APPENDIX
DATES OF PUBLICATION OF NOVELS ARRANGED UNDER AUTHOR'S NAMES IN THE ORDER OF NOTICE HERE
(These dates are given subject to the caution stated under Addenda and Corrigenda for Vol. I., p. xvii of this present volume. It has not been thought necessary to add editions, etc., as was done in Vol. I.: almost all the books referred to being in common sale. For dates of the authors themselves, see Index as before. Those of some books merely glanced at are excluded to save room.)
Staël, Mme. de. Delphine, 1802; Corinne, 1807.
Chateaubriand. Atala, 1801, in the Mercure; René, 1802, in Génie du Christianisme, 1805; Le Dernier Abencérage, 1805; Les Martyrs, 1809; Les Natchez in Œuvres Complètes, 1826-31.
Paul de Kock. L'Enfant de ma Femme, 1812; Gustave, 1821; La Femme, le Mari et l'Amant, 1829; Edmond et sa Cousine, 1843; André le Savoyard, 1825; Jean, 1828. Mon Voisin Raymond; 1822; Le Barbier de Paris, 1826.
Ducray-Duminil. Fanfan et Lolotte, 1787; Le Petit Carillonneur, 1809.
Ducange, V. L'Artiste et la Soldat, 1827; Ludovica, 1830.
Montolieu, Mme. de. Caroline de Lichtfield, 1786.
Ricard, A. L'Ouvreuse de Loges, 1829-32.
Arlincourt, Vicomte d'. Le Solitaire, 1821.
Nodier, Charles. Les Proscrits, Le Peintre de Salzbourg, etc., 1802-6; Jean Sbogar, 1818; Smarra, 1821; Trilby, 1822; La Fée aux Miettes, 1831.
Hugo, Victor. Han d'Islande, 1823; Bug-Jargal, 1824-26; Notre Dame de Paris, 1830; Les Misérables, 1862; Les Travailleurs de la Mer, 1866; L'Homme qui Rit, 1869; Quatre-Vingt-Treize, 1873.
Beyle, Henri. Armance, 1827; Le Rouge et le Noir, 1830; La Chartreuse de Parme, 1839; L'Abbesse de Castro, 1832. First set of posthumous Nouvelles, etc., 1854 onwards; second ditto (Lamiel, etc.), 1887 onwards.
Balzac, H. de. Most of the Juvenilia were written, alone or in collaboration, during the years 1821, 1822, 1823, and 1824, but the period of the whole extends to that of Les Chouans (originally Le Dernier Chouan), 1829. The dates of the rest, especially considering their frequent rearrangement, are too numerous to give. Those chiefly commented on in text appeared as follows: Le Peau de Chagrin, 1831; Eugénie Grandet, 1833; Le Père Goriot, 1834; Les Parents Pauvres, 1846-47.
Sand, George. Indiana, 1832; Valentine, 1832; Lélia, 1833; Consuelo, 1842-43; La Comtesse de Rudolstadt, 1844-45; Lucrezia Floriani, 1847; Elle et Lui, 1859; Un Hiver à Majorque, 1842; La Mare au Diable, 1846; La Petite Fadette, 1840; F. le Champi, 1849; Mauprat, 1837; La Daniella, 1857; Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré, 1858; Le Marquis de Villemer, 1861; Mlle. la Quintinie, 1863; Flamarande, 1875.
Gautier, Théophile. Les Jeune-France, 1833; Mlle. de Maupin, 1835; Fortunio, 1838; Nouvelles, 1845; Jettatura, 1857; Le Capitaine Fracasse, 1863; Spirite, 1866.
Mérimée, Prosper. (Clara Gazul, 1825; La Guzla, 1827; Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, part of Clara Gazul originally, did not reach the stage till 1850.) La Jacquerie, 1828; Chronique de Charles IX, 1829. Most of the stories, including Colomba, appeared between 1830 and 1840. Carmen, 1847; Dernières Nouvelles, 1873.
Musset, A. de. Most of the stories noticed in text appeared originally after 1840 in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and were not collected till after his death in 1857. Mimi Pinson had been published in 1852.
Gérard de Nerval. Work noticed appeared sporadically, in many papers and some books, between 1828 and his death in 1855. The best edition of the Œuvres Complètes is of 1868.
Vigny, A. de. Cinq-Mars, 1826; Stello, 1832; Servitude et Grandeur Militaires, 1835.
Fromentin, Eugène. Dominique, 1863.
Sainte-Beuve, C. A. Volupté, 1834.
Bernard, Ch. de. Gerfaut, 1838; Le Nœud Gordien, 1838; Le Paravent, 1839. The rest between 1840 and his death in 1850.
Sandeau, Jules. Marianna, 1839; Fernand, 1844; Valcreuse, 1846; La Roche aux Mouettes, 1871; Mlle. de La Seiglière, 1851; Sacs et Parchemins, 1851; Mlle. de Kérouare, 1842; La Maison de Penarvon, 1858.
Sue, Eugène. Le Coucaratcha, 1832-34; La Vigie de Koatven, 1833; Les Mystères de Paris, 1842-43; Le Juif Errant, 1844-45; Les Sept Péchés Capitaux, 1847-49.
Soulié, Frédéric. Mémoires du Diable, 1837-38; Le Lion Amoureux, 1839; Le Château des Pyrénées, 1843.
Murger, Henri. [Scènes de] La Vie de Bohême, 1851; Les Buveurs d'Eau, 1855; Adeline Protat, 1853; Le Sabot Rouge, 1860. (Shorter stories at different dates between 1848 (?) and his death in 1861.)
Reybaud, Louis. Jérome Paturot, Part I., 1843; Jérome Paturot, Part II., 1848.
Méry, Joseph. Les Nuits Anglaises, 1853.
Karr, Alphonse. Sous les Tilleuls, 1832.
Beauvoir, Roger de. Stories mostly, 1832-53.
Ourliac, Édouard. Stories mostly, 1835-48.
Achard, Amédée. Belle-Rose, 1847.
Souvestre, Émile. Les Derniers Bretons, 1835-37; Le Foyer Breton, 1844; Un Philosophe sous les Toits, 1850.
Féval, Paul. La Fée des Grèves, 1851.
Borel, Pétrus. Champavert, 1833; Madame Putiphar, 1839.
Dumas père. Isabeau? [-bel? -belle?] de Bavière, 1835; Le Comte de Monte Cristo, 1844-45; Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844; Vingt Ans Après, 1845; La Reine Margot, 1845; Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, 1848-50.
The sequels of La Reine Margot and the major part of the eighteenth-century series appeared between 1846 and 1850; Olympe de Clèves in 1852; Les Louves de Machecoul in 1859. Little of real value in novel later. The period of chief attack on him for plagiarism, supercherie, "novel-manufacture," etc., was 1845-48.
Dumas fils. Tristan le Roux, 1850; La Dame aux Camélias, 1848; Antonine, 1849; La Vie à Vingt Ans, 1854; Aventures de Quatre Femmes et d'un Perroquet, 1846-47; Trois Hommes Forts, 1851; Diane de Lys, 1853; Affaire Clémenceau, 1866; Ilka, 1895.
Janin, Jules. L'Âne Mort et la Femme Guillotinée, 1829; Barnave, 1831.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, 1857; Salammbô, 1862; L'Éducation Sentimentale, 1869; La Tentation de Saint-Antoine, 1848-74; Trois Contes, 1877; Bouvard et Pécuchet, 1881.
Feuillet, Octave. Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre, 1858; M. de Camors, 1867; La Petite Comtesse, 1857; Julia de Trécœur, 1872; Honneur d'Artiste, 1890; La Morte, 1886.
Daudet, Alphonse. Le Petit Chose, 1868; Robert Helmont, 1876; Lettres de Mon Moulin, 1869; Jack, 1862; Tartarin de Tarascon, 1872; Le Nabob, 1877; Les Rois en Exil, 1879; Numa Roumestan, 1890; L'Évangéliste, 1883; Sapho, 1884; L'Immortel, 1888.
About, Edmond. Le Roi des Montagnes, 1856; Tolla, 1855; Germaine, 1867; Madelon, 1863; Maître Pierre, 1858.
Ponson du Terrail, Pierre A. Rocambole, 1859; Les Gandins, 1861.
Gaboriau, Émile. L'Affaire Lerouge, 1866.
Feydeau, Ernest. Fanny, 1858; Sylvie, 1861; Daniel, 1859.
Droz, Gustave. Monsieur, Madame et Bébé, 1866; Entre Nous, 1867.
Cherbuliez, Victor. Le Comte Kostia, 1863; Le Roman d'une Honnête Femme, 1867; Meta Holdenis, 1873; Miss Rovel, 1875; Samuel Brohl et Cie, 1877; Olivier Maugant, 1885.
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules. Les Diaboliques, 1874; L'Ensorcelée, 1854; Un Prête Marié, 1865.
Cladel, Léon. Les Va-nu-pieds, 1873; Crête-Rouge, 1880; La Fête Votive de Saint-Bartholomée Porte-Glaive, 1872.
Champfleury. Les Excentriques, 1852; Madame Eugénio, 1874.
Goncourt, E. and J. Dates in text: from 1860 to 1870.
---- E. only. Chérie, 1884.
Zola, É. Contes à Ninon, 1864; L'Attaque du Moulin, 1880; The Rougon-Macquart books, 1871-93; "Les Trois Villes," 1894-98; "Les Quatre Évangiles," 1890-1903.
Maupassant, Guy de. Boule de Suif, 1880; La Maison Tellier, 1881; Bel-Ami, 1885; Une Vie, 1883; Pierre et Jean, 1888; Fort comme la Mort, 1889; Notre Cœur, 1890. Smaller Tales, 1880-93, and posthumously.
Huysmans, J. K. Contribution to Les Soirées de Médan, 1880; Les Sœurs Vatard, 1879; Là-Bas, 1891; À Rebours, 1884.
Belot, Adolphe. Mlle. Giraud ma Femme, 1870; La Femme de Feu, 1872.
Fabre, Ferdinand. L'Abbé Tigrane, 1873; Norine, 1889; Le Marquis de Pierrerue, 1874; Mon Oncle Célestin, 1881; Lucifer, 1884; Taillevent, 1894; Toussaint Galabru, 1887.
Theuriet, André. Sauvageonne, 1881; Raymonde, 1877; Le Fils Maugars, 1879.
Ohnet, Georges. Serge Panine, 1881; Le Maître de Forges, 1882; Le Docteur Rameau, 1888; La Grande Marnière, 1885.
Rod, Édouard. La Course à la Mort, 1885; Le Sens de la Vie, 1889; La Vie Privée de Michel Teissier, 1893 (2nd part, 1894); La Sacrifiée, 1892; Le Silence, 1894; Là-Haut, 1897; L'Eau Courante, 1902.
Mendès, Catulle. Lesbia, 1886.
(In a not inconsiderable number of cases a difference of one year will be found, from the dates as given in some reference books. This, which renews the elder trouble of "Old" and "New" Style, arises, probably, if not certainly, from the fact of the book having appeared late in autumn or early in spring, with a title-page, anticipatory or retrospective, as the case may be. The same thing occurs, of course, with English books; but not, I think, so often. French books, moreover, unless I am mistaken, not infrequently appear with no date on title-page.)