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Author Description Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.<br />His first book, published in 1859, was <i>Les Amants</i>. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is <i>Sans Famille</i> (<i>Nobody's Boy</i>, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. <i>Sans Famille</i> gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.<br />He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel <i>L'amour Dominateur</i> as well as the account of his literary life <i>Le Roman de mes Romans</i> (<i>The Novel of my Novels</i>).

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