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PAUL MARGUERITTE (186o— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL MARGUERITTE (186o— )  and VICTOR (1866— ), French novelists, both born in Algeria, were the sons of General
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Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823—1870), who after an honourable career in Algeria was mortally wounded in the
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great cavalry charge at
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Sedan, and died in Belgium, on the 6th of September 187o . An account of his
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life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon Pere (1884; enlarged ed., 1897) . The names of the two brothers are generally associated, on account of their collaboration . Paul Margueritte, who has given a picture of his home in Algiers in Le Jardin du passe (1895), was sent to the military school of La Fleche for the sons of
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officers, and became in 188o clerk to the minister of public instruction . He designed two pantomimes, Pierrot assassin de sa femme (Theatre Libre, 1882), and Colombine pardonnee (Cercle funambulesque, 1888), in which the traditional Pierrot, played by Margueritte himself, became a
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nervous, tragic creature . He resigned his clerkship in 1889 to devote himself entirely to literature, producing in rapid succession a series of novels, among which were Tous quatre (1885), La Confession posthume (1886), Maison ouverte (1887), Pascal Gefosse (1887), Jours d'epreuve (1889), Amants (189o),La Force
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des choses (1891), Sur le retour (1892), La Tour mente (1893), Ma grande (1892), Ame d'enfant (1894) and L'Eau qui dort (1896) . Paul Margueritte had begun as a realistic novelist, but he was one of the five writers who signed a manifesto against Zola's La Terre, and he made his reputation by delicate, sober studies of the by-ways of sentiment . His
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brother Victor entered his
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father's regiment, the 1st chasseurs d'Afrique, in 1888, and served in the army until 1896, when he resigned his commission . He was already known by some volumes of
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poetry, and by a
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translation from Calderon (La Double meprise, played at the Odeon, 1898) when he began to collaborate with his brother . From the time of this collaboration Paul Margueritte's
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work gained in colour and force . Among the books written in
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common by the brothers, the most famous is the series known under the collective title, Une Epoque, dealing with the events of 187o-1871, and including the novels Le Desastre (1898),
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Les Tronrcons du glaive (19oo), Les Braves gens (19o1), La Commune (1904) . They also collaborated in an Histoire de la guerre de r87o-1871(1903) .

These books were founded on a

mass of documentary and verbal information, amassed with great care and arranged with admirable
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art; the authors are historians rather than novelists . The disasters and humiliations of the
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campaigns are faithfully described, but are traced to defects of organization and leadership; while the courage and patriotism of the army itself is made the 'basis of an assured confidence in the destinies of France . La Commune is a bold indictment of the methods adopted by the victorious party . The novelists also attacked the
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laws governing
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marriage and
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divorce and the abuses entailed by the dowry demanded from the bride, in
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pamphlets and in the novels, Femmes nouvelles (1899), Les Deux vies (1902), and Le Prisme (1905) . Their
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literary partner-
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ship was dissolved in 1907 . Paul Margueritte was one of the
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original members of the
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Academic de
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Goncourt . See P. et V . Margueritte (1905) by E . Pilon, in the series of Celebrites d'aujourd'hui, and A . France, La
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Vie litteraire (4th series, 1892) .

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