Edmond About

14 February 1828 – 16 January 1885

Edmond François Valentin About, who was born in 1828 in Dieuze (Moselle) and died on 16 January 1885 in Paris, was a French writer, journalist and art critic, and a member of the Académie française. He strongly opposed the realism of Gustave Courbet.

• A new lease of life [tr. from L'homme à l'oreille cassée] and Saving a daughter's dowry [tr ...
• Greece and the Greeks of the present day
• L'homme à l'oreille cassée
• Le roi des montagnes
• Alsace, 1871-1872
• Causeries
• Causeries
• Colonel Fougas' mistake
• De Pontoise à Stamboul.- Le grain de plomb.- Dans les ruines.- Les oeufs de ..
• Dernieres lettres d'un bon jeune homme a sa cousine Madeleine
• Edmond About
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