Background
Théodore Frédéric Gaillardet was born on April 7, 1808, at Auxerre, department of the Yonne, France.
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The Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts
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Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain. Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades--all expressly forbidden, of course, by both Church and State. Once satiated, the ladies have their lovers murdered, and the bodies dumped into the Seine. One man (Buridan) manages to escape, and uses his knowledge of what's taking place to force the Queen to make him Prime Minister. In the end of course, the secret cannot be maintained. Dumas and Gaillardet have used a murky legend of misconduct by the daughters-in-law of King Philip the Fair to construct a compelling picture of life in court in the middle ages, and its ruthless focus on power and sex. Another stunning achievement by one of the greatest French writers!
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Struensêe: ou, Le médegin de la reline, drame en cinq actes: par M. Frédéric Gaillardet, auteur de Georges et de la tour de nesle; représenté, nour ... (French Edition)
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Mémoires Du Chevalier d'Éon, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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Theodore Frederic Gaillardet
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Gaillardet early studied law and was admitted to practice at Tonnerre (Yonne) where his family lived, but soon abandoned the law and went to Paris.
Career
In Paris, Gaillardet became interested in the theatre and, under the influence of Victor Hugo and the romantic movement, wrote a play, La Tour de Nesle, brilliantly and successfully produced at the Théâtre de Porte-Saint-Martin in May 1832.
The unwelcome collaboration of Alexander Dumas père in this play provoked a noted literary quarrel which culminated in six legal suits, in which Gaillardet was successful, and a duel in which both successfully escaped injury.
Gaillardet wrote two more plays, Georges, ou le criminel par Amour, and Struensée, ou le Médecin de la Reine, both produced the following year (1833) at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, before turning his attention to historical studies.
His Mémoires du Chevalier d’Êon, an important study of one of the most enigmatical figures of the eighteenth century, was published in two volumes in 1836. The following year Gaillardet accompanied his two brothers, one a physician and the other a merchant, to New Orleans.
He planned a book on the United States in the fashion which De Tocqueville had established. From the time of his arrival in America, he contributed to two Parisian newspapers: La Presse and Le Journal des Débats. As a preface to his American studies he traveled in Cuba and in Texas and then went up the Mississippi Valley to Kentucky.
A series of his articles on Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas appeared in the Journal des Débats during 1839. After having visited the French populations of America he determined to found a newspaper for them and for the French language. This newspaper he built from the ruins of the Courrier des États-Unis.
Founded in New York in 1828 by Joseph Bonaparte, it had been sold several years later to a German bookseller named Beer, who had just died when Gaillardet came to New York. This newspaper, with its few remaining subscribers, Gaillardet bought, and to it he gave new life.
He assumed control in January 1840, and his generous and liberal program brought forth an immediate response. “Nous ne serons ni Républicains, ni Carlistes, ni Philippistes; nous serons Français, ne pensant pas qu’il doive y avoir d’autres dénominations parmi nous à l’étranger”.
Of a party organ, he made a national newspaper, the oldest French newspaper in America that has continued publication to the present time. In 1848, Gaillardet, attracted by the newly founded republic in France, sold the newspaper to a Mr. Arpin of New Orleans and returned to Tonnerre, where his friends persuaded him to become a candidate for the National Assembly.
There he found that his old enemy Dumas and Prince Louis-Napoleon were his opponents; Dumas and Gaillardet withdrew and Napoleon was elected.
In this year, he published Profession de foi et considérations sur le système républicain des États-Unis présentées aux électeurs de l’Yonne (1848). He had not entirely given up his journalistic career in New York, for he remained the Parisian political correspondent for the Courrier until his death in 1882.
After the publication of new material on the Chevalier d’Éon, he wrote another study, Mémoires sur la Chevalière d’Êon, which appeared in 1866.
He died in 1882, at Plessis-Bouchard (near Franconville) where he had, in his retirement, become mayor of the village.
Achievements
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Gaillardet was the author of the study of one of the most enigmatical figures of the eighteenth century Mémoires du Chevalier d’Êon. He contributed to two Parisian newspapers: La Presse and Le Journal des Débats. He also gave new life to the newspaper Courrier des États-Unis. His long-awaited book on America, L’Aristocratie en Amérique, brilliant though fragmentary, was published in 1883, the year after his death.
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The Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts
(Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Du...)
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Struensêe: ou, Le médegin de la reline, drame en cinq actes: par M. Frédéric Gaillardet, auteur de Georges et de la tour de nesle; représenté, nour ... (French Edition)
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Mémoires Du Chevalier D'éon: Pub. Pour La Première Fois Sur Les Papiers Fournis Par Sa Famille, Et D'après Les Matériaux Authentiques Déposés Aux ... Étrangères, Volume 1 (French Edition)
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L'Aristocratie En Amérique (French Edition)
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Mémoires Du Chevalier d'Éon, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
(Excerpt from Mémoires du Chevalier d'Éon, Vol. 1 Ne fai...)
- Sketches of Early Texas and Louisiana
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The Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts
Personality
Gaillardet numbered among his many friends in American public life James Buchanan, Charles G. Ingersoll, and Pierre Soulé, returned often to America, and in the presidential campaign of 1872 spoke for his friend Horace Greeley.
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France