Career
His most famous work was L"Ami des Enfans (1782-1783) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-1784 by Mary"s father John Stockdale. The work remained popular until the middle of the nineteenth century. Berquin"s stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives—they did not contain fairy tales or other imaginative literature.
