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BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, JULES AMEDEE (1808-1889), See also:

French See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (See also:Manche) on the 2nd of See also:November 18o8. His most famous novels are Une Vieille Maitresse (1851), attacked at the See also:time of its publication on the See also:charge of immorality; L'Ensorcelee (1854), an See also:episode of the royalist rising among the See also:Norman peasants against the first See also:republic; the See also:Chevalier See also:Destouches (1864); and a collection of extraordinary stories entitled See also:Les Diaboliques (1874). Barbey d'Aurevilly is an extreme example of- the eccentricities of which the Romanticists were capable, and to read him is to understand the discredit that See also:fell upon the manner. He held extreme See also:Catholic views and wrote on the most risque subjects; he gave himself aristocratic airs and hinted at a mysterious past, though his parentage was entirely See also:bourgeois and his youth very hum-See also:drum and See also:innocent. In the 'fifties d'Aurevilly became See also:literary critic of the Pays, and a number of his essays, contributed to this and other See also:journals, were collected as Les Euvres et les hommes du XIXe siecle (1861–1865). Other literary studies are Les Romanciers (1866) and See also:Goethe et See also:Diderot (188o). He died in See also:Paris on the 23rd of See also:April 1889. See also:Paul See also:Bourget describes him as a dreamer with an exquisite sense of See also:vision, who sought and found in his See also:work 'a See also:refuge from the uncongenial See also:world of every See also:day. Jules See also:Lemaitre, a less sympathetic critic, finds in the extraordinary crimes of his heroes and heroines, his reactionary views, his dandyism and snobbery, an exaggerated Byronism. See also Alcide Dusolier, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1862), a collection of eulogies and interviews; Paul Bourget, See also:Preface to d'Aurevilly's Memoranda (1883); Jules Lemaitre, Les Contemporains; See also:Eugene Grele, Barbey d'Aurevilly, sa See also:vie et son oeuvre (1902) ; Rene See also:Doumic, in the Revue See also:des deux mondes (See also:Sept. 1902).

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