Auguste Coeuret

Auguste Coeuret is a little-documented French author remembered for La Bastille: 1370-1789, histoire, description, attaque et prise, published in Paris by J. Rothschild in 1890. The book was issued as an illustrated historical monograph and traces the Bastille from its medieval beginnings to its fall during the French Revolution.

Several later listings for the book describe Coeuret as an attaché à la Préfecture de la Seine and an Officier d'Académie, suggesting he had a civil-service background as well as official recognition in education or letters. Beyond that, reliable biographical details are scarce, so most of what can be said with confidence comes from the publication record attached to this one known work.

That modest footprint does not make the book unimportant. Coeuret wrote for readers curious about Paris, the Bastille, and the long historical build-up to 1789, and his work still circulates today in digital libraries and reprints for anyone interested in French history.