Alfred Vallette
Illustration — Alfred Vallette in 1909 Alfred Vallette (1858, Paris – 1935) was a French man of letters. In 1892, they expanded the review into a book publisher.
Alfred Vallette
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- Full name
- Edmond Alfred Louis Vallette.
- Born
- Alfred Vallette was born on 31 July 1858. · Paris.
- Died
- Alfred Vallette died on 28 September 1935. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- publisher, writer, journalist, editor and theatre critic.
- Fields
- literature, journalism, theatre criticism and editing.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Alfred Vallette appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer and publisher (28 July 1858 – 28 September 1935).
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Alfred Vallette was born on 28 July 1858 in Paris and died on 28 September 1935 in Paris.
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Publications
• À l'écart, avec Raoul Minhar, Paris, Perrin, 1891; réédition chez Honoré Champion, 2004. • La Vie grise. Le Vierge, Paris, Tresse et Stock, 1891 — Read online. • Le Roman d'un homme sérieux: Alfred Vallette à Rachilde, 1885-1889, Mercure de France, Paris, 1943. Réédition (preface Édith Silve), Mercure de France, 1994. • Lettres à A.-Ferdinand Herold, 1891-1935, et quelques-unes à son épouse, avant-propos et notes par Claire Lesage, Philippe Oriol, Christian Soulignac, Paris, Éditions du Fourneau, 1992. • In perpetuum, roman inédit, Paris, Éditions du Fourneau, 1992.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2835503: Alfred Vallette
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- 1.Rachilde. Wakefield Press.
- 2.Dierkes-Thrun, Petra. Wilde's Other Worlds. Routledge. 2018. 9780815363590.
- 3.Bertran, Aviva H. Schonthal. 'Mercure de France': The Birth of a Publishing House. The French Review. 33. 4. 351–58. 1960.
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