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Léo Lespès (1815–1875)
Lespès, Léo (les-pās’). A French story-teller; born at Bouchain, June 18, 1815; died at Paris, April 29, 1875. He wrote for the minor Paris newspapers, under the signature “Timothy Trimm,” a number of short stories, which were received with extraordinary popular favor. He founded the Petit Journal (1862), which immediately reached the then unexampled circulation of 200,000 copies. Among his stories, which were frequently republished, are: ‘Stories in Pink and Black’ (1842); ‘Mysteries of the Grand Opera’ (1843); ‘A Story to Make You Shudder’; ‘Physiology of Champagne’ (1866); ‘Walks about Paris’ (1867).