Paul de Kock

Paul de Kock , born with Passy the May 21st 1793 and died in Romainville the August 29th 1871, is a French novelist and dramatic author.

He is the son of a Dutch banker, Jean Conrad de Kock, which was guillotine under the Révolution. Popular, fertile and truculent novelist, it painted the people of modest means of Paris. Its vogue, in France and abroad, was very large. He is also the author of almost two hundred dramas and light comedy S and of many songs, whose most famous, Mrs Arthur , written about 1850 and sung by Yvette Guilbert, was a great success in the Années 1920. Its novels were published in the editions Rouff.

Chateaubriand would have said of him at Mrs Récamier: “Paul de Kock is comforting, never it does not present humanity under the point of view which saddens - with him one laughs and one hopes. ”

Works

  • the Child of my wife (1812)

  • Gustave the bad subject (1821)
  • the Dairy one of Montfermeil (1827)
  • the Woman, the husband and the lover (1829)
  • the Cuckold (1832)
  • the Virgin of Belleville (1834)
  • Bouquetière of the water tower (1855)

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