EDMOND See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS VALENTIN ABOUT (1828-1885)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French novelist, publicist and journalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 14th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1828, at Dieuze, in See also:

• LORRAINE

Lorraine . The boy's school career was brilliant . In 1848 he entered the Ecole Normale, taking the second See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

• ANNUAL

annual competition for See also:

• ADMISSION

admission, See also:

• TAINE, HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE (1828-1893)

Taine being first . Among his See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college contemporaries were Taine, Francisque, See also:

• SARCEY, FRANCISQUE (1827-1899)

Sarcey, Challemel-Lacour and the See also:

• ILL

ill-starred See also:

• PREVOST, ANTOINE FRANCOIS (1697–1763)
• PREVOST, CONSTANT (1787-1856)
• PREVOST, EUGENE MARCEL (1862- )
• PREVOST, PIERRE (1751-1839)

Prevost-Paradol . Of them all About was, according to Sarcey, the most highly vitalized, exuberant, brilliant and " undisciplined." At the end of his college career he joined the French school in See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, but if we may believe his own 'See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, it had never been his intention to follow the professorial career, for which the Ecole Normale was a preparation, and in 1853 he returned to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and frankly gave himself to literature and journalism . A See also:

• BOOK

book on See also:

• GREECE

Greece, La Grece contemporaine (1855), which did not spare See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek susceptibilities, had an immediate success . In Tolla (1855) About was charged with See also:

• DRAWING

drawing too freely on an earlier See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian novel, See also:

• VITTORIA

Vittoria Savelli (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1841) . This caused a strong See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice against him, and he was the See also:

• OBJECT

object of numerous attacks, to which he was ready enough to retaliate . The Lettres d'un bon jeune homme, written to the See also:

• FIGARO

Figaro under the See also:

• SIGNATURE (through Fr. from Lat. signature, signare, to sign, signum, mark, token, sign)

signature of Valentin de Quevilly, provoked more animosities . During the next few years, with indefatigable See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy, and generally with full public recognition, he wrote novels, stories, a See also:

• PLAY

play—which failed,—a book-pamphlet on the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman question, many See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets on other subjects of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, newspaper articles innumerable, some See also:

• ART

art criticisms, rejoinders to the attacks of his enemies, and popular manuals of See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• ECONOMY

economy, L'A BC du travailleur (1868), Le progres (1864) . About's attitude towards the See also:

• EMPIRE

empire was that of a candid friend . He believed in its improvability, greeted the liberal See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry of Emile 011ivier at the beginning of 187o with delight and welcomed the Franco-See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War .

That day of See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm had a terrible morrow . For his own See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• PART

part he lost the loved See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home near Saverne in See also:

• ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Alsace, which he had See also:

• PURCHASED

purchased in 1858 out of the fruits of his earlier See also:

• LITERARY

literary successes . With the fall of the empire he became a republican, and, always an inveterate See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-clerical, he threw himself with ardour into the See also:

• BATTLE

battle against the conservative reaction which made See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head during the first years of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic . From 1872 onwards for some five or six years his See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper, the XIX ° Siecle, of which he was the See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart and soul, became a See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in the See also:

• LAND

land . But the republicans never quite forgave the tardiness of his See also:

• CONVERSION (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

conversion, and no place rewarded his later zeal . On the 23rd See also:

• JANUARY

January 1884 he was elected a member of the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, but died on the 16th of January 1885, before taking his seat . His journalism—of which specimens in his earlier and later See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners will be found in the two See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Lettres d'un bon jeune homme a sa See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin Madeleine (1861 and 1863), and the See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous collection, Le See also:

• DIX, DOROTHEA LYNDE (1802-1887)
• DIX, JOHN

dix-neuvieme siecle (1892)—was of its nature ephemeral . So were the pamphlets, See also:

• GREAT

great and small . His political economy See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM 69 was that of an orthodox popularizer, and in no sense See also:

• EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch-making . His dramas are negligible . His more serious novels, Madelon (1863), L'infdme (1867), the three that See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the trilogy of the Vieille See also:

• ROCHE, SIR BOYLE, BART

Roche (1866), and Le roman d'un brave homme (188o) —a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in See also:

• ZOLA, EMILE EDOUARD CHARLES ANTOINE (1840-1902)

Zola's Assommoir—contain striking and amusing scenes, no doubt, but scenes which are often suggestive of the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, while description, dissertation, explanation too frequently take the place of See also:

• LIFE

life . His best See also:

• WORK

work after all is to be found in the books that are almost wholly farcical, Le nez d'un notaire (1862); Le roi See also:

• DES

des montagnes (1856); L'homme d l'oreille cassee (1862); Trente et quarante (1858); Le cas de M .

See also:

• GUERIN, JEAN BAPTISTE PAULIN (1783-1855)
• GUERIN, PIERRE NARCISSE, BARON (1774-1833)

Guerin (1862) . Here his most genuine wit, his sprightliness, his vivacity, the See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy that was in him, have See also:

• FREE

free play . " You will never be more than a little See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire," said one of his masters when he was a lad at school . It was a true prophecy . (F . T .