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Jacques Peuchet, Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon et les origines du Comte de Monte-Cristo d’Alexandre Dumas

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Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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2023
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issue 20
335-344
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As Alexandre Dumas himself admitted on several occasions, his novel The Count of Monte Cristo was inspired by “Le Diamant et la Vengeance”, a short story included in Mémoires tirés des archives de la police de Paris, pour servir à l’histoire de la morale et de la police, depuis Louis XIV jusqu’à nos jours (6 vol., Paris, Levavasseur, 1838), published under the name of Jacques Peuchet (1758–1830). It is also worth noting that yet another story from the same book, “Un crime de famille”, was used by Dumas in his novel. The aim of this article is to show the extent of the influence of Mémoires tirés des archives de la police de Paris on The Count of Monte Cristo as well as the reactions of the French press concerning this fact. Furthermore, the paper examines the theory according to which the memoirs in question, although attributed to Peuchet, were in fact partially, if not entirely, written by Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1786–1864), novelist and author of countless apocryphal memoirs published under the names of various notable Frenchmen and women.
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Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon : destin d’un faussaire par vocation

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Cahiers ERTA
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2023
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issue 34
137-154
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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).
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