Antoine Gustave Droz

A series of sketch stories dealing gaily with the intimacies of family life, published in the magazine La Vie Parisienne and issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bébé (1866), won for the author an immediate and great success.

The publication Entre Nous (1867) was similar, and was followed by some psychological novels: Le Cahier Bleu de Mlle Cibot (1868); Autour d'une Source (1869); Un Paquet de Lettres (1870); Babolain (1872); Les Étangs (1875); Une Femme Gênante (1875); and L'Enfant (1885).

His Tristesses et Sourires (1884) is a delicate analysis of the niceties of family intercourse and its difficulties.

[1] "Gustave Droz saw love within marriage as the key to human happiness..." "He urged women to follow their hearts and marry a man nearly their own age."

[2] Gustave Dore wrote "Monsieur-Madame & Bebe, with illustrations by Edmond Morin, first published 1878 by Victor Havard, Paris.