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2 unusual facts about Xavier de Montépin


Xavier de Montépin

The author of serialised novels (feuilletons) and popular plays, he is best known for the 19th-Century best-seller, La Porteuse de pain (The Bread Peddler), which was first published in Le Petit Journal, from 1884 to 1889, and underwent many adaptations for theatre, film and television.

Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin, born in Apremont, Haute-Saône 10 March 1823 and died in Paris on 30 April 1902, was a popular French novelist.



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