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Edmond François Valentin About, born in Paris, is a French writer, journalist and art critic, member of the French Academy.


Edmond About is also a comic author as he knows how to handle satire.


He knows celebrity thanks to his short, clear and concise short stories and his novels which evoke imaginary situations, often inspired by the progress of science.


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Towards the middle of rue de l'Université, between number 51 and 57, you can see four hotels that can be counted among the most beautiful in Paris.


The first belongs to Mr. Pozzo di Borgo; the second, to the Count de Mailly; the third, to the Duke of Choiseul; the last to Baron de Sanglié.


It is the one at the corner of rue Bellechasse.


The Hotel de Sanglié is a dwelling of noble appearance.


The porte cochère opens onto a courtyard of sand, carefully sanded and lined with hundred-year-old trellises.


The Swiss lodge is on the left, hidden under a thick ivy where the sparrows and the gatekeepers babble in unison.


At the end of the courtyard on the right, a large porch, sheltered under a canopy, leads to the vestibule and the grand staircase.


The ground floor and the first are occupied by the baron alone; he enjoys without sharing a vast garden bounded by other gardens, populated by warblers, blackbirds and squirrels which go from one to the other in full freedom, as if they were inhabitants of a wood , and not citizens of Paris.