Charles Yriarte was a French

France

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 writer from a family originally from Spain

Spain

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. He studied architecture

Architecture

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 in the École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

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 and became in 1856 inspector of government buildings. Later, he joined the Spanish army as reporter for the Monde illustré on their campaign in Morocco

Morocco

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. For this journal, he travelled in Spain and Italy

Italy

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and became its editor after his return in 1862. In 1871, he quit his post to devote his time to travels, whose impressions he used in his works.

Works

• La societe espagnole (Par. 1861)
• Sous la tente, souvenir du Maroc (1862)
• Paris grotesque, les celebrites de la rue 1815-63 (1864, 2. Ed. 1868)
• Les cercles de Paris, 1828-64 (1865)
• Portraits parisiens (1865)
• Nouveaux portraits parisiens (1869)
• Goya, sa vie, son oeuvre (1867)
• Portraits cosmopolites und Tableaux de la guerre (1870)
• Les Prussiens a Paris et le 18 mars (1871)
• Campagne de France 1870-71 (1871)
• Les princes d'Orleans (1872)
• Le Puritain (1873)
• L'Istrie et la Dalmatie (1874)
• Trieste e l'Istria (1875)
• La Bosnie et l'Herzegovine pendant l'insurrection (1875)
• Bosnie et Herzégovine: souvenirs de voyage pendant l'insurrection (1876)
• Venise: l'histoire, l'art, l'industrie, la ville et la vie (1877)
• Les bords de l'Adriatique (1878)
• Florence (1880)
• Un condottiere au XV. siecle: Rimini (1882)
• Francoise de Rimini (1882)
• Matteo Civitali (1885)
• La vie d'un patricien de Venise au XVI. siecle (von der Akademie gekrönt, 2. Ed. 1885)
• Cesar Borgia (1889, 2 Vols.)
• Mantegna (1901)