Armand Augustin Joseph Marie Ferrard, Comte de Pontmartin (1811-1890) was a French

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, critic and man of letters. Pontmartin was born at

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(Vaucluse), France, on 16 July 1811. A

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sympathizer, he began his career by attacking the

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and their successors. In the ''Assemblée nationale'' he published his ''Causeries litteraires'', a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation. Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: ''Contes et reveries d'un planteur de choux'' (1845); ''Causeries du samedi'' (1857-1860); ''Nouveaux samedis'' (1865-1881), &c. But the most famous of all his books is ''Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau'' (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at Avignon on 29 March 1890.

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