''The Safety Matches'' ( French title: ''Les Allumettes suédoises''), also translated under the title ''The Match Boy'', is a

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Robert Sabatier Robert Sabatier (17 August 1923 – 28 June 2012) was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He ...

, published in 1969 by Albin Michel and translated into English by Patsy Southgate in 1972.Catalogue entry of the British edition
National Library of Australia. Accessed 14 July 2013 It is the first volume of an autobiographical series whose main character is a boy named Olivier. An immediate best-seller, the book was adapted for French TV by

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in 1995.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Safety Matches 1969 French novels Novels set in Paris French autobiographical novels French novels adapted into television shows Éditions Albin Michel books