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

Benédict Henry Révoil (1816–1882)

Révoil, Benédict Henry (rev-wäy”). A French novelist and dramatist; born in Aix (Bouches-du-Rhône), Dec. 16, 1816; died in 1882. He lived in the United States for nine years, during which time he collected the material for many of his works. They include: ‘Hunting and Fishing of the Other World’ (1856); ‘The Daughter of the Comanches’; and ‘Dramas from the New World’ (1864–65), a number of plays which he put on the stage in the United States, and afterwards published in France.