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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUSSERAND, See also:JEAN ADRIEN See also:ANTOINE JULES (1855- ) , See also:French author and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 18th of See also:February 1855. Entering the See also:diplomatic service in 1876, he became in 1878 See also:consul in See also:London. After an See also:interval spent in See also:Tunis he returned to London in 1887 as a member of the French See also:Embassy. In 1890 he became French See also:minister at See also:Copenhagen; and in 1902 was transferred to See also:Washington. A See also:close student of See also:English literature, he produced some very lucid and vivacious monographs on comparatively little-known subjects: Le See also:Theatre en Angleterredepuislaconqueete jusqu' aux predecesseurs immediats de See also:Shakespeare (1878); Le See also:Roman au temps de Shakespeare (1887; Eng. trans. by See also:Miss E. See also:Lee, 189o); See also:Les Anglais au moyen See also:age: la See also:vie nomade et les routes d'Angleterre au XI V' siecle (1884; Eng. trans., English Wayfaring See also:Life in the See also:Middle Ages, by L. T. See also:Smith; 1889) ; and L'Epopee de See also:Langland (1893; Eng. trans., Piers Plow-See also:man, by M. C. R., 1894). His Histoire litteraire du peuple anglais, the first See also:volume of which was published in 1895, was completed in three volumes in 1909. In English he wrote A French See also:Ambassador at the See also:Court of See also:Charles II.

(1892), from the unpublished papers of the See also:

count de Cominges.

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