélanges. Feuilletons politiques et littéraires. Scènes contemporaines (1832)
• Explorations en Normandie (1835)
• Tableau des fêtes chrétiennes (1837)
• Journées mémorables de la Révolution française racontées par un père à ses fils, ou, Récit complet des événements qui se sont passés en France depuis 1787 jusqu'en 1804 (1839–40; 5 volumes)
• Souvenirs et impressions de voyage (1842)
• Le fratricide ou Gilles de Bretagne: chronique du Moyen-Age (1842)
• Souvenirs de cinquante ans (1845)
• Saint Louis et son siècle (1846)
• Tableau poétique des sacrements, augm. d'une lettre de notre Saint-Père le pape Pie IX (1852)
• Yvon le Breton, ou Souvenirs d'un soldat des armées catholiques et royales (1854)
• Les massacres de Septembre (1892)

External links

• Works by Joseph-Alexis Walsh at Gallica