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Jean du Rébrac
A little-known French writer from the late 19th century, he survives in the record through a handful of short stories rather than a well-documented public life. His name is especially linked to “Parole d'honneur,” a story published in 1897 and later translated in The Strand Magazine as “His Word of Honour.”
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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 appears to have been a French short-story writer whose biographical details are now hard to trace. Reliable library and public-domain records confirm his name as the author of “Parole d'honneur,” and modern catalog entries place him among the contributors to the anthology Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour.
What can be said with confidence is that his work circulated internationally: Wikisource identifies him as the contributor of a short story to The Strand Magazine in 1897, where “Parole d'honneur” was published in English as “His Word of Honour.” That suggests a writer active in the French press and popular story culture of the period, even if fuller personal details have not been preserved in the sources easily available today.
Because so little verified biographical information survives, the most honest portrait of Jean du Rébrac is through the work itself: a late-19th-century French storyteller whose fiction traveled beyond its original language and still leaves a faint but intriguing footprint in literary archives.