Louis-Henri Boussenard
Louis-Henri Boussenard , born with Escrennes the October 4th 1847 and deceased the September 9th 1910, was a French author of novels of adventure, called of sound living the Rider Haggard French, but more known today in Eastern Europe (forty volumes of its works were published in imperial Russia in 1911) that in the French-speaking countries.
After studies of medicine, it is devoted to the writing. He travelled much in the French colonies (the government entrusts to him a scientific expedition in Guyana), especially in Africa. He was useful during the war of 1870 but was quickly captured by the Prussians, bitter experiment able to explain an undeniable nationalist feeling which meets in several of its novels. Some of its books carry the mark of prejudices against the British, which undoubtedly explains why it was little translated and is little known in the anglophone world.
Its tales and news appear in many newspapers such as Le Figaro and Small Parisian the . A first novel in 1880, the Round the world tour of a Paris urchin , is a great popular success.
“Between two voyages, it returns to the native land where it writes Romance on novels, majority appearing in serials before being published in bookstore. He walks his heroes throughout the world; he exposes them to all the dangers, but always made so that the good triumph and that the malicious one is punished: success is considerable. ”
Enthusiastic republican, it savagely testifies in his writings to a nationalist anti-allemande, anti-English vision (what explains why it was not published in the Anglo-Saxon countries) and colonialist. The fact that Boussenard made its military service during the war of 1870, where it was wounded, explains that all the enemies in its accounts are Germans.
The picaresque humor of the author opened out in his first books, Through Australia: The Ten Million red Opossum (1879), the Round the world tour of a Paris urchin (1880), Robinsons of Guyana (1882), and perilous Adventures of three French to the country of diamonds (1884, located in a mysterious cave under the Victoria falls).
Its work more known, the Captain Breakage-Neck (1901), proceeds during the Guerre of Boers. On the steps of Jules Verne, he writes some science-fiction novels like the Secrecies of Mr Synthèse (1888) and Ten thousand years in a block of ice (1890).
Author about forgotten today in his native land, Boussenard is a great success in Russia, where almost all its novels (forty volumes) were published and are available in bookstore.
His/her mother, Héloïse Launches, dies in 107 years, 23 years after her son.
Works on line
- the Round the world tour of a Paris urchin
- Terror in Macedonia
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