Paul Ginisty

Paul Ginisty (4 April 1855 – 5 March 1932) was a French writer, columnist and journalist.

A regular columnist at Gil Blas, he met Guy de Maupassant who would dedicate him his short story . From 1896 to 1906, he was theatre manager for the Théâtre de l'Odéon, then became an inspector of monuments historiques.

Selected bibliography

 * 1881: Les Idylles parisiennes, (text online at Gallica).
 * 1883: Les Rastaquouères : études parisiennes, (text online at Gallica).
 * 1884: L'Amour à trois, foreword by Guy de Maupassant.
 * 1884: La Seconde Nuit, roman bouffe, (text online at Gallica).
 * 1888: Le Dieu bibelot, publisher A-Dupret
 * 1901: La Marquise de Sade
 * 1903: Vers la bonté, frontispice et fleurons by, hors-texte de Paul Steck, Paris, Joanin & Cie
 * 1907: Mémoires d'un danseuse de corde : Mme Saqui (1786-1866), (text online at Gallica).
 * 1914: ''Mémoires et souvenirs de comédiennes XVIIIe
 * 1922: Anthologie du journalisme du XVIIe siècle à nos jours
 * 1923: Les Nids d'aigles
 * 1925: Les Anciens Boulevards
 * 1929: Eugène Sue
 * 1930: Souvenirs de journalisme et de théâtre, (text online at Gallica).