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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edmond Francois Valentin About (14 February 1828 - 16 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle departement in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the Aecole Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first. Among his college contemporaries, besides Taine, were Francisque Sarcey, Challemel-Lacour and Prevost-Paradol. Of them all, About was considered the most highly vitalized, exuberant, brilliant and undisciplined . It is said that one of his schoolmasters told him You will never be more than a little Voltaire, and About's career did tend toward Voltaire-style witty satire and commentaries on contemporary issues.

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