, 1873-11-30
FRENCH AUTHORS.
I1ow They Arc PRtds

There Is no country OH Tho continent, ii In tho
world, in which literary labor Is moro remuiera-
said, has boon Obliged to establlnh aort OF Hotel
des tnvaltdeH (the Bohillor sHftung ut Wotn,nr),
which keepa hor euainont rotited authors from
starving, while in Spain, Italy. and tho Scan
liant pom worry rarely leals to poouniary
succcss, Franco can boaBt of. hundreds Of
authors, who, by tloir literary labors have aceu-
mulated handsome and, In many iustanccs, very
largo fortunes. Tho parisian sociesc don aens
ono.third aro in very comfortable circumstances.
OF, tho !" Forty 1nnortals" Of tho. .Frenoh
Academy, nino-tentha have risen, through their
tSrny o9r from P;9veftg to IT'D
but = historian, he would NOW probably bo the
richost literary 1nan Garth. but his public lifo
has swept. away a largo portion Of hia literary
oaru}ngs; but even now.ho Is small millions
Umpire alone yields him: IN annual copyright
Of 6,000 francs. Victor Hugo, during Ills long
md eyontful lifo, has mado with his pon. several
fortunes, and lost thcm. Ho is, porhaps, not aB
property in Germany, nyo OF si1 la,rge houses
Ia Paris, md is the principal stochholdor in
tho very lucrative Rappel newspaper, besides
tho hoaVy copyrights which he still rcceiycs on
several Of his oldor works. George Sand is the
ago,' almost on tho brink Of starvation, she
has now an annual income, Of over
100000 francs from her copyrights and
life contracts with French publishing houses,
and her magnificent county oas ssat at Nalant
bottor off is Alexander Dumas, whoso every
work has bcen q pocunfary su Geese, aud who,
bosideH being brilliant author, ts ono Of tho
boldcst aud most jMdiciouB ck-spoculatora IN
Paris. Emile do Girardiu has hkowiBe welded
plume dor, and being, besides, an oxco]lont
f}nancior and shrewd real estate operator, ho has
now fortune Of several million francs. Ed
mond About, too, is rich. It wns only tho othor
day that ho refused tot, 900 francs for hiH jour-
nal, Lo soir, Of which he Is solo proprietor.
Yictoron Sardou, twenty-five years ago, had
ofton not money enough TO buy . warm meal,
and now his chateau at Marty o1cites the envy
md admiration Of tho magnatos Of tho oarth.
scribo'a widow lives in princely style at Paaey,
on the procecds Of bor late husbands genius.
Alphonse Karr Loaf ono fortune by bad land
Hpoculatlons near Nice, but has almost accumu-
lated another since his return to Paris. Jules
Janin pnyB ns heavy taxes aa many rich bank
CT. Thaophilo Gautior loft also large fortune.
Guborian, tho novelist, although not yet 80 yeara
Of ago, receives from Michael Levy, tho great
Partisan publisher, 15,000 francs year on
author Of "aocambole," left to lis widow
1,DD0, 900 frnncs, all earned with bis pen In less
than ton yoars. Henry do Villemcssant tho
clever skotch-writer and great journalists apec.
france for tic Paris Figaro, vhoao sole pro-
prietor ho is. The unfortunate noohefort, too,
is said to have good deal Of money left Littre
would be wealthy but for tho heavy su,na
which he spent in his researcher and propa-
rations for Lis great dictionary. Octave Feuil-
let's Romance ct Poor Young h1an " proved
30 profitable that It,. enabled its author to
build himself one Of tho 1nost charming villas
in Fontainebloau, whore he, who started in life
without q penny, now lives in elegant retro
mont. EreAmann- Chatrian hive lost heavily by
the bombnrdmont Of their Alsacfan homo during
the war. but it is we'll known that they arc still
worth several hundred Thousand francs between
them, joan Lesnoino, who started tvonty- five
yoara ago as reporter on tho journal des Debafs
largest Stockholders in that wealthy newspaper
establishment. Maxine Ducamp, ono Of the
most brilliant French magazine writer's, receives
10000 francs n year for Ito from N. Dnloz, tho
publisher Of tho Reuue des Dean .dfondes. What
country can show q similar record 2,