Mme Emile de Girardin was the author of La Canne De M De Balzac, and together with Théophile Gautier, Jules Sandeau and Mery, she wrote this title. Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority of his life was spent as a contributor to various journals, mainly for La Presse. His many travels inspired many of his writings including Voyage en Espagne, Trésors d'Art de la Russie, and Voyage en Russie. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert and Oscar Wilde. Leonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau, was a French novelist. The famous play, Le Gendre de M. Poirier, is one of several which he wrote in collaboration with Émile Augier. Sandeau had been made conservateur of the Mazarin library in 1853, elected to the Académie française in 1858, and appointed librarian of St Cloud in 1859. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.