Background
Emmanuel-Adolphe was born at Paris on the 5th of February 1839, son of Alfred Stanislas Langlois des Essarts. His father (d. 1893) was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation.
Emmanuel-Adolphe was born at Paris on the 5th of February 1839, son of Alfred Stanislas Langlois des Essarts. His father (d. 1893) was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation.
Emmanuel-Adolphe was educated at the École Normale Supérieure.
Des Essarts became a teacher of rhetoric and finally professor of literature at Dijon and at Clermont.
Member of Ligue de la patrie française