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George Du Maurier

GEORGE LOUIS PALMELLA BUSSON DU MAURIER was born in Paris in 1834, and died in England in 1896. His father, a naturalized British subject, was the son of emigre's who had left France during the Reign of Terror and settled in London. In "Peter Ibbetson," the first of the three books which won du Maurier, late in life, a reputation as novelist, almost as great as he had enjoyed as artist and humorist for more than a generation, the author depicts his own singularly happy childhood.

He was brought to London when three or four years old, but vague memories of this period were suddenly exchanged, one beautiful day in June, for the charming realities of a French garden, and an "old yellow house with green shutters and mansard roofs of slate." Here at Passy, with his" gay and jovial father and his young English mother," the boy spent seven years of sweet, priceless home life.