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Léon Guérin

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French author, poet, and naval historian

Léon Guérin (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ ɡeʁɛ̃]; 1807–1885) was a French writer, poet, and naval historian.

Guérin started writing tales and short stories under his given name, as well as the pen names Guérin-Dulion and Léonide de Mirbel. In 1829, he published Chants Lyriques et Autres Essais Poétiques. He then founded two children's newspapers|newspapers, the Journal des Enfants, and later the Gazette des Enfants et des Jeunes Personnes.

Later in life, Guérin specialised as a historian, and became one of the historiographs of the French Navy in 1846.

Works

  • Chronique du Café de Paris: Le Jeune Homme, 1838
  • Les Trois Fils du Capitaine: Voyage dans l'Amérique du Sud et aux Antilles, 1841
  • Voyages du Jeune Edmond au-delà du Gange et dans L'Empire Chinois, 1841
  • L'Élève de Marine: Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, 1841
  • Le Tour du Monde, ou, Les Mille et Une Merveilles des Voyages, 1842
  • Les Voix Naïves: Contes Moraux Destinés à la Jeunesse, 1843
  • Histoire Maritime de France, 1844
  • Les Marins Illustres de la France, 1845
  • Les Jeunes Navigateurs: Autour du Monde, 1845
  • L'Europe, Histoire des Nations Européennes, 1846
  • Les Navigateurs français: Histoire des Navigations, Découvertes et Colonisations françaises, Paris, 1846
  • Histoire de la Marine Contemporaine: Depuis 1784 Jusqu'à 1848, 1855
  • Histoire de la Dernière Guerre de Russie (1853–1856) dans la Mer, 1858

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