Philibert Audebrand was one of the most productive journalists of his century. In 1857, Charles Monselet was already saying about him, "One could cover the entire surface of the Place du Carrousel with the prodigious total of this man of letter's writing." He was not only a part of the Bohemian set and the world of small newspapers, he was also their historian, with, most notably, a series of articles about the small press that he never gathered into a single volume, and his study, which has become a classic, Derniers jours de la bohème : souvenirs de la vie littéraire (The Last Days of Bohemia: Memories of a Literary Life, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1905), which recreated the atmosphere in the Brasserie des Martyrs café. Close to Nadar, he dedicated Ceux qui mangent la pomme (Those who Eat the Apple, 1882) to him, writing: "Some day, when history tells our nephews about the captain of the Géant, it will explain that, from 1850 to 1880, you were the iconic Parisian, applauded on Earth and in the Heavens."