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Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen – 12 April 1879,
On 2 April 1854, he revived ''
Hippolyte de Villemessant and the history of the Hotel du Cap
/ref> October 1874, Villemessant is invited by his friend Jean-Baptiste Daloz to hunt in his property in Le Touquet. Fascinated by the beauty of what Villemessant calls the « Arcachon of the North », he gives his friend the idea to transform part of his property into a future sea resort. Villemessant gives it a name « Paris-Plage ». Thus in 1882, came a live the first part of Touquet Paris Plage (in the west of the boulevard Daloz).
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Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen – 12 April 1879, Monte-Carlo
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) was a conservative French journalist.
Life
The son of colonel Pierre Cartier and of Augustine Louise Renée Françoise de Launay de Villemessant, Hippolyte de Villemessant began his career trading in ribbons. After his business fell apart, he left to become an insurance inspector inTours
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then in Nantes.
Moving to Paris in 1839, he launched a weekly magazine on fashion, literature, theatre and music entitled ''La Sylphide'', which was impregnated with perfume from his advertisers. In 1841 he set up the ''Le Miroir des dames'', which only lasted two years. In 1844, ''La Sylphide'' met the same fate. In May 1848, he tried again with ''Le Lampion'', which lasted three months. The journal was renamed ''La Bouche de fer'' and got de Villemessant imprisoned in the prison de Mazas. In 1850, he launched ''La Chronique de Paris'' and, after that was suppressed, replaced it with ''La Chronique de France''.
On 2 April 1854, he revived ''Le Figaro
''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of r ...
'' for the tenth time, this time in a weekly format. One historian later wrote:
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He surrounded himself with talented editors like Eugène Caplas.
Resorts
In 1869 Hippolyte de Villemessant built on the côte d'Azur la "Villa du Soleil" as a writers retreat. 20 years later the villa became the « Grand Hotel du Cap », today the « Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc », one of the most prestigious Palace Hotels of the World./ref> October 1874, Villemessant is invited by his friend Jean-Baptiste Daloz to hunt in his property in Le Touquet. Fascinated by the beauty of what Villemessant calls the « Arcachon of the North », he gives his friend the idea to transform part of his property into a future sea resort. Villemessant gives it a name « Paris-Plage ». Thus in 1882, came a live the first part of Touquet Paris Plage (in the west of the boulevard Daloz).
Publications
*'' Monsieur le Comte de Chambord et la France à Wiesbaden'', 1850/small> *''Les Cancans, petit almanach de la chronique de Paris'', 1852 *''Mémoires d’un journaliste'', 6 vol., 1872-1884
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Villemessant, Hippolyte De 1810 births 1879 deaths Writers from Rouen 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French male writers Le Figaro people