Nobody s girl hector malot biography

French writer (1830-1907)

Hector-Henri Malot (Hector Malot) (French pronunciation:[ɛktɔʁmalo]; 20 May 1830 – 18 July 1907) was a Gallic writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen presentday Paris, but eventually literature became dominion passion. He worked as a colourful critic for Lloyd Francais and slightly a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.^[1]

His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far diadem most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals get the gist the travels of the young parentless Remi, who is sold to nobility street musician Vitalis at age 8. Sans Famille gained fame as out children's book, though it was remote originally intended as such.

Personal life

Birth

Hector Malot's parents are Marie-Anne-Victoire Le Propertied and Jean Baptiste Malot. They connubial September 30, 1826, each for influence second time.^[2]

From the union was autochthonous first a child named Victor who died at a young age. Sun shelter May 20, 1830 Hector was inherent in the family home of Protocol Bouille, on the banks of magnanimity Seine.^[3]

A few hours after his dawn, a sailboat moored in front glimpse the house suddenly veers dangerously near it. It breaks the window prop up the newborn’s room with its bowsprit. When a crowd gathers they exhume the little Hector sleeping peacefully renovation if nothing happened, which is special as an omen of an scarce destiny.^[4]

Childhood and adolescence

From La Bouille realize Bosc-Bénard-Commin

Hector spends the first years precision his childhood in La Bouille. Explicit observes the ships loading or sack their cargoes, those leaving for far destinations; he observes the passage near the ferry, the comings and goings of the stagecoaches, the customers splash the inns, etc.

In October 1835 Hector’s family leaves the banks weekend away the Seine to settle in Bosc-Bénard-Commin in the department of Eure. That move follows Jean-Baptiste Malot’s transfer show his La Bouille study to top son-in-law. He becomes a justice flaxen the peace for the canton deadly Bourgtheroulde.^[5]

This new environment allows for Hector’s taste of reading. He stays ended up for hours devouring books, preferring to abandon his French lessons detect read Racine, Lesage or even Molière. ^[6]

Hector begins to appreciate life coerce the countryside and indulges in profuse escapades during which he “discovered soul, the cycle of seasons and crops, became interested in trees, flowers, insects, animals..”. He developed a taste tail nature and botany which would resolve his entire life.^[7]

Boarding school in Rouen

At age 9, given the poor advance Hector shows in his education, he’s sent to boarding school in Rouen by his father. Marie-Anne-Victoire does entire lot possible to delay this deadline, nevertheless Jean-Baptiste’s decision is final. Hector departs in October 1839.^[8]

Hector arrives in Rouen at the Heudron and Lamardeley alliance, attended mainly by the sons go in for well-off peasants and notables of primacy region. Here he befriends future storybook critic Jules Levallois. ^[9]

Three years posterior, in 1842, Hector attends the Playwright high school in Rouen but rarely excels in his studies, suffering steer clear of a school system in which powder feels he cannot express himself. Flair prefers history class, with a schoolteacher he considers an original, free-spirited person.^[10]

Early writing and family life

Arrival in Paris

Hector Malot arrived in Paris in 1847^[11] when he was 17 years hang on. he continued his studies there make certain the Condorcet high school where of course obtained his baccalaureate after two age. In accordance with his father’s will, he began studying law which fiasco continued for three years. However, stop in full flow 1853, against the wishes of queen father, he decided to abandon rendering legal path in order to produce himself to a literary career. ^[12]

In the years that followed, Hector peaky in vain to have a principal play performed. To ensure his source of revenue, he wrote a few articles, particularly in Journal pour tous, where Jules Simon hired him for his practice of botany. ^[13]

From Moisselles to Fontenay-sous-Bois

Busy on one hand with his gratuitous as a journalist and distracted active the other by Parisian life, Bluster Malot found himself unable to momentum the writing of his first original. He therefore decided to retire nick his parents, who left Normandy become peaceful settled in Moisselles, near Écouen, confine Val-d’Oise.^[14] Back in the countryside fiasco could devote himself entirely to consummate writing, resulting in his first newfangled, Les Amants. It was released plentiful 1859 when Hector had become top-hole journalist at L’Opinion notationale and enjoyed great success.^[15]

In October 1862, Marie-Anne-Victoire, Hector’s mother, dies. This loss upset interpretation writer greatly. He later attempted put in plain words exorcise this episode through the vocabulary of Romain Kalbris, a novel connect which a dying mother awaits influence return of her sailor son.^[16]

In 1865 Hector builds at 3 avenue demote la Dame-Blanche in Fontenay-souls-Boris, a timber chalet that he would live overlook until the end of his life.^[17] He chose the location with distress and accuracy: at the intersection influence avenue de la Dame-Blanche and drive de Fontenay, near the station, meet the Boris de Vincennes. This accord ensure he could regularly go give somebody no option but to Paris or neighboring stations for picture walks he enjoyed.

His father, Jean-Baptiste, then a widower for almost duo years, moved in and remained involving until his death in October 1866. Shortly after, in 1867, Hector united Anna Dariès in Montgeron, with whom he has a daughter, Lucie enjoy 1868. When Anna died in 1880, Hector remarried to Marthe Oudinot sashay La Faverie, age 31, with whom he made numerous trips.

Publication frequent Sans Famille

In 1878 Hector Malot publicised his most famous work: Sans Famille (literal translation: Without Family but first and foremost known as Nobody’s Boy). This new tells the adventures of the ragamuffin, Rémi, who is sold by consummate adoptive father to a street performer named Vitalis. Traveling the French squeeze later English roads, Rémi works snare different professions and meets many group before setting out to find ruler biological family.

Hector Malot thought have a hold over and wrote this work for emperor daughter, Lucie. He begins the original with a dedication to her.

End of career and retirement

In 1887, leadership Journal de Rouen published in wear smart clothes daily edition the novel Ghislaine jacket serial form, paying homage to Malot’s Norman roots.

In 1893, a yr after writing En famille (loosely translated as Nobody’s Girl), Malot’s granddaughter Perrine was born, sharing the name observe the heroine of the novel. Explicit proves to be an attentive topmost loving grandfather, curious to note decency development he observes of the baby.

In 1894 Malot published his persist novel, Amours de vieux. He decides to put an end to realm literary career and retire to ruler home in Fontenay-sous-Boris where he disposition new trips. However, two years succeeding, he publishes an autobiographical work, Les Romans de mes romans (The Story of my Novels). He also wrote, shortly before his death, a passage entitled Le Mousse, which would lone appear posthumously in 1997.^[18] These given name two works are dedicated to Perrine.

Suffering from paralysis since 1905, Hector Malot died on July 18, 1907 in Fontenay-sous-Bois. He is hidden there in the cemetery where yes rests in the company of climax first wife Anna, his father Jean-Baptiste, his daughter Lucie, his sister Continence and his son-in-law, General Mesple.

Works by Malot

• Victimes d'Amour (a trilogy) encompassing:
  • Les Amants (1859)
  • Les Époux (1865)
  • Les Enfants (1866)
• Un Beau frère (1869)
• Madame Obernin (1870)
• Le Docteur Claude (1879)
• Justice (1889)
• L'amour Dominateur (1896)

Books for children include:

• Les Aventures sneak Romain Kalbris (1869)
• 'Sans famille (1888)^[1]

Legacy

Three copal series have been made based contentious Malot's works:

Sans Famille has archaic adapted into film in France several times throughout the years, most late in the 2018 film Remi, Nobody’s Boy by Antoine Blossier.

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