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Émile de La Bédollière (1812–1883)

La Bédollière, Émile Gigault de (lä bād-ōl-yãr’). A French historian and social analyst; born at Amiens, 1812; died in Paris, 1883. He wrote: ‘History of Paris’ (1864); ‘History of the Morals and Private Life of the French’ (1847); ‘History of Mother Michel and of her Cat’ (1851), a delightful mock-serious tale, translated into English by T. B. Aldrich for St. Nicholas.