Erckmann-Chatrian

[erk-man-sha-tree-ahn]

noun

1. joint pen name of Émile Erckmann 1822–99, and Alexandre Chatrian 1826–90, collaborating French novelists and dramatists.

Example Sentences

"Written in that charming style of simplicity which has made the Erckmann-Chatrian works popular in every language in which they have been published."

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There is hardly anything else resembling it in literature, except the great cluster of English dramatists in the beginning of the 17th century, and of English poets at the beginning of the 19th; and it is remarkable that the excellence of the first group was maintained by a fresh generation—Murger, About, Feuillet, Flaubert, Erckmann-Chatrian, Droz, Daudet, Cherbuliez and Gaboriau, forming a company of diadochi not far inferior to their predecessors, and being themselves not unworthily succeeded almost up to the present day.

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"The Blockade of Phalsburg" contains one of the happiest portraits in the Erckmann-Chatrian gallery—that of the Jew Moses who tells the story and who is always in character, however great the patriotic or romantic temptation to idealize him, and whose character is nevertheless portrayed with an almost affectionate appreciation of the sterling qualities underlying its somewhat usurious exterior.

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Erckmann-Chatrian give a clearer and more impressive notion in this book than could be obtained from entire volumes of parliamentary reports and whole files of newspapers.

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Erckmann-Chatrian this enthusiasm and devotion find a chronicle which is most realistically impressive.

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