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Scott and the French Romantics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

E. Preston Dargan
E. Preston Dargan*
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University of Chicago
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On a chilly September morning in 1827 a young man bearing the humble name of Chardon entered a bookshop on the Quai des Augustins. Plucking up his courage, he announced to two busy partners: “I am the author of a French historical novel, in the manner of Walter Scott. Its title is The Archer of Charles the Ninth. I propose that you should handle the work.” But the busy partners were just lamenting that the great popularity of Scott's novels was prejudicial to their own trade. They rejected the proposal of Chardon, who took his wares to a sly full-bodied publisher called Doguereau. To him the budding author described his novel as “dans le genre de Walter Scott” and developed its theme as concerned with the civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. Doguereau made a paltry offer which was declined. L'Archer de Charles IX, after many vicissitudes, after being revised or puffed by various friends of Chardon, was published by a third firm—at a dead loss.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , June 1934 , pp. 599 - 629
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1934

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