de Victor Hugo (1886), Le Compte Orphee (1878), and Les Buveurs de poisons: la fée verte (1879). He is also known for Mme. Gosselin, published in an English version, and his novels The Steel Hammer, and its sequel For Fifteen. The Confession of an Abbe was published in English by the month of his death. Described as a powerful story, it tells the story of a priest who "in a moment of passion forgets his vows." The Steel Hammer was another of his books that was translated into English. Ulbach was a Feuilletonist. The feuilleton was the literary consequence of the Coup of 18 Brumaire (Dix-huit-Brumaire). The feuilleton, which dealt ostensibly with literature, the drama and other harmless topics, but which, nevertheless, could make political capital out of the failure of a book or a play, under the Napoleonic nose, became a power. He was connected with L'Indépendance Belge for many years. He edited the Revue de Paris from 1852 until its suppression in 1858. He became dramatic critic of the Temps, and attracted attention by a series of satirical letters addressed to Le Figaro over the signature of 'Ferragus', and published separately in 1868. As Ferragus, he called the novel Thérèse Raquin "putrid" in a long diatribe. It was said sarcastically of Ulbach that he was so painfully careful with his style that "he would split a hair in four." In 1868 he founded a weekly journal, La Cloche, patterned after La Lanterne by Henri Rochefort. La Cloche was suppressed in 1869 for its hostility to the empire. Ulbach was imprisoned for six months at Sainte-Pélagie Prison after he had written that the Greek translation of Napoleon was "executioner". Upon on his release he revived the paper he got into trouble both with the commune and the government, and was again imprisoned in 1871–1872. When he was released, he devoted himself to literature and withdrew from politics. He was the editor of Raillement in 1876. In 1878 he was made librarian of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He was a leader in the movement for perpetual copyright to authors. References Further reading The polemic between Louis Ulbach and Emile Zola concerning Thérèse Raquin at the moment of the novel's publication gave Zola the chance to develop his thoughts on the relation between science and literature in his responses to Ulbach and in his prefaces to the novel. External links 1822