Amable Bapaume

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Amable Bapaume (26 March 1825 – 7 July 1898) was a French writer, playwright and journalist. He taught in Paris at the collège Sainte-Barbe and at Massin. In 1847 he published his first novel, Juana la Lionne. In the 1860s, under the pen name Henri Normand, he wrote several vaudeville comedies, mostly with Jean-Louis-Auguste Commerson, the director of Le Tintamarre. He left teaching to contribute humorous articles to Le Tintamarre, including a series of Medallions that drew the ire of some actresses he mocked. When Commerson sold Tintamarre and relaunched Tam-Tam in 1872, Bapaume followed and wrote there under the name Commodore. Tam-Tam was known for wild imagination and sharp humor. He published La Rome tintamarresque, a funny, anecdotal history of Rome and Napoleon, between 1870 and 1872. After Commerson died in 1879, Bapaume became owner and chief editor of Tam-Tam and continued to publish novels into old age.