Léon Guérin

Léon Guérin (1807–1885) was a French writer, poet, and naval historian.

Guérin started writing tales and short stories under his given name, as well as the pen names ''Guérin-Dulion'' and ''Léonide de Mirbel''. In 1829, he published ''Chants Lyriques et Autres Essais Poétiques''. He then founded two children's newspapers|newspapers, the ''Journal des Enfants'', and later the ''Gazette des Enfants et des Jeunes Personnes''.

Later in life, Guérin specialised as a historian, and became one of the historiographs of the French Navy in 1846. Provided by Wikipedia