Eugène de Mirecourt

Charles Jean-Baptiste Jacquot (19 November 1812 – 13 February 1880), he began working as a journalist, using the pen name Eugène de Mirecourt.

After some short stories, he published, together with Leupol, a three-volume work, "la Lorraine" (Nancy, 1839–1840), which gave his name a certain notoriety. It was then that he began to publicize the many collaborations that Alexandre Dumas had used in the series of novels published under that name. In his pamphlet Fabrique de Romans: Maison Alexandre Dumas & Cie, fabrique de romans (1845), Mirecourt denounced the fact that Dumas' work was written by others and thus contributed to the spread of a figurative meaning of the word nègre (ghostwriter in French).

Mirecourt then published several novels, and wrote a drama with Fournier, Mme de Tencin. His brochure against Alexandre Dumas had inspired him to review celebrities of the time: in 1854, he began the Gallery of Contemporaries, which raised opposition from the press. were Hector Berlioz and George Sand.

After the Gallerie finished in 1857, Mirecourt founded the weekly Les Contemporains. In this serial, each issue contained a biographical article penned in his typically biting style.