Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry

Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry (28 December 1769 – 7 November 1859), was a French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician.

Coming to Paris in 1790, he associated himself with Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

After being twice imprisoned during the Reign of Terror he retired to his native region, where he devoted himself to literature until 1814.

He was re-elected in 1827, took an active part in the establishment of the July Monarchy, was appointed a councillor of state (1830), and in 1837 was made a Peer of France.

[1] A member of the French National Assembly during the Second French Republic, he retired from public life after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte coup d'etat of 1851.