Life

Ulbach was born at Troyes

Troyes

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 (Aube

Aube

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). He was encouraged to take up a literary career by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

. He became dramatic critic of the Temps, and attracted attention by a series of satirical letters addressed to Le Figaro

Le Figaro

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over the signature of “Ferragus,” and published separately in 1868. He edited the Revue de Paris

Revue de Paris

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until its suppression in 1858, and in 1868 he founded a paper, La Cloche, which was suppressed in 1869 for its hostility to the empire. Ulbach was imprisoned for six months, and when on his release he revived the paper he got into trouble both with the commune

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 and the government, and was again imprisoned in 1871-1872. In 1878 he was made librarian

Librarian

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 of the arsenal

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, and died in Paris

Paris

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 on the 16th of April 1889.

Works

• Gloriana, poèmes (1844)
• Lettres à Jacques Souffrant, ouvrier (1851)
• Philosophie maçonnique (1853)
• Argine Piquet (1853)
• L'Amour et la mort, nouvelles (1855)
• Suzanne Duchemin (1855)
• Écrivains et hommes de lettres: Voltaire et M. Nicolardot. Montaigne et M. Étienne Catalan. Stendhal. M. Hip. Castille. M. Flourens. M. Lanfrey. L'Académie et les académiciens. M. E. Pelletan. M. Gustave Planche. Gérard de Nerval. Le Parti catholique : MM. de Montalembert, de Falloux, Veuillot. Fléchier. Paul Delaroche. M. E. Quinet (1857)
• Les Roués sans le savoir, nouvelles (1857)
• Les Secrets du diable, nouvelles (1858)
• La Voix du sang (1858)
• Pauline Foucault (1859)
• Histoire d'une mère et de ses enfants. Madame Gottlieb (1859)
• L'Homme aux cinq louis d'or (1860)
• L'Île des rêves, aventures d'un Anglais qui s'ennuie, nouvelles (1860)
• Monsieur et Madame Fernel (1860)
• Françoise (1862)
• Le Mari d'Antoinette (1862)
• Causeries du dimanche (1863)
• Voyage autour de mon clocher. Histoire et histoires, nouvelles (1864)
• Louise Tardy (1864)
• Mémoires d'un inconnu (1864)
• Le Parrain de Cendrillon (1865)
• Le Jardin du chanoine (1866)
• La Chauve-souris, suite du Parrain de Cendrillon (1867)
• Les Parents coupables, mémoires d'un lycéen (1867)
• Le Roman de la bourgeoisie : La cocarde blanche (1814) (1868)
• Rapport sur les rapporteurs de M. Duruy (MM. de Sacy, Paul Féval, Théophile Gautier, E. Thierry) (1868)
• Nos contemporains : Napoléon III. Lamartine. Le duc d'Aumale. Victor Hugo. Louis Blanc. Sainte-Beuve. Mazzini. George Sand. Thiers. Jules Grévy (1869–1871)
• Lettres de Ferragus (1869)
• Le Prince Bonifacio, nouvelles (1869)
• Le Sacrifice d'Aurélie (1873)
• Les Compagnons du Lion dormant : La Maison de la rue de l'Échaudé (1874)
• Les Compagnons du Lion dormant : La Ronde de nuit (1874)
• Les Cinq doigts de Birouk (1874)
• Le Secret de Mlle Chagnier, suite des Cinq doigts de Birouk (1875)
• Aventures de trois grandes dames de la cour de Vienne, d'après Henriette von Paalzow (3 volumes, 1875–1876)
  • La Comtesse de Thyrnau
• Le Baron américain, adapté de James de Mille (1876)
• Madame Gosselin (1877)
• Mémoires d'un assassin : Cyrille (1877)
• Mémoires d'un assassin : Maxime (1877)
• Le Comte Orphée (1878)
• Guide sentimental de l'étranger dans Paris, par un Parisien (1878)
• Monsieur Paupe (1878)
• Simple amour, suite de Monsieur Paupe (1878)
• Les Buveurs de poison : Noèle (1879)
• Les Buveurs de poison : La Fée verte (1879)
• L'Enfant de la morte (1879)
• Le Château des Épines (1880)
• Le Crime de Martial, suite du Château des Épines (1880)
• Réparation (1880)
• Le Tapis vert, imité de Mór Jókai
  Mór Jókai
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   (1880)
• Le Mariage de Pouchkine, imité de Mór Jókai, suite du Tapis vert (1881)
• La Fleuriotte (1881)
• Le Marteau d'acier (1882)
• Quinze ans de bagne, suit du Marteau d'acier (1882)
• La Confession d'un abbé (1883)
• L'Homme au gardénia (1884)
• Autour de l'amour (1885)
• Almanach de Victor Hugo (1885)
• L'Espion des écoles, avec 27 compositions de Carl Larsson
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   (1885)
• Amants et maris (1886)
• L'Amour moderne (1886)
• Espagne et Portugal, notes et impressions (1886)
• Papa Fortin (1886)
• La Maîtresse du général (1887)
• Les Bonnes Femmes (1887)
• La Csárdás, notes et impressions d'un Français en Autriche, en Hongrie, en Roumanie, en Angleterre, en Italie, en Suisse, en Belgique, en Hollande, en France (1888)
• Les Belles et les bêtes, études de physiologie comparée (1888)
• Mère et maîtresse (1888)
• Bobinette (1889)

Dramatic works

• Don Almanzo, opéra-bouffe in one act, with Eugène Labat, music by Renaud de Vilbac, Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique
  Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin)
  In 1862 during Haussmann's modernization of Paris the Théâtre de la Gaîté of the boulevard du Temple was relocated to the rue Papin across from the Square des Arts et Métiers....
  
  , 16 avril 1858
• Le Doyen de Saint-Patrick, play in 5 acts, with Léon de Wailly, Paris, Théâtre impérial de l'Odéon, 20 novembre 1862
• Monsieur et Madame Fernel, comedy
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   in 4 acts, with Henri Crisafulli, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
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  , 30 janvier 1864