Jean-Baptiste Esménard
Jean-Baptiste Esménard was a French journalist and brother to the poet Joseph-Alphonse Esménard.Life
Fighting under the First French Empire as an army officer, but revolutionary left France in 1792 to settle in Bourbon Spain where he remained until the Peninsular War. Later, after the defeat of Joseph I, he was forced to return in France.
As journalist he wrote for Gazette de France, La Quotidienne, Le Mercure de France, Revue encyclopédique, Journal Militaire and as translator.
He was imprisoned in the Force from 1810 to 1814 for a Legitimist plot.
He contributed to Gazette de France, La Quotidienne, Journal des Débats and Mercure, and translated a large part of the memoirs of Manuel Godoy, the Prince de la Paix.External Links
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