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Comment peut-on être censeur?: L'exemple de Victor Hallays-Dabot
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 39, Number 3 & 4, Spring-Summer 2011
- pp. 259-270
- 10.1353/ncf.2011.0004
- Article
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This article is a case study. It aims at understanding the life course and motivations that lead an individual to become a drama censor during the nineteenth century. Victor Hallays-Dabot was such a censor. As a young man, he was close to some of literature most important figures in the educational institution that was run by his father. He eventually worked as a rather obscure civil servant at the Public Instruction and Fine Arts Department, before becoming a well-known examiner.