VIZETELLY, Ernest Alfred, English author, translator and war correspondent; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; French medal of the War of 1870-71: b. 29 Nov. 1853; son of H. R. Vizetelly. He was educated at Lycie imperial Bonaparte, now Condorcet, Paris. During the Franco-German War (1870) he became a newspaper correspondent (young est on record) and artist tor Daily Netus, Pall Mall Gazette, and Illustrated London News; was in Paris during part of the German siege; passed out, joined the Army of the Loire, at tached to Staff of Third Division 21st Army corps; was in Paris throughout the Com mune; continued acting in a journalistic capacity on the C,ontinent until about 1886 he became an editor and reader to Vizetelly and Company, publishers. After the liquidation of that business, conse quent upon a prosecution for publishing trans lations ot some of Zola's novels, Mr. Vizetelly reverted to journalism; but in later years pre pared or edited English versions of most of Zola's works, besides producing 'The Hep tameron' (English Bibliophilists' edition, 5 vols., 1894); 'The True Story of the Chevalier
d'Eon) (1895); (With Zola in England' (1899) ; (Bluebeard, Comorre the Cursed and Gilles de Rais) (1902); (Emile Zola, Novelist and Reformer' (1904) ; (The Anarchists, their Creed and Record' (1911); also (The Scorpion, a romance of Spain' (1894) ; (A Path of Thorns, a story of French Life) (1901); (The Lover's Progress) (1902); (Le Petit Homme Rouge: The Court of the Tuileries) (1907) ; (The Favourites of Henry of Navarre) (1910) ; 'The Favourites of Louis XIV) (1912); 'Re publican France (1870-1912)) (1912); (My Days of Adventure) (1914) ; (My Adventures in the Commune of Paris' (1914); (In Seven Lands) (1916).