Armand de Pontmartin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Armand de Pontmartin

French journalist, literary critic, writer and politician

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1811

Place of Birth: Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1890

Profession: writer, politician, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Armand Augustin Joseph Marie Ferrard, Comte de Pontmartin (1811-1890) was a French journalist, critic and man of letters. Pontmartin was born at Avignon (Vaucluse), France, on 16 July 1811.
A Legitimist sympathizer, he began his career by attacking the Encyclopédistes and their successors.
In the Assemblée nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation.Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: Contes et reveries d'un planteur de choux (1845); Causeries du samedi (1857-1860); Nouveaux samedis (1865-1881), &c.
But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme.
Charbonneau (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at Avignon on 29 March 1890.