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Édouard Henri Georges Toudouze, né le 22 juin 1877 à Paris où il meurt le 4 janvier 1972, est un romancier, auteur dramatique, historien et journaliste français. Il a écrit sous les pseudonymes : Georges-Gustave Toudouze , Georges - G. Toudouze, ou Georges G.- Toudouze, dans Les Cahiers de l'Iroise , entre autres.
- Écrivain, historien, dramaturge, journaliste
- 22 juin 1877Paris 9e, France
- 4 janvier 1972 (à 94 ans)Paris 8e, France
- Édouard Henri Georges Toudouze
Gustave Toudouze, né le 19 mai 1847 à Paris et mort le 2 juillet 1904 dans la même ville, est un romancier, auteur dramatique et journaliste français. Il est le père de l'écrivain Georges-Gustave Toudouze.
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The plot involves three men tending a lighthouse on an island off the coast of French Guiana. The rock the lighthouse stands on is dubbed 'Three Skeleton Key', named after a tragedy when three convicts escaping from Cayenne became ship-wrecked on the rock and eventually died of hunger and thirst – the only thing left of them were a heap of bones cl...
This work first appeared in French in 1927 as "La tour d'épouvante", and was featured in Toudouze's 1946 short story collection Aux Feux tournants des Phares...: Récits de Mer et de Haute Mer with illustrations by P. Peron.The first English edition of "Three Skeleton Key" was in 1937 in Esquire.
James Poe adapted the story for radio in a version that aired on Escapeon November 15, 1949. Poe's script gave different names to the three characters: the narrator is named "Jean", the head keeper Itchoua is named "Louis" and Le Gleo is now a hunchbacked former actor named "Auguste"; the adaptation also provides a different and more chilling reaso...
Three Skeleton Key(full text)Escape to Three Skeleton Keyat One Act Virtual MuseumThree Skeleton Key title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseWorking name of French journalist, playwright and author Henry Georges Edouard Toudouze (1877-1972), many of his novels being for children.
Georges G.-Toudouze. 1 reference. date of birth. 22 June 1877 Gregorian. 6 references. place of birth. 9th arrondissement of Paris. 1 reference. date of death.
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Georges-Gustave Toudouze has 38 books on Goodreads with 109 ratings. Georges-Gustave Toudouze’s most popular book is The King of the Undersea City.
