See also:CHARLES See also:PAUL DE See also:KOCK (1793-1871)
, See also:French novelist, was See also:born at Passy on the 21st of May 1793
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He was a See also:posthumous See also:child, his See also:father, a hanker of Dutch extraction, having been a victim of the Terror
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See also:Paul de See also:Kock began See also:life as a banker's clerk
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For the most See also:part he resided on the See also:Boulevard St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, and was one of the most inveterate of Parisians
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He died in See also:Paris on the 27th of See also:April 1871
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He began to write for the See also:stage very See also:early, and composed many operatic libretti
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His first novel, L'Enf See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant de ma femme (1811), was published at his own expense
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In 182o he began his See also:long and successful See also:series of novels dealing with Parisian life with Georgette, ou la See also:mere du
Tabellion
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His See also:period of greatest and most successful activity was the Restoration and the early days of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe
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He was relatively less popular in See also:France itself than abroad, where he was considered as the See also:special painter of life in Paris
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See also:Major Pendennis's remark that he had read nothing of the novel See also:kind for See also:thirty years except Paul de Kock, " who certainly made him laugh," is likely to remain one of the most durable of his testimonials, and may be classed with the legendary question of a See also:foreign See also:sovereign to a Frenchman who was paying his respects, " See also:Vous venez de Paris et vous devez savoir See also:des nouvelles
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Comment se See also:porte Paul de Kock?" The disappearance of the grisette and of the cheap dissipation described by See also:Henri Murger practically made Paul de Kock obsolete
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But to the student of See also:manners his See also:portraiture of See also:low and See also:middle class life in the first See also:half of the 19th See also:century at Paris still has its value
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The See also:works of Paul de Kock are very numerous
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With the exception of a few not very felicitous excursions into See also:historical See also:romance and some See also:miscellaneous works of which his See also:share in La Grande Dille, Paris (1842), is the See also:chief, they are all stories of middle-class Parisian life, of guinguettes and cabarets and equivocal adventures of one sort or another
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The most famous are See also:Andre le Savoyard (1825) and Le See also:Barbier de Paris (1826)
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His Memoires were published in 1893
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See also Th
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Trimm, La See also:Vie de See also:Charles Paul de Kock (1893)
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