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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, 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 stage very early, and composed many operatic libretti
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His first novel, L'Enf See also: ant de ma femme (1811), was published at his own expense
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In 182o he began his long and successful 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 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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Major Pendennis's remark that he had read nothing of the novel 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 low and See also: middle class life in the first See also: half of the 19th 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 share in La Grande Dille, Paris (1842), is the 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 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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