He edited the Revue de Paris and published La Cloche, which was suppressed in 1869 for its hostility to the Second French Empire.

[1] He was a member of Jules Simon's salon with Edmond François Valentin About and other Frenchmen to discuss literary, political, and other current events.

[1] When Elisabeth of Wied, the Queen of Romania, was a girl, Ulbrach was said to have been her literary professor in Paris.

[1] Louis Ulbach was credited with "introducing the world to the pleasant pretty book of the Queen of Romania, the 'Pensees d'une Reine'.

[3] After he graduated from college in 1845, he founded the La Revue des Famillies publication at Troyes.

Gosselin, published in an English version, and his novels The Steel Hammer, and its sequel For Fifteen.

The feuilleton, which dealt ostensibly with literature, the drama and other harmless topics, but which, nevertheless, could make political capital out of the failure of a book or a play, under the Napoleonic nose, became a power.

[4][10] He became dramatic critic of the Temps, and attracted attention by a series of satirical letters addressed to Le Figaro over the signature of 'Ferragus', and published separately in 1868.

[4] Ulbach was imprisoned for six months at Sainte-Pélagie Prison after he had written that the Greek translation of Napoleon was "executioner".