Alfred Vallette (1858,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

– 1935) was a French man of letters. He founded (in 1890) and edited the ''

Mercure de France The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was published ...

'', a Symbolist review publication. His wife,

Rachilde Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (11 February 1860 – 4 April 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on t ...

, helped him to edit it.

Publications

*''À l'écart'', avec Raoul Minhar, Paris, Perrin, 1891 ; réédition chez Honoré Champion, 2004. *''La Vie grise. Le Vierge'', Paris, Tresse et Stock, 1891 — Read online
/small>. *''Le Roman d'un homme sérieux : Alfred Vallette à Rachilde, 1885-1889'', Mercure de France, Paris, 1943. Réédition (preface Édith Silve), Mercure de France, 1994. *''Lettres à A.-Ferdinand Herold, 1891-1935, et quelques-unes à son épouse'', avant-propos et notes par Claire Lesage, Philippe Oriol, Christian Soulignac, Paris, Éditions du Fourneau, 1992. * ''In perpetuum'', roman inédit, Paris, Éditions du Fourneau, 1992.

External links

* * 1858 births 1935 deaths Writers from Paris Symbolist writers French male writers {{France-writer-stub