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Ange Galdemar

1857–1939

A French-language writer born in Mauritius, he is remembered today for a historical novel built around Victorien Sardou’s drama Robespierre. His small surviving bibliography gives him the feel of a literary footnote with a surprisingly vivid connection to French Revolutionary storytelling.

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Robespierre : $b the story of Victorien Sardou's play adapted and novelized under his authority

Robespierre : $b the story of Victorien Sardou's play adapted and novelized under his authority

by Ange Galdemar, Victorien Sardou

About the author

Born in Mauritius in 1857, Ange Galdemar was a French-language author. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists him as a male writer from France’s literary sphere, with his death recorded in Épinay-sur-Seine in March 1939.

The work most clearly linked to him today is Robespierre, a novelized version of Victorien Sardou’s play. Library and public-domain records show that this book was published in 1899 and credit Galdemar alongside Sardou, suggesting that his lasting place in print comes from adapting dramatic material into historical narrative.

Reliable biographical information on Galdemar is quite limited, and major reference sources do not seem to preserve much beyond those basic facts. That scarcity makes him an intriguing figure for readers interested in overlooked writers whose names survive mainly through a single historical work.