Antoine Gustave Droz
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Antoine Gustave Droz French man of letters, son of the sculptor J. A. Droz (1807-1872), was born in Paris
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He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857. A series of sketches dealing gaily and lightly with the intimacies of family life, published in the Vie parisienne and issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bb (1866), won for the author an immediate and great success. Entre flous (1867) was built on a similar plan, and was followed by some psychological novels: Le Cahier bieu de Mile Cibot (1868); Autour dune source (1869); Un Paquet de lettres (1870); Babolein (1872); Les Etangs (1875); and L'Enfant (1885). His Tristesses et sourires (1884) is a delicate analysis of the niceties of family intercourse and its difficulties. Droz's first book was translated into English under the title of Papa, Mamma and Baby (1887). Un EU d la campagne, a book which caused considerable scandal, was erroneously attributed to him.
Gustave Droz saw love within marriage as the key to human hapiness and condemned any man who made marriage sound dull and practical. He urged women to follow their heats and marry a man nearly their own age.
"' A husband who is stately and a little bald is all right, but a young husband who loves you and drinks out of your glass without ceremony is better. Let him, if he ruffles your dress a little and places a kiss on your neck as he passes. Let him, if he undresses you after the ball, laughing like a fool. You have fine spiritual qualities, it is true, but your little body is not bad either and when one loves, one loves completely. Behind these follies lies happiness" Quoted in Zeldin, France
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He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857. A series of sketches dealing gaily and lightly with the intimacies of family life, published in the Vie parisienne and issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bb (1866), won for the author an immediate and great success. Entre flous (1867) was built on a similar plan, and was followed by some psychological novels: Le Cahier bieu de Mile Cibot (1868); Autour dune source (1869); Un Paquet de lettres (1870); Babolein (1872); Les Etangs (1875); and L'Enfant (1885). His Tristesses et sourires (1884) is a delicate analysis of the niceties of family intercourse and its difficulties. Droz's first book was translated into English under the title of Papa, Mamma and Baby (1887). Un EU d la campagne, a book which caused considerable scandal, was erroneously attributed to him.
Gustave Droz saw love within marriage as the key to human hapiness and condemned any man who made marriage sound dull and practical. He urged women to follow their heats and marry a man nearly their own age.
"' A husband who is stately and a little bald is all right, but a young husband who loves you and drinks out of your glass without ceremony is better. Let him, if he ruffles your dress a little and places a kiss on your neck as he passes. Let him, if he undresses you after the ball, laughing like a fool. You have fine spiritual qualities, it is true, but your little body is not bad either and when one loves, one loves completely. Behind these follies lies happiness" Quoted in Zeldin, France
- this paragraph about marriage and the quote are found in A History of Western Society 7th edition, McKay Hill Buckler on page 810*