Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry (28 December 17697 November 1859), was a French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician. He was the father of Emile de Kératry. Life Hilarion was born in Rennes in Brittany. Coming to Paris in 1790, he associated himself with Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. After being twice imprisoned during the Reign of Terror he retired to his native region, where he devoted himself to literature until 1814. In 1818, after the Bourbon Restoration, he returned to Paris as deputy for Finistère, and sat in the Chamber of Deputies until 1824, becoming one of the recognized liberal leaders. He was re-elected in 1827, took an active part in the establishment of the July Monarchy, was appointed a councillor of state (1830), and in 1837 was made a Peer of France. A member of the French National Assembly during the Second French Republic, he retired from public life after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte coup d'etat of 1851. He died in Port-Marly. Works Contes et Idylles (1791) Lysus et Cydippe (a poem; 1801) Inductions morales et physiologiques (1817) Documents pour servir à l'histoire de France (1820) Du Beau dans les arts d'imitation (1822) Le Dernier des Beaumanoir (1824) Clarisse (a novel; 1854) References 1769 births 1859 deaths Writers from Rennes Counts of the First French Empire 19th-century French historians French literary critics 18th-century French novelists 19th-century French novelists 18th-century French politicians People of the French Revolution Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy French male essayists French male poets French male novelists French male short story writers 19th-century French short story writers 19th-century French male writers 18th-century essayists 19th-century French essayists 18th-century French male writers