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S. Henry (Samuel Henry) Berthoud
1804–1891
A prolific 19th-century French writer and journalist, he moved easily between supernatural tales, historical fiction, and lively popular science for young readers. His career also tied him to important literary magazines, helping make him a familiar name in French reading culture of the time.
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Les Filleules de Rubens, Tome I
by S. Henry (Samuel Henry) Berthoud
About the author
Born in Cambrai, France, on January 19, 1804, Samuel-Henri Berthoud was the son of a printer-bookseller and began writing early. After contributing to his father's paper, he founded the Gazette de Cambrai in 1828 and later built a wider career in Paris as a journalist and man of letters.
Berthoud wrote across an unusually wide range of subjects. He became known for fiction with a dark or supernatural edge, for historical novels, and for popular science writing aimed at younger readers. Reference works also note his connection with the family magazine Musée des familles, an influential publication in 19th-century France.
He died in Paris on March 26, 1891. Today he is remembered as a versatile popular writer whose work joined entertainment, curiosity, and instruction in a way that suited the broad magazine-reading audience of his era.