Léon Guérin

Léon Guérin (1807-1885) was a French author, poet, and naval historian.

Guérin started writing tales and short stories under his given name, as well as the noms de plume 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.

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