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Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier (13 January 1807 – 6 August 1898) was a 19th-century French playwright, lithographer and printer.
Victor Ratier | |
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| Born | Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier 13 January 1807 Paris |
| Died | 6 August 1898 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Lithographer Playwright Translator |
Biography
The son of a librarian in the Conseil d'État, a teacher of English in the high school of Bourges, he abandoned this business, became a journalist at the Journal du Cher, then a lithographer and printer, patented in Paris February 14, 1829 in succession to Pierre-François Ducarme. In 1829 he founded with the lithographer printer Sylvestre Nicolas Durier the illustrated periodical La Silhouette.
We owe him numerous lithographs and engravings for theatrical publications and magazines such as Album pour rire or Miroir des dames, and many poster prints. He was also the printer and translator of English language novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853) or Evangeline by Henry Longfellow (1864).
By his profession, letters were addressed to him by important personalities like Honoré de Balzac who was a friend.[1]
His plays, including some written under the pseudonym Victor Benoît[2] were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre du Panthéon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique etc.
Works
- 1832: Le Te-Deum et le De Profundis, one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Déaddé Saint-Yves and Michel Théodore Leclercq
- 1832: Odette, ou la Petite reine, chronique-vaudeville du temps de Charles VI, with Saint-Yves
- 1835: Arthur et Frédéric, ou Un duel d'écoliers
- 1838: Rose et Colas, with Saint-Yves and Léon de Villiers, one-act comédie en vaudeville
- 1840: Les Chiffonniers et les Balayeurs, tragedies in one act and in verse, with Edmé-Jacques-Benoît Rathery
- 1842: Mme Tastu
- 1863: Pauvre Père, vaudeville en un acte
- 1878: Le Dernier des Wiberg
Bibliography
- Encyclopédie des gens du monde: répertoire universel des sciences..., vol.4, 1834, p. 737
- Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique..., 1854, p. 670
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, vol.2, 1870, p. 1504 (read online)
References
- See René Bouvier, Edouard Maynial, Les comptes dramatiques de Balzac, 1938, (p. 114)
- Edmond Antoine Poinsot, Dictionnaire Des Pseudonymes, 1869, (p. 41)
External links
- Victor Ratier on Data.bnf.fr
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Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier (Paris, 13 janvier 1807 - Bourges, 9 août 1898[2]) est un auteur dramatique, lithographe et imprimeur français.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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