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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN ADRIEN ANTOINE JULES JUSSERAND (1855- )  , French author and diplomatist, was born at Lyons on the 18th of
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February 1855 . Entering the
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diplomatic service in 1876, he became in 1878 consul in
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London . After an
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interval spent in
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Tunis he returned to London in 1887 as a member of the French
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Embassy . In 1890 he became French minister at Copenhagen; and in 1902 was transferred to Washington . A close student of
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English literature, he produced some very lucid and vivacious monographs on comparatively little-known subjects: Le Theatre en Angleterredepuislaconqueete jusqu' aux predecesseurs immediats de Shakespeare (1878); Le
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Roman au temps de Shakespeare (1887; Eng. trans. by
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Miss E . Lee, 189o);
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Les Anglais au moyen age: la
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vie nomade et les routes d'Angleterre au XI V' siecle (1884; Eng. trans., English Wayfaring
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Life in the
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Middle Ages, by L . T . Smith; 1889) ; and L'Epopee de Langland (1893; Eng. trans., Piers Plow-man, by M . C . R., 1894) . His Histoire litteraire du peuple anglais, the first
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volume of which was published in 1895, was completed in three volumes in 1909 . In English he wrote A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II .

(1892), from the unpublished papers of the

count de Cominges .

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