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Baron Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) was a prolific French author of many novels, apocryphal memoirs, and a controversial historical work.
'''Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon''' (1786-1864) was a prolific French author of many novels, apocryphal memoirs, and a controversial historical work.



== Biography ==
== Biography ==


Baron Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon was born April 1, 1786 in Montpellier a descendant of an old family of Languedoc, it is first known under the name of Lamothe-Houdancourt, then under that of Étienne-Léon, Baron Lamothe-Langon.<ref>BnF Gallica : Axel Duboul, Les Deux Siècles de l’Académie des Jeux Floraux. t. 2, p. 247-250, Imprimerie et librairie Édouard Privat, Toulouse, 1901 [archive]</ref> Until 1806 he lived in Toulouse, where he had met with some success and composed four tragedies, six comedies, a vaudeville, a drama, three novels and two novels before moving to Paris.
Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon, a descendant of an old family of Languedoc, was born April 1, 1786, in [[Montpellier]], He is first known under the name of Lamothe-Houdancourt, then as Étienne-Léon, Baron Lamothe-Langon.<ref>BnF Gallica : [[Axel Duboul]], ''Les Deux Siècles de l’Académie des Jeux Floraux''. vol. 2, {{pp.|247-250}}, Imprimerie et librairie Édouard Privat, Toulouse, 1901 [archive]</ref> Until 1806 he lived in [[Toulouse]], where he composed four tragedies, six comedies, a vaudeville, a drama, three novels and two novels before moving to Paris.


In 1809 he became auditor 1st class Board of imperial state under Napoleon. He was appointed sub-prefect of Toulouse on July 11, 1811. He was sent to Italy as sous-préfet of Livorno on December 13, 1813 and took part in the battle of Viareggio. This earned him the title of Baron of the Empire. During the Hundred Days he is prefect of Carcassonne .
In 1809 he became auditor 1st class of the Board of imperial state under Napoleon. He was appointed sub-prefect of Toulouse on July 11, 1811. He was sent to Italy as sous-préfet of [[Livorno]] on December 13, 1813, and took part in the Battle of [[Viareggio]]. This earned him the title of Baron of the Empire. During the [[Hundred Days]] he was prefect of [[Carcassonne]]. He was head of the [[Académie des jeux floraux|Académie des Jeux Floraux]] in 1813, and on August 29 became member of the [[Toulouse Academy of Sciences]].


During the Restoration he was sub-prefect of Saint-Pons, but lost his job and suffered reverses of fortune which forced him to return to Toulouse and start writing to earn a living. He takes an important part in the writing of the Toulouse Biographies in which we can find elements on his family, for instance Gaillard de Lamothe, nephew of the Pope Clement V and Cardinal, to his father, counselor in the Parliament of Toulouse, who was guillotined July 6, 1794.
During the Restoration he was sub-prefect of [[Saint-Pons-de-Thomières]], but lost his job and suffered reverses of fortune which forced him to return to Toulouse and start writing to earn a living. He took an important part in writing biographies of Toulouse notables including members of his own family, for instance [[Gaillard de la Mothe|Gaillard de Lamothe]], nephew of the Pope Clement V and Cardinal, and of his father, counselor in the [[Parlement of Toulouse|Parliament of Toulouse]], who had been guillotined July 6, 1794.


In 1824 he wrote with some success ''M. le Préfet'' which Stendhal calls that it is "an admirable subject marred by a writer unable to take advantage of."<ref> Roger Musnik, « Étienne de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) | Le blog de Gallica » [archive], sur gallica.bnf.fr, 19 mai 2018 (consulté le 14 juillet 2018)</ref> In 1826, Lamothe-Langon published a biography of the prefects of the 87 departments whose caustic portraits created "a success of scandal." In total he wrote sixty-five novels, sixteen memoirs, and the History of the Inquisition.
In 1824 he wrote with some success ''M. le Préfet'' which Stendhal calls "an admirable subject marred by a writer unable to take advantage of." In 1826, Lamothe-Langon published a biography of the prefects of the 87 departments whose caustic portraits created "a success of scandal." In total he wrote sixty-five novels, sixteen memoirs, and ''the History of the Inquisition''. His last work was a poem ''Wonders of Creation'', May 11, 1838.


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In 1844 he retired to Paris and lived near the Jardin des Plantes. He died April 24, 1864, and was buried in the cemetery of Limeil-Brévannes.<ref> Roger Musnik, « Étienne de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) | Le blog de Gallica » [archive], sur gallica.bnf.fr, 19 mai 2018 (consulté le 14 juillet 2018)</ref>
He was head of the Académie des Jeux Floraux in 1813, and on August 29 became member of the Toulouse Academy of Sciences. His last work was a poem ''Wonders of Creation'', May 11, 1838.

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In 1844 he retired to Paris and lived near the Jardin des Plantes. He died April 24, 1864 and was buried in the cemetery of Limeil-Brévannes.<ref> Roger Musnik, « Étienne de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) | Le blog de Gallica » [archive], sur gallica.bnf.fr, 19 mai 2018 (consulté le 14 juillet 2018)</ref>


== History of the Inquisition in France ==
== History of the Inquisition in France ==
Lamothe-Langon's ''Histoire de l'Inquisition in France'' was published in 1829 and was one among many sources used by German [[Joseph Hansen]] in his foundational history of the witchcraft trials ''Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolung im Mittelalter''(Bonn, 1901). Certain parts of Lamothe-Langon's history became controversial when their reliability was questioned in the 1970s by Norman Cohn and Richard Kieckhefer.
Lamothe-Langon's ''Histoire de l'Inquisition in France'' was published in 1829 and was one among many sources used by the German [[Joseph Hansen (historian)|Joseph Hansen]] in his foundational history of the witchcraft trials ''Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolung im Mittelalter'' (Bonn, 1901). Certain parts of Lamothe-Langon's history became controversial because their reliability was questioned in the 1970s by Norman Cohn and Richard Kieckhefer.

=== Inspiration ===
In the preface, Lamothe-Langon [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=TipSSmlVdo0C&pg=GBS.PR11 writes] that inspiration came from witnessing the ''l'atroce persécution'' of the ''vénérable'' [[Juan Antonio Llorente]], who, while in exile in Paris and had recently published (1817) a work on the inquisition in his native Spain, considered critical of the Church, was harassed over it.<ref>Lamothe-Langon (1829) p. xi</ref><ref>Historian Wolfgang Behringer quoted [https://katkryptolog.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/etienne-leon-de-lamothe-langon-1786-1852/ here].</ref> Lamothe-Langon hoped to delve into the French history of the inquisition as Llorente had delved into the Spanish: ''pour l'inquisition d'Espagne, ce que nous faisons aujourd'hui pour la nôtre'' (as he investigated the Spanish Inquisition, we should now examine our own).

In the preface, Lamothe-Langon also quotes at length from a much earlier history of the inquisition (1692) by [[Philipp van Limborch]]. (Llorente had also been inspired by Limborch, calling him the best and most exact of the previous writers on the subject.<ref>Llorente, [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=YKFFAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PR14 Histoire] (1818) p. xiv </ref>)
Limborch wrote [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=cysymJOAxLwC&pg=GBS.PA11-IA8 the passage] in Latin, and Lamothe-Langon presents it in French by apparently translating it himself.<ref>Limborch, Historia Inquisitionis, cui subjungitur Liber sententiarum inquisitionis Tholosanae ab anno 1307 ad annum 1323 (1692) unpaginated</ref> <ref>Lamothe-Langon (1829) p. xxxvi</ref> The translated passage is of Limborch's introduction to the sentences of Dominican inquisitors Pierre de Claverie and Guillaume Julien, both working in Toulouse in the 14th century. (The original manuscripts copied by Limborch were thought to be lost, but were rediscovered in London at the British Library, Ms. ADD. 4697.)

== References ==
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== Works ==
[[Category:1786 births]]
Épitre à David, premier peintre de sa majesté impériale et royale, sur son tableau du couronnement, par Mr L...D...L...M..., 1808.
[[Category:1864 deaths]]
L’injustice, ou ode David, premier peintre de S. M. l’empereur et le roi, par M. de Lamothe-Houdancourt, 1810.
[[Category:Writers from Montpellier]]
Ode sur le mariage de leurs majestés impériales et royales, par M. Léon de Lamothe-Houdncourt, 1810.
[[Category:19th-century French writers]]
Ode sur le baptême de S. M. le roi de Rome, par M. de Lamothe-Houdancourt, 1811.
[[Category:Forgers]]
Maître Étienne, ou les Fermiers et les châtelains, par le Bon de L..., Paris, 1819.
Le spectre de la galerie du château d’Estalens ou le sauveur mystérieux, traduit de l’anglais par le baron G***, 1819.
Biographie toulousaine : ou Dictionnaire historique de personnages...se sont rendus célèbres dans la ville de Toulouse, ou qui ont contribué à son illustration, Tome 1, Paris, 1823 Article Lamothe [archive] .
Le Monastère des frères noirs ou l’étendard de la mort, 1825.
La Province à Paris, ou les caquets d’une grande ville, 1825.
La Vampire, ou la vierge de Hongrie, 18259.
L’Espion de police, 1826.
Biographie des préfets, depuis l’organisation des préfectures (3 mars 1800), jusqu’à ce jour, 1826.
Alliance de la censure et de l’Inquisition, acte prouvé parle fait, 1827.
La Cour d’un prince régnant, ou les deux maîtresses, 1827.
Justice et amour, première juvénale. Suivi de l’insulte autrichienne, chant français, 1827.
Histoire de l'Inquisition en France, 1829.
Mémoires d’une femme de qualité, sur Louis XVIII, sa cour et son règne, 1829.
Le grand seigneur et la pauvre fille. Roman de mœurs, 1829.
Les nouveaux martyrs, satire, par P.M.L. Baour-Lormian, 1829.
Mémoires de la comtesse Du Barri sur les événements qui se sont passés pendant les règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI et sous la Révolution, 1829.
Mémoires de Gabrielle d’Estrées, 1829.
Mémoires et souvenirs d’un Pair de France, ex-membre du Sénat conservateur, 1830.
Mémoires et souvenirs d’une femme de qualité sur le Consulat et l’Empire, 1830.
Le Fournisseur et la Provençale, roman de mœurs, 1830.
Une semaine de l’histoire de Paris. Dédié aux Parisiens, 1830.
Voyage à Paris, ou esquisses des hommes et des choses dans cette capitale, par le marquis Louis Rainier de Lanfranchi, 1830.
Mémoires d’un émigré, 1830.
Le Duc et le Page, roman de mœurs, 1831.
L’Exilée d’Holy-Rood, 1831.
La Princesse et le sous-officier, histoire contemporaine, 1831.
Cinq mois de l’histoire de Paris en mil huit cent trente, 1831.
La Femme du banquier, histoire contemporaine par la comtesse O*** du ***, 1832.
Les Tuileries en juillet 1832, par le vicomte Varicléry auteur de l’Exilée d’Holy-Rood, 1832.
Histoire pittoresque de la Convention nationale et de ses principaux membres, par L... conventionnel, 1833.
Mémoires de Louis XVIII, recueillis et mis en ordre par le duc de D***, 1833.
Louis-Philippe-Joseph Égalité, scène contemporaines, 1833.
Le comptoir, la plume et l’épée, 1834.
Les jolies filles, 1834.
Le comte de Saint-Germain et la marquise de Pompadour, par Mme D***, 1834.
Mademoiselle de Rohan, 1835.
La famille du voleur, 1836.
L’Empire, ou dix ans sous Napoléon, 1836.
Monsieur et madame, 1837.
Mémoires de mademoiselle Sophie Arnoult, recueillies et publiées par le baron de Lamothe-Langon, 1837.
Les après-diners de S.A.S. Cambacérès, second consul, prince archichancelier de l’Empire, duc de Parme, etc., ou Révélations de plusieurs grands personnages sur l’ancien régime, le Directoire, l’Empire et la Restauration, 1837.
Rachel, 1838.
Bonaparte et le Doge, 1838.
Souvenirs d’un fantôme, chroniques d’un cimetière, 1838.
Reine et soldat, chronique de 1574, 1838.
L’espion russe, ou la société parisienne, par Madame la comtesse O. D., 1838.
L’enfant de Paris, ou le gamin philosophe pratique, juvénale dédiée aux jeunes parisiens de la cité, ville et faubourgs, par un ami du peuple sans charlatanerie, suivi de trois chansons patriotiques, 1838.
Mémoires tirés des archives de la police de Paris pour servir à l’histoire de la morale et de la police, depuis Louis XIV à nos jours, par J. Peuchet, 1838.
La Cloche du trépassé ou les mystères du château de Beauvoir, 1839.
Napoléon, sa famille, ses amis, ses généraux, ses ministres et ses contemporains ou Soirées secrètes du Luxembourg, des Tuileries, de Saint-Cloud, de la Malmaison, de Fontainebleau ..., Paris, 1840.
L’Homme de la nuit, ou les mystères. Roman entièrement inédit, 1842.
Mon général, sa femme et moi, mémoires de Charles de Luciennes, 1843.

Latest revision as of 18:29, 18 September 2023

Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon

Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) was a prolific French author of many novels, apocryphal memoirs, and a controversial historical work.

Biography

[edit]

Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon, a descendant of an old family of Languedoc, was born April 1, 1786, in Montpellier, He is first known under the name of Lamothe-Houdancourt, then as Étienne-Léon, Baron Lamothe-Langon.[1] Until 1806 he lived in Toulouse, where he composed four tragedies, six comedies, a vaudeville, a drama, three novels and two novels before moving to Paris.

In 1809 he became auditor 1st class of the Board of imperial state under Napoleon. He was appointed sub-prefect of Toulouse on July 11, 1811. He was sent to Italy as sous-préfet of Livorno on December 13, 1813, and took part in the Battle of Viareggio. This earned him the title of Baron of the Empire. During the Hundred Days he was prefect of Carcassonne. He was head of the Académie des Jeux Floraux in 1813, and on August 29 became member of the Toulouse Academy of Sciences.

During the Restoration he was sub-prefect of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, but lost his job and suffered reverses of fortune which forced him to return to Toulouse and start writing to earn a living. He took an important part in writing biographies of Toulouse notables including members of his own family, for instance Gaillard de Lamothe, nephew of the Pope Clement V and Cardinal, and of his father, counselor in the Parliament of Toulouse, who had been guillotined July 6, 1794.

In 1824 he wrote with some success M. le Préfet which Stendhal calls "an admirable subject marred by a writer unable to take advantage of." In 1826, Lamothe-Langon published a biography of the prefects of the 87 departments whose caustic portraits created "a success of scandal." In total he wrote sixty-five novels, sixteen memoirs, and the History of the Inquisition. His last work was a poem Wonders of Creation, May 11, 1838.

In 1844 he retired to Paris and lived near the Jardin des Plantes. He died April 24, 1864, and was buried in the cemetery of Limeil-Brévannes.[2]

History of the Inquisition in France

[edit]

Lamothe-Langon's Histoire de l'Inquisition in France was published in 1829 and was one among many sources used by the German Joseph Hansen in his foundational history of the witchcraft trials Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolung im Mittelalter (Bonn, 1901). Certain parts of Lamothe-Langon's history became controversial because their reliability was questioned in the 1970s by Norman Cohn and Richard Kieckhefer.

Inspiration

[edit]

In the preface, Lamothe-Langon writes that inspiration came from witnessing the l'atroce persécution of the vénérable Juan Antonio Llorente, who, while in exile in Paris and had recently published (1817) a work on the inquisition in his native Spain, considered critical of the Church, was harassed over it.[3][4] Lamothe-Langon hoped to delve into the French history of the inquisition as Llorente had delved into the Spanish: pour l'inquisition d'Espagne, ce que nous faisons aujourd'hui pour la nôtre (as he investigated the Spanish Inquisition, we should now examine our own).

In the preface, Lamothe-Langon also quotes at length from a much earlier history of the inquisition (1692) by Philipp van Limborch. (Llorente had also been inspired by Limborch, calling him the best and most exact of the previous writers on the subject.[5]) Limborch wrote the passage in Latin, and Lamothe-Langon presents it in French by apparently translating it himself.[6] [7] The translated passage is of Limborch's introduction to the sentences of Dominican inquisitors Pierre de Claverie and Guillaume Julien, both working in Toulouse in the 14th century. (The original manuscripts copied by Limborch were thought to be lost, but were rediscovered in London at the British Library, Ms. ADD. 4697.)

References

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  1. ^ BnF Gallica : Axel Duboul, Les Deux Siècles de l’Académie des Jeux Floraux. vol. 2, p. 247-250, Imprimerie et librairie Édouard Privat, Toulouse, 1901 [archive]
  2. ^ Roger Musnik, « Étienne de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) | Le blog de Gallica » [archive], sur gallica.bnf.fr, 19 mai 2018 (consulté le 14 juillet 2018)
  3. ^ Lamothe-Langon (1829) p. xi
  4. ^ Historian Wolfgang Behringer quoted here.
  5. ^ Llorente, Histoire (1818) p. xiv
  6. ^ Limborch, Historia Inquisitionis, cui subjungitur Liber sententiarum inquisitionis Tholosanae ab anno 1307 ad annum 1323 (1692) unpaginated
  7. ^ Lamothe-Langon (1829) p. xxxvi
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