Hector Malot

Hector-Henri Malot, also known as Hector Malot, was a French writer who was born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime, on May 20, 1830. He died on July 18, 1907. He went to school for law in Rouen and Paris, but he eventually fell in love with writing. He reviewed plays for Lloyd Francais and wrote books for L'Opinion Nationale. Les Amants, which came out in 1859, was his first book. Malot wrote more than 70 books in all. Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), about an orphan boy named Remi who is sold to a street musician when he is 8 years old, is by far his best-known book. Sans Famille became known as a book for kids, even though it wasn't written that way at first. In 1895, he said he was done writing fiction, but in 1896, he came back with the novel L'amour Dominateur and a book about his writing life called Le Roman de mes Romans (The Novel of my Novels). He died in 1907 in Fontenay-sous-Bois.