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Amédée Roux

b. 1828

A 19th-century French man of letters, he moved comfortably between law, journalism, history, and translation. He is especially remembered for writing on Italian literature and for biographies and historical studies shaped by a scholar’s curiosity.

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Un Misanthrope à la Cour de Louis XIV: Montausier, sa vie et son temps

Un Misanthrope à la Cour de Louis XIV: Montausier, sa vie et son temps

by Amédée Roux

About the author

Born in Billom on May 9, 1828, Amédée Roux was a French lawyer who also built a literary career as a writer, historian, journalist, and translator. Bibliographic records consistently place him in those overlapping roles, showing the range of his work rather than a single narrow specialty.

He is notably associated with studies of Italian literature, including Histoire de la littérature italienne contemporaine, and he also published historical and biographical works such as Un Misanthrope à la cour de Louis XIV. His output suggests a writer drawn to both literary history and the lives of notable figures.

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