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Title: French men, women and books : a series of nineteenth-century studies
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919
Subjects: French literature
Publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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votion. A most dignified and patheticfigure is this humble bookseller of Charlotte Cor-days beautiful old city. Fame he only sought toenjoy vicariously; fortune never came within thecompass of his dreams. Placidly, disinterestedly, lovingly he plodded on,in his workmanship finding the desired reward. Aswrought mediaeval artists, builders and craftsmenwhose achievements are monumental, but whose verynames have perished, so wrought Barbey dAure-villys publisher. Frangois-Guillaume-Stanislas Trebutien (1800-1870) came of an old and highly respectable familylong settled in Normandy. Destined for the Bar,his passion for books decided the future. A fewyears were spent in Paris, during which period hewas occupied with ill-remunerated journalism andbibliographical undertakings. In 1833 he paid ashort visit to England, bringing back some know-ledge of our language, and, as his biographer tells,ever recalling the experience with affection. Manyfriends he made whilst among us, and it is not sur-
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AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER 103 prising to find this devout Catholic and fastidiouscritic bringing out a translation of Newmans Dreamof Gerontius. This was published in 1869, theliteral rendering being the work of a lady, and thebook, from a bibliographical point of view, beingdescribed as a chef-doeuvre. The same seems to have been the case with mostof the works issuing from Le Blanc-Hardel—thusTrebutiens press was called. Among other elabor-ate and costly volumes published by him—raretreasure-trove in Paris now-a-days—may be men-tioned a costly work on Normand faience, and manyeditions of old French lays. But it was Orientalliterature that exercised the strongest fascinationover the booksellers mind. Not only was he editorbut translator of the Arabian Nights, and—thusavers his biographer^—the introductory story, onwhich the others hang as on a thread, is Trebutiensinvention. Trebutien had projected a volume on Orientalliterature, and studies of Racine and of Mme. deSevigne. Death

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