Career
Imbued by family tradition with legitimist sympathies, he began by attacking the followers of the encyclopaedists 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 Madame
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.