Victor Ratier


Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier was a 19th-century French playwright, lithographer and printer.

Biography

The son of a librarian in the Conseil d'État, a teacher of English in the high school of Bourges, he abandoned this business, became a journalist at the Journal du Cher, then a lithographer and printer, patented in Paris February 14, 1829 in succession to Pierre-François Ducarme. In 1829 he founded with the lithographer printer Sylvestre Nicolas Durier the illustrated periodical .
We owe him numerous lithographs and engravings for theatrical publications and magazines such as Album pour rire or Miroir des dames, and many poster prints. He was also the printer and translator of English language novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe or Evangeline by Henry Longfellow.
By his profession, letters were addressed to him by important personalities like Honoré de Balzac who was a friend.
His plays, including some written under the pseudonym Victor Benoît were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre du Panthéon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique etc.

Works