author became famous later for an unintended and bizarre reason. Early in the 20th century, extensive passages from Joly's book were used to fraudulently concoct The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous Russian-made antisemitic literary forgery. Neither the Dialogue itself, nor the text copied from it were antisemitic. They merely formed the scaffolding upon which the calumny against the Jewish people was built. An abundance of evidence from the Berne Trial and other research established that The Protocols were lavishly plagiarized from Joly's book. In his book Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994), Italian writer Umberto Eco claims that in the Dialogue, Joly plagiarized seven pages or more from a popular novel by Eugene Sue. Joly is also a character in Eco's novel, The Prague Cemetery. In 2015 one of the streets in was named Rue Maurice Joly. Publications 1863: Le Barreau de Paris, études politiques et littéraires. Paris, Gosselin. 1863: Les Principes de 89 par Maurice Joly, avocat. Paris, E. Dentu. 1864: Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu|Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ou la politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle. Bruxelles, A. Mertens et fils. 1865: César, Paris, Martin-Beaupré frères. 1868: Recherches sur l'art de parvenir. Paris, Amyot. 1870: Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme, par lui-même. Paris, Lacroix, Verbɶckhoven et Co. 1870: Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Épilogue. Le Gaulois: littéraire et politique, 664, 30 April 1870, pp.2-3; La Cloche 2 May 1870 - 10 May 1870. 1872: Le Tiers-Parti républicain. Paris, E. Dentu. 1876: Les Affamés, étude de mœurs contemporains. Paris, E. Dentu. References External links 1829 births 1878 deaths 1870s suicides People from Lons-le-Saunier 19th-century French writers French people of Italian descent Protocols of the Elders of Zion French satirists 19th-century French lawyers French monarchists People of the Second French Empire Suicides by firearm in France