Erckmann-Chatrian

American  

[erk-man-sha-tree-ahn] / ɛrk man ʃa triˈɑ̃ /

noun

1. joint pen name of Émile Erckmann 1822–99, and Alexandre Chatrian 1826–90, collaborating French novelists and dramatists.

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Example Sentences

All history yields hardly a famous poem representing a marriage of two minds, and only a few famous works of fiction�the novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Erckmann-Chatrian have not thought it right or necessary to depart in this case from their practice of abstaining from all prefaces or notes in every edition of their works.

From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian

The taste for the novel of incident, which had nearly died out, was renewed in another form, with the admixture of domestic interest, by the literary partners, Erckmann-Chatrian.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

At the Lyceum in 1871 Henry Irving had leapt into fame by means of his performance of Mathias in The Bells, an adaptation from the French of Erckmann-Chatrian.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various