Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Pierre-Jules Hetzel , born the January 15th 1814 with Chartres and dead the March 17th 1886 with Monte Carlo, is a writer and editor French.
Pierre-Jules Hetzel made studies of Droit to Strasbourg, then founded a publisher in 1837. Hetzel was the editor of Honore de Balzac of which he undertook the edition of the human Comédie in 1841, of Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.
In 1843 it founds the Nouveau store of the children .
In 1844 and 1845, it publishes two collective works under the title the Devil in Paris , collection of satirical tales and articles for which it calls upon large feathers: Honore de Balzac, George Sand, Charles Nodier around the free illustrations of Grandville and Gavarni. It takes part in the drafting of the first work whose title is a wink with the human Comedy , with a title hooker: Scenes of the private life and public of the animals. Studies of manners , to which it contributed under its pseudonym of P. - J. Stahl. Success is such as it must publish the second volume of the same style.
In 1848, Hetzel, enthusiast republican, is principal private secretary of Alphonse of Lamartine, then Foreign Minister, then near the Minister for the Navy. At the time of the Coup d'etat of December 2nd, 1851 which sees the advent of the Second Empire, it is exiled in Belgium, and it continues there its work of editor, publishing clandestinely the Punishments .
When the Régime is liberalized, it returns in France. It publishes Proudhon and supports Baudelaire. One owes him an outstanding edition of the tales of Charles Perrault illustrated by Gustave Doré, which it prefaces itself. It creates the illustrated Bibliothèque of the Families, which becomes the Magasin of education and recreation in 1864. Its project is to make collaborate the scientists, the writer S and the illustrators, with an aim of reconciling the Science and the Fiction, to put the Imagination at the service of the Pédagogie. It is a position difficult to hold in a climate Positiviste.
It is especially by the editions of the extraordinary Voyages of Jules Verne that he is a great success. The texts prépubliés in the Magasin is published under three collections intended for the New Year's gifts, one economic without illustration, another of small size not very illustrated and the third of a larger format and richly illustrated today extremely sought by the Bibliophile S.
Pierre-Jules Hetzel wrote Romance S for the Jeunesse under the pseudonym of P. - J. Stahl. Its publisher, taken again by his/her son with his death, was then repurchased by Hachette, the concurrent house in 1914.
Works of P. - J. Stahl
Childhood and Youth
- Four Fears of our General
- Tales and Récits of morals familiar
- Stories of my Godfather
- History of an Ass and of two young girls
- Maroussia , according to Marko Wovzog
- money Shoes, according to Maps Dodge
- Four Girls of Dr. Marsch , according to Alcott
For the ripe age
- Parisian Good fortunes
- Scenes of the private life of the animals. Studies of contemporary manners
- History of a Man caught cold
- Voyage of a Student
- the Spirit of the Women and Women of Spirit
- Theory of the Love and Jealousy
- History of a Prince and a Princess
- Voyage where it you will like (of Musset and Stahl)
- Animaux painted by themselves (many articles)
- the Devil in Paris collective collection of tales of Honore de Balzac, Georges Sand, Charles Nodier, J.P.Stahl (Hetzel ), and of satirical articles.
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