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Albert Savine
1859–1927
A restless figure in French literary life, this writer, translator, and publisher helped bring foreign authors to French readers while building a lively career of his own. His story also reflects the sharper, more troubled sides of the publishing world in late 19th-century France.
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L'Assassinat de la Duchesse de Praslin
by Albert Savine
About the author
Born in Aigues-Mortes on April 20, 1859, Albert Savine was a French editor, translator, and author who worked across many corners of literary life. French library and reference sources describe him as a man of letters as well as a publisher, and he became known for introducing and translating works from other languages, especially Spanish and Catalan writers.
Savine was active not only as a translator but also as a publisher with his own imprint, and records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France show a long list of works connected to his name. That mix of writing, editing, and publishing made him a busy cultural middleman: someone who helped books travel between languages and audiences.
He died on June 6, 1927, in Boulogne-Billancourt. Today he is remembered less as a single celebrated author than as an energetic literary go-between whose career touched journalism, criticism, translation, and publishing.