David Coward

David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.

In the LRB Archive:

• Ten Billion Letters: Artilleur Pireaud writes home · 21 June 2007

  • Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna

• ‘Monocled Baron Charged’: Vichy’s commissioner for Jewish affairs · 8 June 2006

  • Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil

• To the Manure Born: an uncompromising champion of the French republic · 21 July 2005

  • Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean-Marie Déguignet, translated by Linda Asher

• Having Fun: Alexandre Dumas · 17 April 2003

  • Viva Garibaldi! Une Odyssée en 1860 by Alexandre Dumas

• Bon Garçon on La Fontaine’s fables · 7 February 2002

  • Complete Tales in Verse by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Guido Waldman
  • The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought down to Earth by Andrew Calder
  • The Craft of La Fontaine by Maya Slater

• Love is always young and happy on Molière · 5 April 2001

  • Molière: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott

• ‘Why,’ says Almaviva to Figaro, ‘is there always something louche about everything you do?’ on Beaumarchais · 26 November 1998

  • The Figaro Plays by Pierre de Beaumarchais, translated by John Wells

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