Died Versailles, Yvelines, France |
Marie Édouard Magnien (Montfort-l'Amaury, 4 July 1795 – Versailles, after 1864) was a 19th-century French homme de lettres.
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Biography
The son of a lawyer in Parliament, Stéphane Mallarmé's great-great-cousin, a tutor in the Sarthe department, he is mostly known for his Pétition à la Chambre des Députés, sur la conservation des monuments français in 1826 and his participation in the writing of the play Le Secret d'état (1831) by Eugène Sue and Ferdinand de Villeneuve.
A founding member of the Société des Sciences naturelle, he resigned in 1864.
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