Albert Le Roy

Born in Paris on December 19, 1856, Albert François Clément Le Roy was a French writer and scholar who also pursued a public career. Sources describe him as a docteur ès lettres and an homme de lettres, and he later served as a deputy for Privas in the Ardèche.

Alongside politics, he published literary and historical studies, including George Sand et ses amis and L'aube du théâtre romantique. Those titles suggest the kind of work he is remembered for today: informed, book-minded writing focused on major figures and movements in 19th-century French literature.

He died on August 18, 1905, in Saint-Fortunat-sur-Eyrieux. For audiobook listeners, he is best approached as a thoughtful literary commentator from the Belle Époque, with a clear interest in writers, friendships, and the cultural world that shaped modern French literature.