- EFFEN, VAN
- a Dutch author, who wrote chiefly in French; imitated the Spectator of Addison, and translated into French Swift's "Tale of a Tub" and Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (1684-1735).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
EFFEN, VAN
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