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"Privat d'Anglemont once wrote a lively book on the unknown trades of the capital of which he was the reigning Bohemian — and dived under the surface far enough to reach the breeder of gentles for anglers, and the painter of turkeys legs [Le peintre de pattes de dindons] to give the birds a fresh appearance. Our neighbours are ingenious, but they have not overmatched London ingenuity in the art of contriving strange occupations."--Life of Gustave Doré (1891) by Blanchard Jerrold


"For all its light-hearted absurdities La Childebert was not Bohemia, for its existence belonged rather to that of irresponsible students than of artists. I only mention it by way of contrast, as I now mention again Privat d'Anglemont, the author of "Paris Inconnu" and "Paris Anecdote," legendary as a Bohemian, but of a very different type. " --"Murger and His Work" (1888) by Vizetelly


"Particulars of the strange and repulsive trade in harlequins, which even nowadays is not extinct, will be found in Privat d'Anglemont's well-known book Paris Anecdote, written at the very period with which M. Zola deals in the present work. My father. Henry Vizetelly, also gave some account of it in his Glances Back Through Seventy Years, in a chapter describing the odd ways in which certain Parisians contrive to get a living."--Le Ventre de Paris (1873) by Émile Zola, note by translator Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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Alexandre Privat d'Anglemont (1815 - 1859) was a French writer.

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Alexandre Privat d'Anglemont est connu surtout pour ses deux livres d'anecdotes sur Paris, Paris anecdote (1854) et Paris inconnu (1861). Il était considéré de son vivant comme l'incarnation du mode de vie bohème, au même titre qu'Henry Murger, relatant les histoires incroyables du Paris du premier Template:S-. Ennemi de l'ennui, ses contemporains, qui évitèrent quant à eux de sombrer dans l'oubli, voyait en lui le chantre du divertissement, particulièrement nocturne. Le second parut à titre posthume, l'auteur étant mort de tuberculose.

Poulet-Malassis a rapporté qu'il a signé de son nom des vers de Baudelaire, Banville et Nerval. Il semble en vérité que les emprunts entre les trois poètes furent réciproques. Dans la biographie qu'il a consacrée à Privat d'Anglemont, Willy Alante-Lima argumente une attribution erronée de quelques poèmes de jeunesse de Privat à Baudelaire.

Le 18 juillet 1865, Alfred Delvau lui dédie Les heures parisiennes illustrées par Émile Bénassit.

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