Louis de Loménie
Louis-Léonard de Loménie (3 December 1815 – 2 April 1878) was a French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works. Biography. Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the "Revue des Deux Mondes". His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title "Galerie des contemporains  illustres par un homme de rien" (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie Française in 1871. He died in Paris in 1878. Works. His chief work is "Beaumarchais et son temps" (1855), marked by much scholarly research. He also wrote "La comtesse de Rochefort et ses amis" (1871); "Esquisses historiques et littéraires" (1878); "Les Mirabeau" (1879).