Léon Guérin
Léon Guérin (1807–1885) was a French writer, poet, and naval historian. Guérin started writing tales and short stories under his given name, as well as the pen names Guérin-Dulion and Léonide de Mirbel. In 1829, he published Chants Lyriques et Autres Essais Poétiques.
Also recorded as Léonide de Mirbel
Léon Guérin
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- Born
- 1807. · Mortagne-au-Perche.
- Died
- 1885.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, historian, journalist and writer.
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- French.
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He then founded two children's newspapers|newspapers, the Journal des Enfants, and later the Gazette des Enfants et des Jeunes Personnes. Later in life, Guérin specialised as a historian, and became one of the historiographs of the French Navy in 1846.
• Chronique du Café de Paris: Le Jeune Homme, 1838 • Les Trois Fils du Capitaine: Voyage dans l'Amérique du Sud et aux Antilles, 1841 • Voyages du Jeune Edmond au-delà du Gange et dans L'Empire Chinois, 1841 • L'Élève de Marine: Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, 1841 • Le Tour du Monde, ou, Les Mille et Une Merveilles des Voyages, 1842 • Les Voix Naïves: Contes Moraux Destinés à la Jeunesse, 1843 • Histoire Maritime de France, 1844 • Les Marins Illustres de la France, 1845 • Les Jeunes Navigateurs: Autour du Monde, 1845 • L'Europe, Histoire des Nations Européennes, 1846 • Les Navigateurs français: Histoire des Navigations, Découvertes et Colonisations françaises, Paris, 1846 • Histoire de la Marine Contemporaine: Depuis 1784 Jusqu'à 1848, 1855 • Histoire de la Dernière Guerre de Russie (1853–1856) dans la Mer, 1858
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