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ANTOINE GUSTAVE DROZ (1832-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTOINE GUSTAVE See also:DROZ (1832-1895)  , See also:French See also:man of letters, son of the sculptor J . A . See also:Droz (1807—1872), was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:June 1832 . He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the See also:Salon of 1857 . A See also:series of sketches dealing gaily and lightly with the intimacies of See also:family See also:life, published in the See also:Vie parisienne and issued in See also:book See also:form as See also:Monsieur, Madame et Bebe (1866), won for the author an immediate and See also:great success . Entre nous (1867) was built on a similar See also:plan, and was followed by some psychological novels: Le Cahier bleu de Mlle Cibot (1868) ; Autour d'une source (1869); Un Paquet de lettres (187o) ; Babolein (1872); See also:Les Etangs (1875); L'Enfant (1885) . His Tristesses et sourires (1884) is a delicate See also:analysis of the niceties of family intercourse and its difficulties . Droz's first book was translated into See also:English under the See also:title of Papa, Mamma and Baby (1887) . Un See also:Ate a la campagne, a book which caused considerable See also:scandal, was erroneously attributed to him . He died on the 22nd of See also:October 1895 .

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