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PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES.
45

MAX O'RELL.

Born 1848.

Age 13.
From a Photograph.
Age 21.
From a Photograph.
Age 17.
From a Photo. by Sée, Strasburg.
Present day.
From a Photo. by Martin & Sallnow.


P AUL BLOUËT ("Max O'Rell") was born in Brittany, and received his commission in the French cavalry at the age of 21. Having been severely wounded, he retired with a pension, and came to England. In 1882, while master at St. Paul's School, he published the enormously successful "John Bull and His Island." Max O'Rell married an English lady, who translates all his books into English, and who is herself—as the reader may judge for himself by the following story—a charming writer.