Maurice Tourneux (12 July 1849 – 13 January 1917) was a French man of letters and bibliographer .
4-616: The son of the artist and author J.F.E. Tourneux , he was born in Paris. He began his career as a bibliographer by collaborating in new editions of the Supercheries littéraires of Joseph Quérard and the Dictionnaire des anonymes of Antoine Barbier . His most important bibliographical work was the Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la Révolution française (3 vols. 1890–1901), which
8-485: Was a French bibliographer . He was born at Rennes , where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the first volumes of his great work, La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, &c. (14 vols., 1826–1842). This bibliography dealt with the 18th and early 19th centuries, and he
12-692: Was crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions . This valuable work serves as a guide for the history of the city beyond the limits of the Revolution . His other works include bibliographies of Prosper Mérimée (1876), of Théophile Gautier (1876), of the brothers de Goncourt (1897) and others; also editions of FM Grimm 's Correspondance littéraire , of Diderot 's Neveu de Rameau (1884), of Montesquieu 's Lettres persanes ( Persian Letters , 1886), etc. Attribution: Joseph Marie Qu%C3%A9rard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865)
16-566: Was enabled to complete it by a government subsidy granted by Guizot in 1830, and using the assistance of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky . His final volume of contemporary French literature, with which he hoped to complete his work, was cancelled by his publisher, the firm of Didot, without a kill fee . Didot then gave his Littérature française contemporaine to the bibliographers Ch. Louandre and F. Bourquelot. Financially ruined and without an income, Quérard avenged himself by pointing out
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