Armand de Pontmartin
Armand Augustin Joseph Marie Ferrard, Comte de Pontmartin was a French journalist, critic and man of letters.
Pontmartin was born at Avignon, France, on 16 July 1811. A Legitimist sympathizer, he began his career by attacking the Encyclopédistes and their successors. In the Assemblée nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation.
Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: Contes et reveries d'un planteur de choux ; Causeries du samedi ; Nouveaux samedis, &c. But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau, which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers.
Pontmartin died at Avignon on 29 March 1890.
