Robert Baldick, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British scholar of French literature, writer, translator, editor
Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1927
Date of Death: 24-Apr-1972
Profession: translator
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Robert Baldick
- Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 – April 1972), was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well-known translator.
- He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He wrote eight books including biographies of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Frédérick Lemaître and Henry Murger and a history of the Siege of Paris.
- In addition he edited and translated The Goncourt Journals and a number of the classics of French literature including works by Gustave Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne, and Henri Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Georges Simenon. His son is English academic Chris Baldick.
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