Xavier de Montépin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Xavier de Montépin

French novelist

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1823

Place of Birth: Apremont, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1902

Profession: writer, playwright, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin (10 March 1823 in Apremont, Haute-Saône – 30 April 1902 in Paris) was a popular French novelist.The author of serialised novels (feuilletons) and popular plays, he is best known for the 19th-Century best-seller, La Porteuse de pain (The Bread Peddler), which was first published in Le Petit Journal, from 1884 to 1889, and underwent many adaptations for theatre, film and television. Le Médecin des pauvres (Physician to the Poor), appeared in 1861 and was the subject of a plagiarism suit by author Louis-Étienne Jousserandot.
Although the evidence was strongly in favour of Jousserandot, neither party prevailed and both parties were ordered to pay the court costs. Les Filles de plâtre (The Daughters of the Plasterer), appearing in 1855, was condemned as obscene and Perrin was tried and sentenced to three months in prison and a fine of 500 Francs.