📕 CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMYAntoine Gustave Droz was a French man of letters, and the son of sculptor J.A. Droz. He was educated as an painter at L'École des Beaux Arts, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857. He turned from painting to writing, and began contributing under the name Gustave Z. . . . to La Vie Parisienne. His articles were very popular, and he demonstrated talent as raconteur, observer, and analyst of day to day life.