Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon : destin d’un faussaire par vocation

• Authors: Łukasz Szkopiński

Abstracts

EN

Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) was the author of numerous novels belonging to different genres. However, if he wasn’t completely forgotten by the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th c., it was thanks to a long list of apocryphal memoirs attributed to famous people which in fact he wrote himself. At first, this paper shows reactions from the press in 1829 after the publication of Mémoires d’une femme de qualité sur Louis XVIII and Mémoires de la comtesse Du Barri. Although some journalists chose to perpetuate the fiction that the memoirs were authentic, others denounced them as false and heavily criticized this kind of literary enterprise. Thereafter, the article focuses on Lamothe-Langon’s response to his critics and on his vision of apocryphal memoirs in his preface to Les Après-diners de S. A. S. Cambacérès (1837).

Keywords

EN

French literature; memoirs; literary forgery; Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon

FR

littérature française; mémoires; mystifications littéraires; Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 34
• Pages: 137-154

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Łukasz Szkopiński

• Université de Łódź

• https://orcid.org/000000020486600X

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

20874654