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      • Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier (13 January 1807 – 6 August 1898) was a 19th-century French playwright, lithographer and printer.


      Biography


      The son of a librarian in the Conseil d'État, a teacher of English in the high school of Bourges, he abandoned this business, became a journalist at the Journal du Cher, then a lithographer and printer, patented in Paris February 14, 1829 in succession to Pierre-François Ducarme. In 1829 he founded with the lithographer printer Sylvestre Nicolas Durier the illustrated periodical La Silhouette.
      We owe him numerous lithographs and engravings for theatrical publications and magazines such as Album pour rire or Miroir des dames, and many poster prints. He was also the printer and translator of English language novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853) or Evangeline by Henry Longfellow (1864).
      By his profession, letters were addressed to him by important personalities like Honoré de Balzac who was a friend.
      His plays, including some written under the pseudonym Victor Benoît were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre du Panthéon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique etc.


      Works


      1832: Le Te-Deum et le De Profundis, one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Déaddé Saint-Yves and Michel Théodore Leclercq
      1832: Odette, ou la Petite reine, chronique-vaudeville du temps de Charles VI, with Saint-Yves
      1835: Arthur et Frédéric, ou Un duel d'écoliers
      1838: Rose et Colas, with Saint-Yves and Léon de Villiers, one-act comédie en vaudeville
      1840: Les Chiffonniers et les Balayeurs, tragedies in one act and in verse, with Edmé-Jacques-Benoît Rathery
      1842: Mme Tastu
      1863: Pauvre Père, vaudeville en un acte
      1878: Le Dernier des Wiberg


      Bibliography


      Encyclopédie des gens du monde: répertoire universel des sciences..., vol.4, 1834, p. 737
      Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique..., 1854, p. 670
      Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, vol.2, 1870, p. 1504 (read online)


      References




      External links


      Victor Ratier on Data.bnf.fr

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