Anatole Cerfberr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French journalist and author
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Anatole Cerfberr
- Anatole Cerfberr (1835, Paris—1896, Neuilly) was a French journalist and author.
- Under various pseudonyms, among which were "Arthur Clary," "Antoine Cerlier," and "Fulgence Ridal," he contributed to numerous papers.
- He was an admirer of Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo, an ardent socialist, and well versed in matters concerning the stage.
- Cerfberr published many poems, biographies, studies, etc.
- Together with Jules François Christophe, he also published a work entitled Répertoire de la Comédie Humaine de H.
- de Balzac, which was crowned by the Académie française (Paris, 1887).
- The purpose of the Répertoire is to give in alphabetical sequence the names of all the characters of Balzac's Comédie Humaine, together with the salient points in their lives.
- Balzac made his characters appear again and again, thus creating out of his distinct novels a miniature world.
- The work of Cerfberr and Christophe is a guide to that world.
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