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Alphonse Viollet
b. 1798
A 19th-century French man of letters, he moved between translation, biography, and social commentary. His surviving works suggest a writer drawn to real lives, public events, and the literary world around him.
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Les poètes du peuple au XIXe siècle
by Alphonse Viollet
About the author
Born in 1798, Alphonse Viollet was a French writer, translator, and biographer active in the first half of the 19th century. Library and reference records connect him with both original works and French translations, especially from English.
His bibliography shows a wide range of interests. He translated works by Theodore Edward Hook, and he also wrote books of biography and commentary, including Les poètes du peuple au XIXe siècle, which reflects an interest in overlooked writers and everyday lives. Other listed works link him to political and historical subjects as well.
Although not widely known today, Viollet appears to have been one of those busy literary figures who helped shape reading culture through many kinds of writing rather than a single famous title. Reference sources also place his death in 1860.