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4 unusual facts about Ernest Alfred Vizetelly


Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Ernest re-published some of his fathers works about Émile Zola but modified them.

Ernest was in France during the Franco-Prussian War and wrote a memoir of his experiences My days of adventure; the fall of France, 1870-71 which also contains an auto-biographical introduction.

He was a son of the English publisher Henry Vizetelly, by his first marriage to Ellen Elizabeth Pollard.

George Montbard

In My Days of Adventure; The Fall of France, 1870–71, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, who had hired Montbard as an illustrator, writes that at that time Montbard "was a Republican—in fact, a future Communard" and did not appreciate an unexpected meeting in the street with Napoleon III, who took an interest in the sketch he was making.



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