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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Alfred-Frédéric-Pierre, Comte de Falloux du Coudray (1811–1886)

Falloux du Coudray, Alfred-Frédéric-Pierre, Comte de (fä-ö’). A French historical, political, and controversial writer and publicist; born in Angers, May 7, 1811; died there, Jan. 7, 1886. Legitimist and clerical sympathies influenced his career, his typical writings being: ‘Madame Swetchine, her Life and Works’ (1859); ‘Story of Louis XVI.’ (6th ed. 1881); and ‘Political Speeches and Miscellany’ (1882).