Louis Amédée Achard

Louis Amédée Eugène Achard (19 April 1814 – 25 March 1875) was a prolific French novelist.

After a short stay near Algiers, where he supervised a farm, he went to Toulouse, and then Marseille, where he became a journalist and wrote for the Sémaphore.

Achard wrote extensively for the Époque, even writing for his colleagues when they lacked inspiration.

He then collaborated in the satirical journal Le Pamphlet, and was gravely wounded in a duel with a man named Fiorentino, whom he had defamed.

While still convalescent, he left for Italy with the French Army to cover the war for the Journal des Débats.