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He was born at Passy, France on the 21th of May 1793. He was a posthumous child, his father, a banker of Dutch extraction, having been a victim of the Terror.
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Excerpt from Monsieur Dupont, Vol. 2 Adolphe was careful that his father should not see his alarm. You are ill, he said, and I have hastened to come and nurse you. It is nothing; it is nothing, replied M. Dal mont; an obstinate cold has' annoyed me, but it will be better now that you are here. Adolphe appointed himself his father's nurse, for in his poverty he had no one to care for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born at Passy, France on the 21th of May 1793. He was a posthumous child, his father, a banker of Dutch extraction, having been a victim of the Terror.
Paul de Kock began life as a banker's clerk. For the most part he resided on the Boulevard St Martin, and was one of the most inveterate of Parisians. He began to write for the stage very early, and composed many operatic libretti.
His first novel, L'Enfant de ma femme (1811), was published at his own expense. In 1820 he began his long and successful series of novels dealing with Parisian life with Georgette, ou la Nièce du tabellion. His period of greatest and most successful activity was the Restoration and the early days of Louis Philippe. He was relatively less popular in France itself than abroad, where he was considered as the special painter of life in Paris.
The disappearance of the grisette and of the cheap dissipation described by Henri Murger practically made Paul de Kock obsolete. But to the student of manners his portraiture of low and middle class life in the first half of the 19th century at Paris still has its value.
The works of Paul de Kock are very numerous. With the exception of a few not very felicitous excursions into historical romance and some miscellaneous works of which his share in La Grande ville, Paris (1842), is the chief, they are all stories of middle-class Parisian life, of guinguettes and cabarets and equivocal adventures of one sort or another. The most famous are Andri le Savoyard (1825) and Le Barbier de Paris (1826). His Memoires were published in 1873.
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