Eugène Mouton
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1823 – 1902
Who was Eugène Mouton?
Pierre Martin Désiré Eugène Mouton was a French writer of comic, adventure, and fantastical literature, and is considered an early writer of science fiction. He wrote under the name Mérinos. The son of a military officer father and a Creole mother, he lived in Guadeloupe until the age of ten. In 1848 he became a magistrate; his career progressed upward for the next 20 years, and he rose to the rank of prosecutor. During his time in Rodez he helped to implement one of the first mobile libraries in France.
He wrote for various newspapers, and his first story was published in 1857 when L'Invalide à la tête de bois appeared in Le Figaro under the pen name of Mérinos. His subsequent success caused him to resign from the magistracy in 1868 in order to devote himself to writing. His principal works are Les lois pénales en France, Nouvelles et fantaisies humoristisques, Voyages et aventures du Marius Cougourdan, and Histoire de l'invalide à la tête de bois.
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