Sketches of conspicuous living characters of France.
By: Translated by R. M. Walsh.
Contributors: Walsh, Robert M., tr.
Publisher: Lea & Blanchard
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: France -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: The biographies appeared separately in Paris in weekly numbers under the pseudonym, "Un homme de rien".  Afterwards published under title: Galerie des contemporains illustres. cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: Thiers.; title: Chateaubriand.; title: Laffitte.; title: Guizot.; title: Lamartine.; title: Soult.; title: Berryer.; title: De la Mennais.; title: Victor Hugo.; title: Dupin.; title: Béranger.; title: Odilon Barrot.; title: Arago.; title: George Sand (Madame Dudevant).; title: The Duke de Broglie.