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MARGUERITTE, PAUL (186o— )

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MARGUERITTE, See also:PAUL (186o— ) and See also:VICTOR (1866— ), See also:French novelists, both See also:born in See also:Algeria, were the sons of See also:General See also:Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823—1870), who after an See also:honourable career in Algeria was mortally wounded in the See also:great See also:cavalry See also:charge at See also:Sedan, and died in See also:Belgium, on the 6th of See also:September 187o. An See also:account of his See also:life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon Pere (1884; enlarged ed., 1897). The names of the two See also:brothers are generally associated, on account of their collaboration. Paul Margueritte, who has given a picture of his See also:home in See also:Algiers in Le Jardin du passe (1895), was sent to the military school of La See also:Fleche for the sons of See also:officers, and became in 188o clerk to the See also:minister of public instruction. He designed two pantomimes, See also:Pierrot See also:assassin de sa femme (See also:Theatre Libre, 1882), and Colombine pardonnee (Cercle funambulesque, 1888), in which the traditional Pierrot, played by Margueritte himself, became a See also:nervous, tragic creature. He resigned his clerkship in 1889 to devote himself entirely to literature, producing in rapid See also:succession a See also:series of novels, among which were Tous quatre (1885), La See also:Confession posthume (1886), Maison ouverte (1887), See also:Pascal Gefosse (1887), Jours d'epreuve (1889), Amants (189o),La Force See also:des choses (1891), Sur le retour (1892), La Tour mente (1893), Ma grande (1892), Ame d'enfant (1894) and L'Eau qui See also:dort (1896). Paul Margueritte had begun as a realistic novelist, but he was one of the five writers who signed a manifesto against See also:Zola's La Terre, and he made his reputation by delicate, sober studies of the by-ways of sentiment. His See also:brother Victor entered his See also:father's See also:regiment, the 1st chasseurs d'Afrique, in 1888, and served in the See also:army until 1896, when he resigned his See also:commission. He was already known by some volumes of See also:poetry, and by a See also:translation from See also:Calderon (La See also:Double meprise, played at the Odeon, 1898) when he began to collaborate with his brother. From the See also:time of this collaboration Paul Margueritte's See also:work gained in See also:colour and force. Among the books written in See also:common by the brothers, the most famous is the series known under the collective See also:title, Une Epoque, dealing with the events of 187o-1871, and including the novels Le Desastre (1898), See also:Les Tronrcons du glaive (19oo), Les Braves gens (19o1), La See also:Commune (1904). They also collaborated in an Histoire de la guerre de r87o-1871(1903).

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mass of documentary and verbal See also:information, amassed with great care and arranged with admirable See also:art; the authors are historians rather than novelists. The disasters and humiliations of the See also:campaigns are faithfully described, but are traced to defects of organization and leadership; while the courage and patriotism of the army itself is made the 'basis of an assured confidence in the destinies of See also:France. La Commune is a bold See also:indictment of the methods adopted by the victorious party. The novelists also attacked the See also:laws governing See also:marriage and See also:divorce and the abuses entailed by the See also:dowry demanded from the See also:bride, in See also:pamphlets and in the novels, Femmes nouvelles (1899), Les Deux vies (1902), and Le Prisme (1905). Their See also:literary partner-See also:ship was dissolved in 1907. Paul Margueritte was one of the See also:original members of the See also:Academic de See also:Goncourt. See P. et V. Margueritte (1905) by E. Pilon, in the series of Celebrites d'aujourd'hui, and A. France, La See also:Vie litteraire (4th series, 1892).

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