Édouard Fournier

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Édouard Fournier (15 June 1819, Orléans – 10 May 1880, Paris) was a French homme de lettres, playwright, historian, bibliographer and librarian.

Born into a locksmiths artist family, he studied at the Collège d'Orléans then devoted entirely to literary work. After a first play in 1841, and some feuilletons published in the newspaper Le Loiret in 1842, he published a large number of historical, literary, literature and theater studies. He published numerous authors while continuing to write for the stage. He also contributed a great number of articles to the Encyclopédie universelle, the Supplément du Dictionnaire de la conversation, the Historie des villes de France, Le Moniteur universel, Le Constitutionnel, L'Illustration, La Revue française, Le Théâtre, whose chief editor he was from 1853 to 1855, La Patrie, where he held a Parisian theatrical chronicle from 1856, then theatrical, the Revue des provinces, of which he was director from 1863 to 1866. In 1872, he was appointed a librarian at the Interior Ministry.

• Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, vol. VIII, 1872, (p. 682–683).
• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, vol. I, 1858, (p. 688).
• Adolphe Bitard, Dictionnaire général de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère, 1878, (p. 482–483).

• Édouard Fournier on data.bnf.fr