Albert Patin de La Fizelière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Patin de La Fizelière

French writer

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1819

Place of Birth: Marly, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1878

Profession: historian, biographer, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Albert de La Fizelière (in full Albert-André Patin de La Fizelière; pen-name Ludovic de Marsay, see box to the right) (b.
7 August 1819 in Marly; d.
11 February 1878 in Paris) was a French littérateur, writer on electoral and constitutional law, art critic, and historian, known for his friendship with Champfleury and for his ties to the Café Guerbois circle.
He was described by Edmond Antoine Poinsot (Georges d'Heylli; 1833–1902) as one "of the small number of our learned men who are both spiritual and without pedantry".
He was a friend of Baudelaire and published the first bibliography of the latter a year after his death. To the general public he is known for his dictum that "the public generally prefers a gibe to a word and a buffoon to a comedian" (le public préfère généralement le lazzi au mot et la queue-rouge au comédien), which had been anthologized in dictionaries of French quotations from 1840 onwards.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat