Albert-Antoine Cimochowski, called Albert Cim, (22 October 1845 – 8 May 1924) was a French novelist, literary critic and bibliographer.
Biography
Born to a French mother and a Polish officer who fled to France after the 1830
November Uprising, Albert Cimochowski entered in Paris a public service career for the
Postes et télégraphes in 1861 and, under the name Albert Cim, began in journalism by writing articles on philology, criticism and bibliography, pieces that were quickly noticed. He collaborated with many newspapers including "lights" ones (''La Gaudriole'') and held the ''Revue littéraire'' column of ''
Le Radical'' from 1881 to 1894, then of the ''National'' from 1895 to 1897. He also participated in writing the ''
Dictionnaire de la langue française'' by
Littré. Meanwhile, he published books for children and novels, which earned him to be five-time winner of the
Académie française, and documentary, literary and bibliographic studies. In 1896, he was appointed a librarian by the Under Secretary for Postes and telegraphs. He was also a member of the
Société des gens de lettres
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Works
*1880: ''Jeunesse, mœurs de province''
*1885: ''Service de nuit''
*1887: ''Amis d'enfance''
*1887: ''Institution de demoiselles, mœurs parisiennes''
*1888: ''Deux malheureuses'
Text online*1888: ''La Rue des Trois Belles''
*1889: ''Un Coin de province''
*1890: ''Les Prouesses d'une fille''
*1891: ''Bas-Bleus''
*1892: ''Bonne Amie''
*1893: ''En pleine gloire, histoire d'une mystification''
*1893: ''Spectacles enfantins''
*1894: ''Demoiselles à marier''
*1894: ''Joyeuse Ville''
*1894: ''Histoire d'un baiser'
Text online*1895: ''Fils unique. Le neveu de Mlle Papillon'
Text online*1896: ''Le Célèbre Barastol, vie et aventures d'un commis voyageur''
*1896: ''Grand'-Mère et petit-fils''
*1896: ''Fils unique. Le Neveu de Mlle Papillon''
*1897: ''Césarin, histoire d'un vagabond'
*1898: ''La Petite Fée''
*1898: ''Jeunes Amours''
*1899: ''Émancipées''
*1900: ''Farceurs''
*1900: ''Mademoiselle Cœur d'Ange, histoire d'une tante, de ses neveux, de ses nièces et de ses bêtes''
*1902: ''Une bibliothèque : l'art d'acheter les livres, de les classer, de les conserver et de s'en servir'
Text online*1903: ''Le Dîner des gens de lettres : souvenirs littéraires'
Text online*1903: ''Amateurs et voleurs de livres : emprunteurs indélicats, voleurs par amour des livres, voleurs par amour de l'argent ; vols dans les bibliothèques publiques, chez les éditeurs, libraires, bouquinistes, etc.'' (Reprint: Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 1998).
*1903: ''Le Petit Léveillé'
Text online*1904: ''Le Roman d'un bon garçon''
*1904: ''Contes et souvenirs de mon pays'
Text online*1905: ''Mes amis et moi''
*1905–1908: ''Le Livre : historique, fabrication, achat, classement, usage et entretien'' (5 volumes)
*1906: ''Les Quatre fils Hémon''
*1910: ''Le Chansonnier
Émile Debraux, roi de la
goguette
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, 1796-1831''
*1910: ''Bureaux et bureaucrates, mémoires d'un employé des PTT''
*1911: ''La Revanche d'Absalon''
*1912: ''Disparu ! Histoire d'un enfant perdu''
*1912: ''Mes vacances : chasse à l'ours ; deux amis, le père Laverdure et son chien Finaud ; la brouette de mon grand-père ; pensionnaires !… etc., etc.''
*1913: ''Le Gros Lot''
*1913: ''Mystificateurs et mystifiés célèbres''
*1914: ''Entre camarades''
*1919: ''Les Coulisses du monde littéraire :
Nina de Villard
Anne-Marie Gaillard (12 July 1843 – 22 July 1884, in a clinic at Vanves), known as Nina de Villard de Callias, Nina de Callias or Nina de Villard, was a French composer, pianist, writer, and salon hostess.
The daughter of a rich Lyon lawyer, af ...
et son salon''
*1919: ''Les Femmes et les livres''
*1920: ''. Curiosités et singularités, bévues et lapsus, etc.'
Text online*1921: ''Nouvelles Récréations littéraires et historiques. Curiosités et Singularités. Bévues et Lapsus, etc. Historiens. Philosophes. Orateurs. Médecins. Politiciens. Journalistes. Ecclésiastiques. Femmes écrivains. Appendice. Coquilles typographiques''
*1921: ''Deux cousins''
*1923: ''Petit Manuel de l'amateur de livres'
(multiples formats
*1924: ''Amis d'enfance''
*1924: ''Le Travail intellectuel. L'ordre, la clarté, l'écriture, manies des écrivains'
Text online
Sources
* Biographical elements after C.-E. Curinier
''Dictionnaire national des contemporains'', vol. II
1899-1919, (p. 329–330)
External links
Albert Cim
on data.bnf.fr
Albert Cim
on Wikisource
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19th-century French writers
20th-century French non-fiction writers
French literary critics
French bibliographers
1845 births
People from Bar-le-Duc
1924 deaths