author
Amédée Bouis
A 19th-century French author whose work ranged from political commentary to frontier fiction, he wrote about the upheavals of 1848 and imagined life among pioneers in the Oregon country.
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Le Whip-Poor-Will, ou, les pionniers de l'Orégon
by Amédée Bouis
About the author
Little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from the sources I found, but his published works place him in the middle of the political and literary world of the late 1840s.
Bibliographic records connect him with several French-language books from that period, including Événements de Paris pendant les journées de juin 1848, France et Italie, ou le Congrès des peuples, and Le Whip-Poor-Will, ou les pionniers de l'Orégon. Some editions identify him as "Améd. Bouis, Américain," which suggests a link to America, though I could not verify the exact nature of that connection.
His surviving work shows an author interested in both current events and adventure storytelling: on one side, sharp engagement with the revolutions and unrest of 1848; on the other, a novel set among pioneers in the American West. That mix gives his writing a distinct place between history, politics, and popular fiction.