In Paris he met Anatole France, and embarked on translating some of the works of Guy de Maupassant, Molière, and Zola, of whom he was at this period of his career a faithful disciple.
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During his lifetime and after, though Jakšiċ had many admirers—they included Konstantin Danil, his former art teacher, portrait painter Katarina Ivanović, Uroš Knežević, painters Pavle Čorbanović, Jovan Popović, and Đorđe Krstić, and, among the poets and writers, Laza Kostić, Simo Matavulj, Kosta Trifković, Svetozar Miletić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Vojislav Ilić.
Later when his sons were growing up, among the guests were: Milovan Glišić, Janko Veselinović, Simo Matavulj, Svetolik Ranković, Stevan Sremac, Radoje Domanović, Milorad Petrović Seljančica, Aleksa Šantić, Jovan Skerlić, Stevan Mokranjac, Stevan M. Luković, and many others.
His contemporaries were Veljko M. Milićević, Ivo Ćipiko, Borisav Stanković, Janko Veselinović, Petar Kočić, Simo Matavulj, Radoje Domanović, Milorad J. Mitrović (poet), Stevan Sremac, Laza Kostić and others.