Robert Baldick

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Robert Baldick (1927-1972) was a Fellow of Pembroke College Oxford, a french scholar, writer, editor of the Penguin classics and a well-known translator. He wrote eight books including biographies of JK Huysmans, Frederick Le Maitre 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 Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Sartre, Jules Verne and Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Simenon. He died in 1972.