Louis-François L'Héritier explained

Louis-François L'Héritier
Birth Date:30 May 1788
Occupation:Playwright
Journalist
Novelist

Louis-François L'Héritier, also known under the name L'Héritier de l'Ain (30 May 1788[1] – 14 July 1852) was a 19th-century French playwright, essayist, novelist and journalist.

He collaborated on various liberal newspapers and wrote several novels with Henri Ducor. He also realized translations such as Histoire des révolutions des Pays-Bas by Friedrich von Schiller (1833) or Les Veillées allemandes, chroniques, contes, traditions et croyances populaires by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (1838).

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  1. Date given by Roger Pierrot in his critical study about Honoré de Balzac's Correspondance, published in 1960 by Garnier (p. 766). Joseph-Marie Quérard, Les Supercheries littéraires dévoilées, vol.5, 1853, (p. 251-252) (read online) indicates 30 May 1790 and provides 13 July 1852 for death date. The authority records give the date 1789 without further specification, taking the information from Vapereau.