About

Overview

Edmond About (born Dieuze, 14 February 1828; died Paris, 16 January 1885), French novelist, journalist and polemicist, an anticlerical supporter of the Second Empire, elected to the Académie française on 24 January 1884. (Source: French Wikipedia, «Edmond About»; Mon Journal t.7 index: «About (Edmond), écrivain».)

Relevance to Marie

• 3 May 1876. She reads «tout d'un trait» a volume of two hundred pages, his story «Le nez d'un notaire» (Le Nez d'un notaire, 1862), and finds it «très amusant» (059.0722).
• 1 October 1883. About is one of the speakers at the farewell ceremony at the station for Turgenev's body, sent to Russia: «Discours de M. Renan, de M. About et de Virouboff» (101.0470). She hears him badly («About a parlé assez bas et j'ai peu entendu», 101.0471). The t.16 index lists «About (M.) : 43» for this page.

References in Diary

• First mentioned (tagged): 1876-05-03 (059.0722). Also 1883-10-01 (101.0470, 101.0471).