Mathurin-Joseph Brisset

A bodyguard attached to the company of Havré, then an infantry officer during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, he took part to the Spanish campaign (1823) where he was awarded the cross of first class knight of the Order of Saint Ferdinand. He left the army after the July Revolution of 1830 and landed as political critic by the Gazette de France. He also held there theatrical criticism and devoted himself entirely to writing. Thus, he published a considerable number of historical novels and his plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre des Nouveautés, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Gymnase dramatique etc.

• Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 1865, p. 1287
• Thomas Rossman Palfrey, L'Europe littéraire: (1833-1834), 1927, p. 147
• Charles Maillier, Trois journalistes drouais: Brisset, Dujarier, Buré, 1968, p. 19
• Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XIXe siècle, 1975, p. 327
• Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian, 2010, p. 254