Henri de Montaut (1825 or 1830 – 1890 or 1900 ) was a French

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, engraver, and

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of the 19th century. He sometimes signed Henri de Hem, Monta or Hy.

Career

Henri de Montaut, with other artists such as

Édouard Riou Édouard Riou (; 2 December 1833 – 27 January 1900) was a French illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, as well as several other well-known works. Life Riou was born in 1833 in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, and studied u ...

George Roux George Roux (1853–1929) was a French artist and book illustrator. His best-known works today are a large number of illustrations he created for the science-fiction novels of Jules Verne, in the series '' Les voyages extraordinaires''. He was th ...

, is remembered for the illustrations they made for the novels of the series ''

Voyages extraordinaires The ''Voyages extraordinaires'' (; ) is a collection or sequence of novels and short stories by the French writer Jules Verne. Fifty-four of these novels were originally published between 1863 and 1905, during the author's lifetime, and eig ...

'' by

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

. He collaborated with '' Le Journal illustré'' for which he was chief editor for a time Jean-Pierre Bacot, ''La Presse illustrée au XIXe : une histoire oubliée'', Presses universitaires de Limoges (Pulim), coll. « Médiatextes », Limoges, 2005, 243 p. , (p. 113). as well as with '' La Vie Parisienne''. In 1883, he became chief editor of ''L'Art et la mode, journal de la vie mondaine''.

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