FRENCH PICTURES IN ENGLISH CHALK SECOND SERIES .

by the Author of The Member for Paris, &c by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray

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First edition

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. Octavo, original decorated brown cloth, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Nine short stories and novelettes set in France. The author, an illegitimate son of a Duke, was a diplomat and journalist whose savage satires on the aristocracy sometimes landed him in trouble. He was publicly horsewhipped once by an irate Lord Carrington. See Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 452.

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