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Théodore Georges Fath (Paris, 22 January 1818 – Maisons-Laffitte, 1900) was a 19th-century French playwright, illustrator and writer as well as Jacques Fath's great-grandfather.

Biography

He first studied sculpture and became known in 1840 with a drama, La Femme de l'émigré.

Apart from his own works, Fath illustrated the Contes d'une vieille fille à ses neveux by Delphine de Girardin, with Gustave Doré for Michel Lévy (1866), the Historiettes véritables pour les enfants de quatre à huit ans by Zulma Carraud (1879) and Jeux et exercices des jeunes filles by Madame de Chabreul for Hachette (1890), Jocrisse et sa sœur by Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1878) or else Un petit-fils de Robinson by Philibert Audebrand in collaboration with Aloys Fellmann for the éditions Lefèvre (1878).

He wrote feuilletons, novels and short stories. Je also translated the tales by Christoph von Schmid (1852) for the Magasin des enfants.

Works

Bibliography

• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, p. 654
• Pierre Larousse, Nouveau Larousse illustré, supplément, 1906, p. 225
• Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française, Poésie du XIXe siècle, 1977, p. 336
• Valérie Guillaume, Jacques Fath, 1993, p. 22
• Jean-Marie Embs, Philippe Mellot, 100 ans de livres d'enfant et de jeunesse: 1840-1940, 2006, p. 255
• Francis Marcoin, Librairie de jeunesse et littérature industrielle au XIXe siècle, 2006, p. 128

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