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Albert Savine
1859–1927
A lively figure in French literary life, he worked as an editor, translator, journalist, and author, helping bring foreign writers to French readers. His career mixed literary ambition with controversy, making him a memorable if complicated presence in the publishing world.
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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, journalist, and writer. He is remembered as one of those energetic literary go-betweens who did many jobs at once: publishing books, writing his own, and translating works from other languages for a French audience.
Savine had a wide range of interests and worked with material from English, Spanish, and Catalan. Library and reference records also show the breadth of his output, including original works and translations, and his name is especially associated with late 19th- and early 20th-century French publishing.
He died in Boulogne-Billancourt on June 6, 1927. Although he is less widely known today than some of the writers he published or translated, his career offers a revealing glimpse of the busy, sometimes turbulent world of French literary culture in his time.