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Re: le Figaro, 1884, French AND English?

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:41:30 -0500 (EST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Certainly the issue of Le Figaro illustree with Famille Raton was only in
French, from which I drew the text for translation and the color
illustrations for the Oxford edition.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Art Evans wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> Great find! And very odd indeed.... I'm afraid that I have no possible
> answers to offer you--I've never seen a copy of LE FIGARO with stories in
> English like that. Please let us know if you discover anything more about
> this mystery!
> Best,
> Art
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Nash" <anash~at~julesverne.ca>
> To: "jvforum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:49 PM
> Subject: le Figaro, 1884, French AND English?
>
>
> >I have recently added a copy of the 1884 le Figaro Illustre Supplement to
> >my collection.
> > It contains the short story "Frritt-Flacc".
> >
> > But what seems to be undocumented, is that my copy contains 9 pages of
> > ads, ALL in French while the text of ALL the stories are in English.
> >
> > All the English bibliographies I have consulted, mention the 1892 (July)
> > Strand publication of Dr Trifulgas as the first English translation of
> > Frritt-Flacc. Well..le Figaro of 1884 (Dec) seems to have that beat by 8
> > years!
> >
> > French bibliographies I have consulted mention the publication of
> > Frritt-Flacc in le Figaro, but fail to mention that it is in English....
> > SO, Can someone confirm that le Figaro was published in French AND
> > English!
> > Merci,
> > Andrew Nash
> > www.julesverne.ca
> >
Received on Tue 25 Jan 2005 - 02:41:40 IST

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