Max O'Rell

Max O'Rell was the stage name of Léon Paul Blouet (* March 2, 1847, † May 25, 1903 in Paris), a French authors and journalists.

A native of Brittany O'Rell served in the German -French war as a cavalry officer and was taken prisoner at Sedan. However, he was released in time to join the army of Versailles, which overwhelmed the Paris Commune. During the siege of Paris, he was seriously injured.

1872 moved O'Rell to England, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for several French newspapers. From 1876 to 1884 he was employed as a French teacher at St Paul's School in London.

The overwhelming success of his first book, John Bull et son île, which was so widespread in English and translated in French-speaking, that his pen name practically became known in England and America, O'Rell eventually caused them to leave St Paul 's School.

Several other books with similar content followed. Since 1874 he was married to an Englishwoman, who translated his books. Its main operation between the years 1890 and 1900 consisted of lectures, however. Max O'Rell was regarded as quick-witted and amusing speaker, his informal and humorous style earned him a lot of sympathy in his environment a. He often lectured in the UK and even more frequently in the United States.

O'Rell died in May 1903 in Paris, where he worked as a correspondent for the New York Journal American.

Works

• John Bull And His Iceland
• John Bull's Womankind (1884 )
• John Bull & Co
• A Frenchman In America ( 1891)
• Jonathan And His Continent: Rambles Through American Society (1899 )
• Woman And Artist ( 1900)
• Her Royal Highness Woman ( 1901)
• Between Ourselves: Some Of The Little Problems In Life (1902 )
• Woman Rambles In Country (1903 )
• The Dear Neighbours!
• Drat The Boys; or, Recollections Of An Ex - French Master ...

• Her Royal Highness the woman (Leipzig 1925)
• Brother Jonathan and his country, (Stuttgart 1889)