ARMAND AUGUSTIN JOSEPH MARIE PONTMARTIN
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A French story-writer and literary critic; born at Avignon, July 16, 1811; died there, 1890. In 1853 he commenced a series of "Literary Talks" in the Gazette de France, which, collected, fill 30 volumes. Among his works are: "Recollections of an Old Lover of Music" (1878); "Medusa's Raft" (1872); "Recollections of an Old Critic"; "My Memoirs" (2 vols., 1885-86); "Sins of Old Age" (1889); "Literary Episodes" (1890).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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