page_title: Armand de Pontmartin
hierarchical_section_title: Armand de Pontmartin
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890)
context_page_description: Armand Augustin Joseph Marie Ferrard, Comte de Pontmartin was a French journalist, critic and man of letters.
  Pontmartin was born at Avignon, France, on 16 July 1811. A Legitimist sympathizer, he began his career by attacking the Encyclopédistes 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; Causeries du samedi; Nouveaux samedis, &c. But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau, 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.
context_section_description: Armand Augustin Joseph Marie Ferrard, Comte de Pontmartin (1811-1890) was a French journalist, critic and man of letters.
  Pontmartin was born at Avignon (Vaucluse), France, on 16 July 1811. A Legitimist sympathizer, he began his career by attacking the Encyclopédistes 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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