J. Berlioz d' (Jules Berlioz) Auriac

Born in Grenoble in 1820, Jules Berlioz d'Auriac was a French writer who first worked as a police commissioner in Paris before turning to literature in the 1850s. He also wrote for the newspaper L'Arc-en-Ciel and adopted "d'Auriac" from his mother's name.

He published around twenty books between 1852 and 1879. His fiction often drew on adventure themes connected to the American frontier, with settlers, conflict, and travel-style storytelling, and he also wrote the historical novel La Guerre Noire, set against the Haitian Revolution.

Berlioz d'Auriac is also remembered for his collaboration with Gustave Aimard, with whom he co-signed a number of novels in the late 1870s. A cousin of the composer Hector Berlioz, he lived into the early 20th century and died in Bagnolet in 1913.