Alfred Des Essarts Explained

Birth Name:Alfred Stanislas Langlois des Essarts
Birth Date:9 August 1811
Occupation:Poet
Translator
Plawright
Writer

Alfred des Essarts (9 August 1811 – 18 May 1893) was a 19th-century French poet, translator, playwright and writer, the father of Emmanuel des Essarts.

Biography

A curator at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, a journalist at La France littéraire and L'Écho français, he was also author of feuilletons, novels, songs and poems. His plays were staged at the Théâtre-Français and at the Théâtre du Vaudeville.

He also translated from Russian for Éditions Franck the memoirs of Princess Dashkova,[1] and from English for Hachette, several works by Charles Dickens such as The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit and The Old Curiosity Shop.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Mémoires de la princesse Daschkoff, dame d'honneur de Catherine II (1859).
  2. Vie et aventures de Martin Chuzzlewit (1866) text online and Le Magasin d'antiquités (1876).
  3. Played at the Théâtre-Français 18 August 1849.
  4. Played at the Théâtre du Vaudeville 22 August 1853.
  5. http://livre.fnac.com/mp23945267/Une-petite-fille-de-Robinson-par-Alfred-Des-Essarts-Edition-de-1861 Une Petite-fille de Robinson
  6. https://www.abebooks.fr/rechercher-livre/titre/les-grands-peintres/auteur/alfred-des-essarts/ Les Grands peintres