About Édouard Magnien
Lived 1795 – 1899 (aged 103–104). Édouard Magnien was a French writer.
Marie Édouard Magnien ( 4 July 1795 – 7 March 1866) was a 19th-century French intellectual.
Biography Magnien was born in Montfort-l'Amaury, the son of Jacques Magnien, a lawyer in Parliament, and Justine Anastasie Vallon. He is Stéphane Mallarmé's great-great-cousin. A tutor in the Sarthe department, he is mostly known for his Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français in 1826 and his participation in the writing of the play Le Secret d'état (1831) by Eugène Sue and Ferdinand de Villeneuve.
A founding member of the Société des Sciences naturelle, he resigned in 1864.
He died in Paris.
Works 1821: L'Ode au sommeil, ode 1826: Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français 1831: Le Secret d'état, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Eugène Sue and Ferdinand de Villeneuve 1836: Mortel, ange ou démon, 2 vols., collection of poems 1836: Excursions en Espagne ou chroniques provinciales de la péninsule 1841: Épître à un centenaire, 1841 1851: Notice nécrologique sur M. Adolphe Veytard
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Édouard Magnien was born on 4 July 1795 in Montfort-l'Amaury.
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