Hugues Le Roux
{{Short description|French writer and journalist (1860–1925)}}
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| birth_name = Robert Charles Henri Le Roux
| birth_date = 1860
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| death_date = 1925
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Robert Charles Henri Le Roux (1860–1925), known by the pen name Hugues Le Roux, was a French writer and journalist. He wrote primarily about the French colonies and travel.{{Cite book
| publisher = Imprimerie Jean Cussac
| last = Le Roux
| first = Hughes
| title = Togo: The Hugues Le Roux Mission - World Digital Library
| location = Paris
| accessdate = 2014-06-19
| date = 1918
| url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2540/#regions=africa&page=5
}}
Early life
He was the son of Charles Clovis Le Roux and Henriette Gourgaud. Robert was a journalist for "La Revue Politique et Littéraire," "Le Temps," "Le Figaro," "Le Journal," and "Le Matin." In addition, Robert Charles wrote books and novels.
On 11 January 1920, he became a senator until his death on 14 November 1925.{{Cite web|url=http://www.senat.fr/senateur-3eme-republique/le_roux_hugues1668r3.html|title = Anciens sénateurs IIIème République : LE ROUX Hugues}} Earlier in his career,{{when|date=January 2016}} he was the private secretary of Alphonse Daudet. He had written for Daudet, "La belle Nivernaise" and "Tartarin sur les Alpes"{{clarify|date=January 2016}}{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MnDvxTYYsZsC&pg=PT84 | title=C'était les Daudet| isbn=9782081297678| last1=Giocanti| first1=Stéphane| date=2013-01-16}}
Work
- L'Attentat Sloughine, J. Lévy, Paris, 1885
- Médéric et Lisée, J. Lévy, Paris, 1887
- Le Frère lai, 1888
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k69074x.r=Mr%20Hugues%20Le%20Roux Chez les filles], Victor Havard, 1888
- L'Enfer parisien, Victor-Havard, Paris, 1888
- Notre patron Alphonse Daudet, 1888
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k204571t/f8.image.langFR Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine], illustrations de Jules Garnier, Plon, 1889
- Le Chemin du crime, Paris, Harvard, 1889, 265 p.
- Les Larrons, G. Charpentier, Paris, 1890
- Les Fleurs à Paris, Quantin, Paris, 1890
- Au Sahara, Mar pon & Flammarion, 1891
- Portraits de cire, Paris, Lecene, oudin, 3e éd.,1891, 446 p. Souvenirs de Maupassant
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9602883x.r=Mr%20Hugues%20Le%20Roux Tout pour l'honneur], C. Lévy, Paris, 1892
- Marins et soldats, C. Lévy, Paris, 1892
- Les mondains, Calmann Levy, 1893, 331 p.
- Gladys Paris, Calmann Lévy, 5e édition, 1894, 325 p.
- Je deviens colon. mœurs algériennes, 3e édition, Calmann-levy, 1895
- Notes sur la Norvège, C. Lévy, Paris, 1895
- "Le Festéjadou" recits du sud - calmann levy editeur 1895
- Ô mon passé...Mémoires d’un enfant, Calman Lévy, 1896
- Le maître de l’heure, Calmann-levy, 1897
- Les Amants byzantins, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1897
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5515974f.r=Mr%20Hugues%20Le%20Roux Nos filles. Qu’en ferons-nous?] , Calmann Lévy, 1898.* Nos fils - Que feront-ils? 1899
- Gens de poudre, 1899
- L’attentat Sloughine, mœurs terroristes années 1890 à 1920, Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1900
- Le Bilan du divorce, 1900
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6541435d.r=Ménélik%20et%20nous%20%20Hugues%20Le%20Roux Ménélik et nous], Paris, Librairie Nilsson, 1901,446 pp.
- Voyage au Ouallaga. Itinéraire d’Addis-Ababa au Nil bleu (avec une carte hors texte), dans le bulletin de la société de géographie, Masson, 1901
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106342w.r=Ménélik%20et%20nous%20%20Hugues%20Le%20Roux Prisonniers marocains], l’épopée d’Afrique, Calmann-levy, 1903
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103605r.r=Ménélik%20et%20nous%20%20Hugues%20Le%20Roux Chasses et gens d’Abyssinie], Calmann-levy , 1903
- Le Wyoming, 1904
- Ô mon passé, illustrations De J. Jamet. Paris, Ideal-Bibliothèque Pierre Lafitte Et Cie, 1910, 113 p.
- Au champ d’honneur, Plon, 1916
- Niger et Tchad, Mission Hugues Le Roux, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, 1918
- Te souviens-tu ?, Plon 1920
= Theatre =
- Crime et châtiment, drame, adaptation de l'oeuvre de F. Dostoievski, avec Paul Ginistry, Théâtre de l'Odeon, Paris, 1888
- L'Instantané, vaudeville avec Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, octobre 1901
References
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External links
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- {{Gutenberg author | id=40403| name=Hugues le Roux}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Hugues Le Roux}}
- {{Cite book
| last = Garnier
| first = Jules
|author2=Hughes Le Roux
| title = Acrobats and Mountebanks
| accessdate = 2014-06-19
| date = 1890
| url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45587?msg=welcome_stranger
}}
- {{Cite news
| last = Aldrich
| first = Mildred
| title = THIS YEAR'S FRENCH LECTURER AT HARVARD - Hugues Le Roux as Author, Journalist, and Lecturer. His Charm as a Conferencier - Is Forty Years Old, Speaks English with Ease, and Hates Automobiles
| work = New York Times
| accessdate = 2014-06-19
| date = 1901-11-24
| url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B07E1D81130E132A25757C2A9679D946097D6CF
}}
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- Côte d'Ivoire : mission Hugues Le Roux, 1918 disponible sur Gallica
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