ABOUT, EDMOND. - Journalist and novelist, b. at Dieuze, 14 Feb. 1828, d. at Paris, 16 Jan. 1885. For his ideas, his sentiments and his biting, polemical qualities as a writer, he was called the "nephew of Voltaire." A Bonapartist, confidential informant of Napoleon III, he was later an Orleanist and finally a republican. After a stay in Rome, he printed in BelgiumLa Question romaine (1859), which he partly reworked into Rome contemporaine (1860). There are the usual tirades against the temporal power and Roman corruption, slanderous and irreverent assertions against Pius IX and Antonelli, and spicy and malicious anecdotes.
What the quality of his work as a narrator is in general is proved by the obscene novel Madelon (1863).
Casnati, Francesco. “About, edmond.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 113. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/about-edmond.
MLA
Casnati, Francesco. “About, edmond.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 113. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/about-edmond.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_about_edmond,
author = {Casnati, Francesco},
title = {About, edmond},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {113},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/about-edmond}
}
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