author
Ange Galdemar
1857–1939
A French writer remembered today mainly for a dramatic retelling of Robespierre’s life, adapted from Victorien Sardou’s play. The surviving record is quite sparse, which gives his work an extra air of literary curiosity.
1 Audiobook
Robespierre : the story of Victorien Sardou's play adapted and novelized under his authority
by Ange Galdemar, Victorien Sardou
About the author
Ange Galdemar was a French author who lived from 1857 to 1939. The most clearly documented work connected with his name is Robespierre, a novelized adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s play, published in English in 1899.
Library and catalog sources such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France and The Online Books Page confirm his dates and his authorship, but they offer only limited biographical detail. Because so little has been preserved in easily accessible reference sources, he remains one of those late-19th- and early-20th-century writers known more through a surviving title than through a widely told life story.
That said, his association with Robespierre places him in the orbit of popular historical storytelling of his era, when drama and fiction often brought major political figures to a broad reading public.