Petrus Borel (26 June 1809 – 14 July 1859) was a French writer of the Romantic movement. Born Joseph-Pierre Borel d'Hauterive at Lyon, the 12 of 14 children of an ironmonger, he studied architecture in Paris but abandoned it for literature. Nicknamed le Lycanthrope (“wolfman”), and the center of the circle of Bohemians in Paris, he was noted for extravagant and eccentric writing, foreshadowing Surrealism. He was not commercially successful though, and eventually was found a minor civil service post by his friends, including Théophile Gautier. He died at Mostaganem in Algeria.
Dans ce pamphlet vigoureux, Pétrus Borel s’insurge contre l’acquisition de l’obélisque de Louqsor, cadeau diplomatique du vice-roi égyptien. Nous sommes en 1833, soit trois ans avant que l’obélisque ne soit érigé sur la place de la Concorde, et quatre ans avant la création de la...
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