Antoine Gustave Droz
Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832October 22, 1895), author, French man of letters and son of the sculptor Jules-Antoine Droz (1807–1872), was born in Paris. • Illustration — Antoine Gustave Droz He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit his work in Paris at the Salon of 1857. A series of sketch stories dealing gaily with the intimacies of family life, published in the magazine La Vie Parisienne and issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bébé (1866), won for the author an immediate and great success. The publication Entre Nous (1867) was similar, and was followed by some psychological novels: Le Cahier Bleu de Mlle Cibot (1868); Autour d'une Source (1869); Un Paquet de Lettres (1870); Babolain (1872); Les Étangs (1875); Une Femme Gênante (1875); and L'Enfant (1885).
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- France.
- Occupation
- painter and writer.
- Education
- Collège Stanislas de Paris.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour and Vitet Prize.
- Languages
- French.
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Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832October 22, 1895), author, French man of letters and son of the sculptor Jules-Antoine Droz (1807–1872), was born in Paris. • Illustration — Antoine Gustave Droz He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit his work in Paris at the Salon of 1857. A series of sketch stories dealing gaily with the intimacies of family life, published in the magazine La Vie Parisienne and issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bébé (1866), won for the author an immediate and great success. The publication Entre Nous (1867) was similar, and was followed by some psychological novels: Le Cahier Bleu de Mlle Cibot (1868); Autour d'une Source (1869); Un Paquet de Lettres (1870); Babolain (1872); Les Étangs (1875); Une Femme Gênante (1875); and L'Enfant (1885).
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His Tristesses et Sourires (1884) is a delicate analysis of the niceties of family intercourse and its difficulties. Droz's first book was translated into English with the title Papa, Mamma and Baby (1887). "Gustave Droz saw love within marriage as the key to human happiness.." "He urged women to follow their hearts and marry a man nearly their own age." Droz Quoted in T. Zeldin, France 1848–1945, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973), p.
Antoine Gustave Droz studied at Collège Stanislas de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Work by Antoine Gustave Droz is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Vitet Prize.
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1832
Antoine Gustave Droz born at Paris.
1895
Antoine Gustave Droz died at Paris.
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He also worked under the name Gustave Z. The authorities additionally record the headings Gustave Droz and Gustav Droz. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jules-Antoine Droz. Droz received Knight of the Legion of Honour and Vitet Prize. Recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour and Vitet Prize. Connected to 2 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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