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journalist novelist playwright writer
After a short stay near Algiers, where he supervised a farm, he went to Toulouse, and then Marseille, where he became a journalist and wrote for the Sémaphore. He moved to Paris, where he wrote for the Vert-Vert, the Entracte, the Charivari, and the Époque. Achard wrote extensively for the Époque, even writing for his colleagues when they lacked inspiration.
He then collaborated in the satirical journal Le Pamphlet, and was gravely wounded in a duel with a man named Fiorentino, whom he had defamed.
While still convalescent, he left for Italy with the French Army to cover the war for the Journal des Débats. Achard was a prolific writer
In addition to his journalism, he wrote about thirty plays and about forty books He is known today primarily for his cloak and dagger novels.
Some incorrectly claim that he was the originator of the term (Ponson du Terrail used the term a little before him), but he did write a novel called la Cape et l"Épée (The Cloak and Dagger) in 1875.
Achard also wrote many books on manners. He died, aged 60, in Paris.
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
(Lang:- French, Pages 165. Reprinted in 2013 with the help...)