1853 Stowe, La Cabane de l'Oncle Tom.

First French illustrated edition. 
Second edition of the translation by Léon de Wailly and Edmond Texier, first published in 1852. The very first French translation had been given by Émile La Bédollière at Barba in November 1852 (Vicaire I, 379).

The daughter of a reverend evangelist, the wife of a reverend evangelist, Calvin Stowe, who was a colleague of her father, raised and living in an atmosphere of religious rigorism, Harriet Beecher is known as the author of a best-seller, whose immediate, smashing impact was extended throughout the world in the form of multiple adaptations; Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), an anti-slavery novel that reinforced the abolitionist campaign shortly before the Civil War. Most critics agree on the book's main flaws: coincidences, inconsistencies, melodramatic overload, moralistic perspective. On the other hand, these same critics differ in their assessment of the author's portrayal of slavery and the lives of slaves on the plantation. It is certain that Harriet Beecher-Stowe's first-hand documentation was extremely limited, and her presentation of the "peculiar institution" (as slavery was modestly called) too uncorrosive to worry the Southerners, at least when the story was published. But beyond the criticisms, the real problem remains that posed by the infatuation encountered by this book, whether not only in the northern United States, but also in Europe as a whole, where George Sand and Musset, to name but two, immediately cried genius.