Albert Cim

Albert-Antoine Cimochowski , known as Albert Cim , born with Bar-le-Duc the October 22nd 1845 and dead the May 8th 1924, is a novelist, critical literary and French bibliographer.

Born from a French mother and a father officer Polish taken refuge in France after the insurrection of 1830, Albert Cimochowski starts with Paris in 1861 a career of civil servant to the Postes and telegraphs and, under the name of Albert Cim, begins in journalism by articles from philology, critic and bibliography which are quickly noticed. He collaborates in many newspapers and holds the heading literary Revue of the Radical of 1881 with 1894, then National of 1895 with 1897. He also takes part in the drafting of the Dictionnaire of the French language of Littré. In parallel, it publishes in bookstore of the works for youth and the novels, which are worth to him to be five times prize winner of the French Academy, as well as documentary, literary and bibliographical studies. In 1896, he becomes librarian with the under-secretary's department of State of the Stations and the telegraphs. He is also member of the Société of the men of letters, of which he is twice vice-president.

Works

Youth, manners of province (1880)
Service of night (1885)
Friendly of childhood (1887)
Institution of young ladies, Parisian manners (1887)
Two unhappy (1888) Text in line
the Street of the Three Beautiful (1888)
a Corner of province (1889)
Prowesses of a girl (1890)
Bluestockings (1891)
Good Friend (1892)
In full glory, history of one mystification (1893)
childish Spectacles (1893)
Young ladies to marry (1894)
Merry City (1894)
History of a kiss (1894) Text in line
Only sons. The nephew of Miss Papillon (1895) Text in line
Famous Barastol, life and adventures of a commercial traveller (1896)
Grand'-Mother and grandson (1896)
Only sons. The Nephew of Miss Papillon (1896)
Césarin, history of a vagrant (1897) Text in line
the Small Fairy (1898)
Young Loves (1898)
Émancipées (1899)
Jokers (1900)
Miss Cœur of Angel, history of an aunt, her nephews, its nieces and its animals (1900)
a library: art to buy the books, to classify them, to preserve them and to make use (1902) of it Text in line
the Dinner of the men of letters: literary memories (1903) Text in line
Amateurs and robbers of books: indelicate borrowers, robbers by love of the books, robbers by love of the money; flights in the public libraries, at the editors, booksellers, secondhand booksellers, etc (1903. Republication: Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 1998.
Small Léveillé (1903) Text in line
the Novel of a good boy (1904)
Tales and memories of my country (1904) Text in line
My friends and me (1905)
the Book: history, manufacture, purchase, classification, use and maintenance (5 volumes, 1905-1908)
the Four wire Hémon (1906)
Chansonnier Emile Debraux, king of the goguette, 1796-1831 (1910)
Offices and bureaucrats, memories of an employee of the postal and telecommunications authorities (1910)
the Revenge of Absalon (1911)
Disappeared! History of a child lost (1912)
My holidays: drive out with the bear; two friends, the Laverdure father and his Finaud dog; the wheelbarrow of my grandfather; boarders! … etc, etc (1912)
the First prize (1913)
Mystifying and mystified famous (1913)
Between comrades (1914)
Slides of the literary world: Nina de Villard and her living room (1919)
Women and the books (1919)
literary Recreations. Curiosities and singularities, blunders and lapse, etc (1920) Text in line
New literary and historical Recreations. Curiosities and Singularities. Blunders and Lapse, etc Historians. Philosophers. Speakers. Doctors. Politicians. Journalists. Ecclesiastics. Women writers. Appendix. Typographical shells (1921)
Two cousins (1921)
Small Handbook of the amateur of books (1923)
Friendly of childhood (1924)
Professional work. The order, clearness, the writing, manias of the writers (1924) Text in line

Source

biographical Elements according to C. - E. Curinier, national Dictionary of the contemporaries , vol. II, 1899-1919, p. 329-330.

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