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Jean du Rébrac
Known today mostly through a handful of surviving publications, this French-language writer left a small but intriguing trace in late 19th-century print culture. A short story credited to this name appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1897, suggesting a voice that briefly crossed into an international literary world.
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Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour
by Paul Arène, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Henry de Forge, Ernest Laut, Guy de Maupassant, Montjoyeux, François de Nion, Jacques Normand, Jean du Rébrac
About the author
Jean du Rébrac is an obscure author, and only a few firmly documented details are easy to confirm. Public-domain library records identify the name as that of a contributor to The Strand Magazine, where the story "His Word of Honour" appeared in volume 14 in 1897. Project Gutenberg also lists Jean du Rébrac among the contributors to Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour, a French collection that includes work by several well-known writers.
Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is safest to treat Jean du Rébrac as a little-documented literary figure rather than build a fuller life story from guesswork. That mystery is part of the appeal: the name survives not through a large, famous body of work, but through a few preserved entries that still hint at a place in the lively magazine and anthology culture of the late 1800s.