Louis Lemercier de Neuville

Louis Lemercier de Neuville
Engraved portrait after a photograph (before 1894)
Born	Louis Lemercier 2 July 1830 Laval, Mayenne
Died	1918 Nice
Occupation	Journalist Puppeteer Playwright
Spouse(s)	Ghislaine Antoinette Kuppens (5 July 1858) Céline Donnancé (11 July 1917).

Louis Lemercier de Neuville or La Haudussière, real name Louis Lemercier, (2 July 1830 - 1918) was a French puppeteer, journalist, columnist, playwright and storyteller. He created the French Théâtre de Pupazzi.

Louis was the son of Louis Lemercier from Laval and Louise Deneuville, born in Rennes. He studied at Lycée de Laval from 1842 to 1846. He began with a brief career in the Post Office. He then founded several ephemeral periodicals: March 4, 1855, he launched his first newspaper entitled La Muselière, journal de la décadence intellectuelle. He later wrote for L'Indépendance dramatique. fairly regularly and published, in 1855 and 1856, the Pastiches critiques des auteurs contemporains, the Inconnus célèbres, the Miettes de pain perdues, roman de genre. At the end of 1856, he became chief editor of L'Exemple. In 1857, he wrote mails from Paris in the Presse théâtrale and had a comédie en vaudeville played at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique: Recette pour marier ses filles.

In 1858, he founded Le Parisien, an illustrated journal to 10 cents. He also directed the Foyer 17 and 18 April 1858.

He married Ghislaine Antoinette Kuppens 5 July 1858. In December of that year, in collaboration with Victor Cochinat, he published Guide des Fumeurs. In January 1859, he founded la Causerie. He replaced Jules Moinaux as chief editor of the Zouave. In December, he established the Nouvelles de Paris.

He later collaborated with several newspapers including Le Figaro, Le Nain jaune, Le Monde illustré.

In 1860, he opened a mobile pupazzi theatre staging celebrities of the moment as caricatures. It was a great success in the salons of the late nineteenth. He published various types of books, including comédies en vaudeville, small novels etc. He married Céline Donnancé in Nice, 11 July 1917.

Lucienne de Saint-Mart (6 October 1866, Laval - 28 March 1953, Laguna Beach), a painter, wife of Georges-Maximilien de Saint-Mart, was his daughter. She lived in the United States and from 1910 to 1918, in Russia, at Nicholas II of Russia's court (she painted a portrait of the tsar). She left Russia at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1917.