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It would seem we have changed too wa once taught the French to be comfortable it appears, by De Kock's frequent use of the word, that we have now taught them to be fashionable.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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, Charles Paul de Kock began life as a bankers 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, LEnfant de
ma femme, was published at his own expense, Inhe 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, Major Pendennis remark in the novel Pendennis by the English aut Charles 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, was published at his own expense, Inhe 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, Major Pendennis' remark in the novel "Pendennis" by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray that he had read nothing of the novel kind for thirty years except Paul de Kock, who certainly made him laugh, is likely to remain one of the most durable of his testimonials, and may be classed with the legendary question of a foreign sovereign to a Frenchman who was paying his respects, Vous venez de Paris et vous devez savoir des nouvelles.
Comment se porte Paul de Kock TheEncyclopedia Americana attributes his greater popularity abroad to his style, which it describes as his worst feature, barely presentable, a fault evidently due to deficiency of education the defects of style disappear in translation, 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 theth century at Paris still has its value, sitelink.