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Title: Prince Zilah, Complete

Author: Jules Claretie

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PRINCE ZILAH

By Jules Claretie

With a Preface by Compte d'Haussonville of the French Academy

JULES CLARETIE

Arsene Arnaud Claretie (commonly called Jules), was born on December 3,
1840, at Limoges, the picturesque and smiling capital of Limousin. He
has been rightly called the "Roi de la Chronique" and the "Themistocle
de la Litterature Contemporaine." In fact, he has written, since early
youth, romances, drama, history, novels, tales, chronicles, dramatic
criticism, literary criticism, military correspondence, virtually
everything! He was elected to the French Academy in 1888.

Claretie was educated at the Lycee Bonaparte, and was destined for a
commercial career. He entered a business-house as bookkeeper, but was at
the same time contributing already to newspapers and reviews. In 1862
we find him writing for the Diogene; under the pseudonym, "Olivier
de Jalin," he sends articles to La France; his nom-deplume in
L'Illustration is "Perdican"; he also contributes to the Figaro,
'L'Independence Belge, Opinion Nationale' (1867-1872); he signs articles
in the 'Rappel; as "Candide"; in short, his fecundity in this field
of literature is very great. He is today a most popular journalist and
writes for the 'Presse, Petit Journal, Temps', and others. He has not
succeeded as a politician. Under the second Empire he was often in
collision with the Government; in 1857 he was sentenced to pay a fine of
1,000 francs, which was a splendid investment; more than once lectures
to be given by him were prohibited (1865-1868); in 1871 he was an
unsuccessful candidate for L'Assemblee Nationale, both for La Haute
Vienne and La Seine. Since that time he has not taken any active part in
politics. Perhaps we should also mention that as a friend of Victor Noir
he was called as a witness in the process against Peter