About Paul Ginisty
Lived 1855 – 1932 (aged 76). Paul Ginisty was a French journalist, poet, theatre manager, playwright and literary historian.
Paul Ginisty (4 April 1855 – 5 March 1932) was a French writer, columnist and journalist.
A regular columnist at Gil Blas, he met Guy de Maupassant who would dedicate him his short story . From 1896 to 1906, he was theatre manager for the Théâtre de l'Odéon, then became an inspector of monuments historiques.
Selected bibliography 1881: Les Idylles parisiennes, (text online at Gallica). 1883: Les Rastaquouères : études parisiennes, (text online at Gallica). 1884: L'Amour à trois, foreword by Guy de Maupassant. 1884: La Seconde Nuit, roman bouffe, (text online at Gallica). 1888: Le Dieu bibelot, publisher A-Dupret 1901: La Marquise de Sade 1903: Vers la bonté, frontispice et fleurons by , hors-texte de Paul Steck, Paris, Joanin & Cie 1907: Mémoires d'un danseuse de corde : Mme Saqui (1786-1866), (text online at Gallica). 1914: Mémoires et souvenirs de comédiennes XVIIIe 1922: Anthologie du journalisme du XVIIe siècle à nos jours 1923: Les Nids d'aigles 1925: Les Anciens Boulevards 1929: Eugène Sue 1930: Souvenirs de journalisme et de théâtre, (text online at Gallica).
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French journalist (1855–1932)
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Paul Ginisty was born on 4 April 1855 in Grenelle.
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Paul Ginisty died on 5 March 1932 in Paris.
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Paul Ginisty was a journalist, poet, theatre manager, playwright and literary historian.
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Paul Ginisty was French.
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