About Georges Fath
Lived 1818 – 1900 (aged 82). Georges Fath was a French playwright and illustrator.
Théodore Georges Fath (Paris, 22 January 1818 – Maisons-Laffitte, 1900) was a 19th-century French playwright, illustrator and writer as well as Jacques Fath's great-grandfather.
Biography He first studied sculpture and became known in 1840 with a drama, La Femme de l'émigré.
Apart from his own works, Fath illustrated the Contes d'une vieille fille à ses neveux by Delphine de Girardin, with Gustave Doré for Michel Lévy (1866), the Historiettes véritables pour les enfants de quatre à huit ans by Zulma Carraud (1879) and Jeux et exercices des jeunes filles by Madame de Chabreul for Hachette (1890), Jocrisse et sa sœur by Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1878) or else Un petit-fils de Robinson by Philibert Audebrand in collaboration with Aloys Fellmann for the éditions Lefèvre (1878).
He wrote feuilletons, novels and short stories. Je also translated the tales by Christoph von Schmid (1852) for the Magasin des enfants.
Works
1840: La Femme de l'émigré, two-act drama mingled with songs, with Adolphe Guénée 1844: De Charybde en Scylla, vaudeville 1845: Les nains célèbres depuis l'antiquité, jusques et y compris Tom-Pouce, Havard 1847: Partie à trois, one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Eugène Nus and Auguste Follet 1849: La mort de Chatterton, drama in verse, Havard 1855: La Prison de Schlusselbourg 1856: Le Dernier jour d'une monarchie, five-act drama, with Auriol 1863: Les Brûleurs de villes 1865: La sagesse des enfants, proverbes, Hachette 1867: Gredin de Pigoche !, one-act operetta, with Michel Masson 1868: Pierrot à l'école, , Hetzel 1869: Le Paris des enfants, petit voyage à travers la grande ville, Hachette 1871: Marie la petite étourdie, Bernardin-Béchet 1873: Les Contes du vieux docteur, Ducrocq 1874: Le Paris des enfants. Petit voyage à travers la grande ville, text and illustrations, Hachette 1875: Perdus au milieu de Paris, histoire de trois orphelin, Ducrocq 1877: Le Bon cœur de Lucette, Bernardin-Béchet 1877: L'Éducation d'Aline, Ducrocq 1878: Un drôle de voyage, Hetzel 1880: Pierrot à l'école et chez son ami Paillasse, 55 vignettes by Fath, text by Fath and un Papa, Hetzel 1881: Prisonniers dans les glaces, Plon 1882: Les cataractes de l'Obi, voyage dans les steppes sibériennes, Plon 1883: Les Études de Petit-Pierre, text and drawings, Delagrave 1885: La Sagesse des enfants, proverbes, text and illustrations, Hachette 1888: Bernard, la gloire de son village, Hachette
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Who was Georges Fath?
French playwright and illustrator (1818-1900)
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Georges Fath was born on 22 January 1818 in Paris.
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Georges Fath died on 29 June 1900 in Maisons-Laffitte.
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Georges Fath was a playwright and illustrator.
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Georges Fath was French.
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