author
Gaston Maugras
1850–1927
Best known for vivid books on 18th-century France, this historian brought courts, salons, and famous literary quarrels to life with a storyteller’s eye. His work moves easily between archival detail and the drama of private lives.
4 Audiobooks
Dernières Années de la Cour de Lunéville Mme de Boufflers, ses enfants et ses amis
by Gaston Maugras
La Marquise de Boufflers et son fils, le chevalier de Boufflers
by Gaston Maugras
La Cour de Lunéville au XVIIIe siècle Les marquises de Boufflers et du Châtelet, Voltaire, Devau, Saint-Lambert, etc.
by Gaston Maugras
Les comédiens hors la loi
by Gaston Maugras
About the author
Born in Soissons on November 16, 1850, and dead in Paris on November 1, 1927, Gaston Maugras was a French historian and writer. Sources consistently describe him as a historian, and library records show a long publishing career centered on French cultural and social history.
His books returned again and again to the world of the ancien régime and the Enlightenment, with subjects including Voltaire, Rousseau, the Choiseuls, Lauzun, Genlis, and the court of Lunéville. Titles listed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France suggest a strong interest in the intimate side of history: private correspondence, personal rivalries, court life, and the everyday texture behind major names.
That makes his work a good fit for listeners who enjoy history told through character and atmosphere rather than dry chronology alone. Even when writing about well-known figures, he seems to have preferred the human story—friendships, scandals, letters, and the social worlds that shaped an era.