TY - JOUR
TI - Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon : destiny of a literary forger
AU - Szkopiński, Łukasz
TI - Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon : destiny of a literary forger
AB - Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) was the author of numerous novels belonging to different genres. However, if he wasn’t completely forgotten by the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th c., it was thanks to a long list of apocryphal memoirs attributed to famous people which in fact he wrote himself. At first, this paper shows reactions from the press in 1829 after the publication of Mémoires d’une femme de qualité sur Louis XVIII and Mémoires de la comtesse Du Barri. Although some journalists chose to perpetuate the fiction that the memoirs were authentic, others denounced them as false and heavily criticized this kind of literary enterprise. Thereafter, the article focuses on Lamothe-Langon’s response to his critics and on his vision of apocryphal memoirs in his preface to Les Après-diners de S. A. S. Cambacérès (1837).
VL - 2023
IS - Numéro 34
PY - 2023
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 137
EP - 154
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.23.015.17932
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/etienne-leon-de-lamothe-langon-destin-dun-faussaire-par-vocation
KW - French literature
KW - memoirs
KW - literary forgery
KW - Étienne-Léonde Lamothe-Langon