Alfred Des Essarts
Born
Alfred Stanislas Langlois des Essarts

9 August 1811
Died18 May 1893(1893-05-18) (aged 81)
Occupation(s)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]

Works

Bibliography

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. ^ Une Petite-fille de Robinson
  6. ^ Les Grands peintres