Henry Fouquier

Jacques François Henry Fouquier, (1 September 1838 – 25 December 1901) was a French journalist, writer, playwright and politician. He wrote for many newspapers and journals, often pseudonymously but with a style recognisably his own. He was best known as the chief theatre critic of Le Figaro. Life and career Early years Henry Fouquier was born in Marseille, the son of a notary. He studied medicine and law but was drawn to neither calling. He was brought up to have liberal values, and throughout his life was proud of his native city, but according to one obituarist the bourgeois spirit of his surroundings did not appeal to him. At the age of 22 he began travelling and spent several years in Spain, Italy and later Switzerland, where he entered the Geneva Institute, studying Italian painting.