Baldick, Robert (Personal Name)

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Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2017 (Robert Baldick; Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 - April 1972), was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well-known translator. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He wrote eight books including biographies of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Frédérick Lemaître and Henry Murger and a history of the Siege of Paris. In addition he edited and translated The Goncourt Journals and a number of the classics of French literature including works by Gustave Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne, and Henri Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Georges Simenon)

Obituaries from the Times, 1971-1975, ©1978: page 33 (Dr. Robert Baldick, F.R.S.L., Fellow of Pembroke COllege, Ocford, died on April 24, 1972. He was 44 and one of the most gifted and versatile scholars in the field of French literature and culture. Born in Huddersfield on November 9, 1927)