Paul Ginisty

Paul Ginisty
Paul Ginisty, literary and dramatic critic, director of the Théâtre national de l'Odéon
Born	4 April 1855 Paris
Died	5 March 1932(1932-03-05) (aged 76) Paris
Occupation(s)	Journalist, writer

Paul Ginisty (4 April 1855 – 5 March 1932) was a French writer, columnist and journalist.

A regular columnist at Gil Blas, he met Guy de Maupassant who would dedicate him his short story Mon oncle Sosthène [fr]. From 1896 to 1906, he was theatre manager for the Théâtre de l'Odéon, then became an inspector of monuments historiques.^[1]

Selected bibliography

• 1881: Les Idylles parisiennes, (text online at Gallica).
• 1883: Les Rastaquouères : études parisiennes, (text online at Gallica).
• 1884: L'Amour à trois, foreword by Guy de Maupassant.
• 1884: La Seconde Nuit, roman bouffe, (text online at Gallica).
• 1888: Le Dieu bibelot, publisher A-Dupret
• 1901: La Marquise de Sade
• 1903: Vers la bonté, frontispice et fleurons by Henri Caruchet [fr], hors-texte de Paul Steck, Paris, Joanin & Cie
• 1907: Mémoires d'un danseuse de corde : Mme Saqui (1786-1866), (text online at Gallica).
• 1914: Mémoires et souvenirs de comédiennes XVIIIe
• 1922: Anthologie du journalisme du XVIIe siècle à nos jours
• 1923: Les Nids d'aigles
• 1925: Les Anciens Boulevards
• 1929: Eugène Sue
• 1930: Souvenirs de journalisme et de théâtre, (text online at Gallica).

References

External links

• Notice d'autorité sur le site de la BnF