Nostradamus

Rio De Janeiro / Buenos Aires: Editorial Tor, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 316 Pp. Illustrated Large Format Wrappers. Spanish Language Edition. Light Wear. Michel Zevaco (Also Written As Zévaco) (1860- 1918) Was A French Journalist, Novelist, Publisher, Film Director, And Anti-Clerical As Well As Anarchist Activist. Michel Zevaco Founded The Anarchist Weekly Magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) On 27 March 1892. A Month Later He Was Jailed For 6 Months And Fined For Praising Pini And Ravachol. Afterwards He Wrote For Sébastien Faure's Journal, Libertaire, As Well As For The Anarchist Newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, He Edited L'anticlérical, For The Anticlerical League Of France And Was Involved In Supporting Alfred Dreyfus During The Eponymous Dreyfus Affair. Zevaco's Famous Cloak And Dagger Novels, Les Pardaillan, Began To Be Serialized In The Daily Newspapers In 1900 To Great Popular Success. A Former School Teacher, Then An Officer, He Became A Militant Journalist, Who Wrote For Various Revolutionary Newspapers, Of Anarchist Tendency. He Became Famous Mainly For The Part He Played In The Anti-Clerical Struggles At The End Of The 19Th Century. Then, As A Writer Of Serial Novels, He Published Works Which Had A Great Success In Jean Jaurès' Daily La Petite République, And He Became Appointed Serial Writer For Le Matin From 1906 To His Death. His Already Well-Established Popularity Was Made Even Greater By His Promising Beginnings As A Film-Director In 1917. Some Of His Serials Have Not Yet Been Published. Zevaco's Novels, Including The Les Pardaillan Series, Were Translated Into Persian As Part Of The Great Interest In Historical Novels In Iran. The Publisher Was Gutenberg Publishers, A Joint Project Of The Famous Soviet Mir Publishing House And An Iranian Publisher. Among The Novels Translated Were The Les Pardaillan, Fausta The Female Pope, Nostradamus, Buridan, And Many Other Works. Leader Of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei Has Also Read Some Novels Of Zevaco And Recommended Them To The . In The 1960S, Many Of Zevaco's Historical Novels Were Translated To Hebrew And Published With Considerable Success. Zevaco Is Well Known In Turkey; His Most Important Books Have Been Translated And Published In Turkish. Many Of His Works Were Made Into Films.