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See also:CLAUDE See also:ADHEMAR See also:ANDRE See also:THEURIET (1833-1907) , See also:French poet and novelist, was See also:born at Marly-le-Roi (See also:Seine et See also:Oise) on the 8th of See also:October 1833, and was educated at See also:Bar-le-Due in his See also:mother's See also:province of See also:Lorraine . He studied See also:law in See also:Paris and entered the public service, attaining the See also:rank of chef de See also:bureau before his retirement in 1886 . He published in 1867 the Clzemin See also:des bois, a See also:volume of poems, many of which had already appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes; Le bleu et le noir, poemes de la See also:vie reelle (1874), Nos oiseaux (1886), and other volumes followed . M . See also:Theuriet gives natural, See also:simple pictures of rustic and especially of woodland See also:life, and See also:Theophile See also:Gautier compared him to Jaques in the See also:forest of See also:Arden . The best of his novels are those that See also:deal with provincial and See also:country life . Among them are: Le mariage de See also:Gerard (1875); Raymonde (1877); Le fits Maugars (1879); La maison des deux Barbeaux (1879); Souvageonne (188o); Reine des bois (1890); See also:Villa tranquille (1899); Le manuscrit du clzanoine (1902) . Theuriet received in 1890 the prix See also:Vitet from the French See also:Academy, of which he became a member in 1896 . He died on the 23rd of See also:April 1907, and was succeeded at the Academy by M . See also:Jean See also:Richepin . See Emm . Besson, See also:Andre Theuriet (1890) .
TH$VENOT, JEAN DE (1633-1667); French traveller in the See also:East, was born in Paris on the 16th of See also:June 1633, and received his See also:education in the See also:college of See also:Navarre
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The perusal of See also:works of travel moved him to go abroad, and his circumstances permitted him to please himself
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Leaving See also:France in 1652, he first visited See also:England, See also: He was in India for thirteen months, and crossed the country by See also:Golconda to See also:Masulipatam, returning overland to Surat, from which he sailed to Bander-Abbasi and went up to Shiraz . He passed the summer of 1667 at Isfahan, disabled by an accidental See also:pistol-shot, and in October started for See also:Tabriz, but died on the way at Miyana on the 28th of November 1667 . Thevenot was an accomplished linguist, skilled in See also:Turkish, Arabic and See also:Persian, and a curious and diligent observer . He was also well skilled in the natural sciences, especially in See also:botany, for which he made large collections in India . His See also:personal See also:character was admirable, and his writings are still esteemed, though it has been justly observed that, unlike See also:Chardin, he saw only the outside of Eastern life . The See also:account of his first See also:journey was published at Paris in 1665; it forms the first See also:part of his collected Voyages . The See also:licence is dated See also:December 1663, and the See also:preface shows that Thevenot himself arranged it for publication before leaving on his second voyage . The second and third parts were posthumously published from his See also:journals in 1674 and 1684 (all 4to) . A collected edition appeared at Paris in 1689, and a second in 12mo at See also:Amsterdam in 1727 (5 vols.) . There is an indifferent English See also:translation by A . See also:Lovell (fol., See also:London, 1687) . |
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