Autobiography (Autobiographie, 1867)

Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), translated by Kline, A. S. (contact-email)

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Gautier’s autobiographical note, translated here, was first published by Jean Auguste Marc in Sommités Contemporaines, 1867, alongside a portrait of Gautier, engraved by Jules Robert, from a drawing by Adolphe Mouilleron, after a photograph by ‘Bertall’ (Charles Albert d’Arnoux), and was later included by Victor Frond in his Panthéon des Illustrations Françaises au XIXe Siècle.

This enhanced translation has been designed to offer maximum compatibility with current search engines. Among other modifications, the proper names of people and places, etc. have been fully researched, modernised, and expanded; comments in parentheses have been added here and there to provide a reference, or clarify meaning; and minor typographic or factual errors, for example incorrect attributions and dates, in the original text, have been eliminated from this new translation.

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Kline, A. S.

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