Career
Of Jewish parentage, Börne joined the Protestant church in 1818. From 1818 to 1821 he devoted himself to journalism, editing Die Waage, and after the July Revolution (1830) he emigrated to France, where he lived until his death. In Paris he directed his brilliant Briefe aus Paris (1831-1834) against the reactionary political system of Germany and wrote his witty satire Menzel, der Franzosenfresser (1837) against the chauvinistic pan-Germanism of the German literary world. Börne was idolized by his younger contemporaries as the incarnation of German liberalism; but as one of the founders of Young Germany he had powerful enemies, and his works were suppressed in 1835.