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ANDEÉ THEURIET

André Theuriet, the author of our story, was born

near Paris, in 1833. But his boyhood was spent at

Bar-le-Duc, a considérable town of eastern France,

where he received his- éducation.^ . He studied law,

and for man^.-yiBa'pgi'rhe was connected with tbe

Government civil; •Qôryi'cô; frt>îa which he retired in

1880. His présent/ hçn^ -ip^ Bourg-la-Reine, a

résidence suburB of Paris. 'Sîe was elected to the

French Academy in 1896.

Theuriet is one of the most notable of contem-

porary French writers, among whom he occupies an

honorable position. Literature early claimed our

author's attention as the chief calling of his life, and

his collected works are quite bulky, comprising up-

ward of forty volumes, represented by poetry and

fiction. His first appearance before the public was

in verse, which was received with marked favor.

But it is as a novelist that he is best known, and his

production in this line has been unbroken for the

past thirty years.

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