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Alphonse Balleydier

Baron Alphonse Victor Balleydier Christian, born on 15 January 1810 in Lyon , where he died on 10 November 1859 , is a writer, historian and biographer French.

Biography

Born into a bourgeois family of origin Savoy, the son of Gaspard Balleydier Prosper ( 1781 -?), merchant and banker in Lyon and Melanie Antoinette Hell ( 1786 - 1861 ), sister of Anne Chrtien Louis de Hell , cons- Admiral and Governor of the Isle Bourbon , whose personality shaping his early years.

Probably influenced by conflicting commitments of his cousins, Caesar Balleydier , a royalist lawyer guillotined, he first made known his ideas by working with conservative newspapers in Lyon. He then moved to Paris to publish stories by different deliveries.

Following the February Revolution, he puts his name to a number of historical compilations conceived in a spirit cons-revolutionary. He is the author of works inspired by a sense of social and political order, the most famous are the political and military history of the people of Lyon during the French Revolution and the history of the revolution in Rome. His History of the revolutions of the empire of Austria and his history of the war in Hungary, which are still authoritative today, earned him the title of Freiherr ( Baron ) and historian of the Emperor of Austria.

He also contributed to the Library of Education, for which he wrote novels, short story collections and stories, including several series of vigils, which met with great success at the time.

Publications

New Lyon (1843)
The Banks of the Rhone, from Lyon to the sea, chronic and Legends (1843)
Political and military history of the people of Lyon during the French Revolution (1789-1795) (3 volumes, 1845-1846)
Rome and Pius IX (1847)
History of the Mobile Guard from the barricades of February. With the nominal roll of officers of each battalion, as well as the complete list of the dead and wounded victims of the 4 days of June (1848)
The First Legion in Cherbourg. Travel Impressions (1848)
Turin and Carlo Alberto (1848)
History of the Republican Guard (1848)
The Convent and the barracks of Celestine (1849)
God does not want, or Revolutionary painted by themselves (1849)
Visit by England to France or a week in Paris during the Easter holidays (1849)
The truth about the affairs of Naples, Rebuttals letters from Mr. Gladstone (1851)
History of the Revolution of Rome, religious painting, political and military years 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849 and 1850 in Italy (2 volumes, 1851)
History of revolutions of the Austrian Empire, the years 1848 and 1849 (1853)
War history of Hungary in 1848-1849, further to the history of revolutions of the Austrian Empire (1853)
Family gatherings (1855)
Evenings Marine (1856)
History of the Emperor Nicolas (thirty-year reign) (2 volumes, 1857)
History of St. Gudula and Holy Sacrament of the Miracle (1859)
Holiday Evenings (1859)
Evenings on a presbytery (1860)
Evenings people (1862)
A Historical Walk (1863)
Story of an Easter egg (1876)
The Little White Riding Hood (1876)
Stories from home (1876)
Valeria or the early Christians and Other Stories (1890)