Hector Nicolas Alphonse Marie France (1837–1908) was a French writer and soldier, the author of numerous stories of an erotic nature. Has also translated from English into French and from French into English. He sometimes collaborated with

Hugues Rebell Georges Grassal de Choffat or Hugues Rebell (27 October 1867 in Nantes – 6 March 1905 in Paris) was a French people, French author. He wrote against Christianity and professed paganism while remaining a Catholic. An exponent of Friedrich Nietzsc ...

(alias Georges Grassal) and Charles Carrington under the collective pseudonym Jean de Villiot.

Life

Hector France was born on 5 July 1837 at Mirecourt. He was present at the rout in Algeria in 1870. He returned to France and became a member and an officer of the Paris Commune but was deported in 1872, taking up a secondary career as a writer. He died on 19 August 1908 in Rueil-Malmaison, aged seventy-one.

Appraisal

France was by profession a soldier, and wrote ably on military and economic subjects, as ''John Bull's Army'' (1887) and several pamphlets evince. His fictions show a loving care of form and effect, also a delight in dwelling on painful and revolting aspects of passion. ''The Pastor's Romance'' (1879); ''Love in the Blue Country'' (1880); and ''Sister Kuhnegunde's Sins'' (1880), exemplify both.Ayres 1917. Retrieved 2 April 2022. In 1881 he published his most famous work, ''Sous le Burnous'', which included some illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril. The play was translated into English by

Alfred Allinson Alfred Richard Allinson (1852–1929) was a British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature (mostly French, but occasionally Latin, German and Russian) into English. His translations were often published a ...

as ''Musk, Hashish and Blood'' (1900).

Works

* ''L'Amour au pays bleu'' (Paris:

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, 1880; 291 pages) () * ''Le Péché de sœur Cunégonde'' (Paris: Chauvin, 1880; 483 pages) () * ''Les Cent Curés paillards'' (Paris: Librairie du progrès, 1883) () * ''Marie Queue-de-Vache'' (Paris: Librairie du progrès, 1883; 481 pages) () * ''Les Va-nu-pieds de Londres'' (Paris: G. Charpentier & Co., 1883; 332 pages) () * ''Le Roman du curé'' (Paris: Henri Oriol, 1884; 452 pages) () * ''La Pudique Albion. Les Nuits de Londres'' (Paris: G. Charpentier & Co., 1885) () * ''Sous le burnous'' (Paris: G. Charpentier & Co., 1886; 333 pages) (); reissue (Toulouse: Anacharsis, 2011) () * ''L'Armée de John Bull'' (Paris: G. Charpentier & Co., 1887; 344 pages) () * ''Ketty Culbute'' ollowed by''La Révolte des Tramps'' nd''La Gigue d'Ève'' (Brussels: Messageries de le Presse, 1887; 12 pages) () * ''Sac au dos à travers l'Espagne'' (Paris: G. Charpentier & Co., 1888, 320 pages) () * ''La Vierge russe'' (Paris: H. Geffroy, 1893, 800 pages) () * ''Dictionnaire de la langue verte. Archaïsmes, néologismes, locutions étrangères, patois'' (Paris: Librairie du progrès, 1890; 495 pages () * ''Roman d'une jeune fille pauvre'' (Paris: H. Geffroy, 1896; 1763 pages) () * ''Les Mystères du monde…'' ontinuation and end of ''Mystères du peuple'' by Eugène Sue">Eugène_Sue.html" ;"title="ontinuation and end of ''Mystères du peuple'' by Eugène Sue">ontinuation and end of ''Mystères du peuple'' by Eugène Sue(Paris: Maurice Lachâtre, 1898; 800 pages) () * ''L'Outrage'' (Paris: H. Geffroy, 1900; 968 pages) () * ''Croquis d'outre-Manche'' (Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1900; 293 pages) () * ''Au pays de Cocagne, principauté de Monaco'' (Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1902; 297 pages) () * ''Musk, Hashish and Blood'' (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902; 447 pages) () * ''Le Beau Nègre: roman de mœurs sud-américaines'' (Paris: C. Carrington, 1902; 414 pages) () * ''La Fille du garde-chasse'' (Paris: H. Geffroy, 1903; 1544 pages) () * ''Un Parisien en Sibérie.'' Part One, ''Le Tueur de Cosaques'' (Paris: A.-L. Guyot, 1906; 187 pages) ()

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