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BEAUVOIR, ROGER DE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEAUVOIR, See also:ROGER DE , the nom de plume of See also:EUGENE AUGUSTE ROGER DE See also:BULLY (i8o6–r866), See also:French writer, who was See also:born on the 8th of See also:November 18o6 in See also:Paris. He was the son and See also:nephew of public officials who did not approve his See also:literary inclinations, and it was at their See also:request that he wrote over the See also:signature of Roger de Beauvoir. A See also:good-looking See also:young See also:fellow, of See also:independent means, an indefatigable viveur, he astonished all Paris with his ostentatious luxury and his adventures, while his romantic novels gave him a more serious if not durable reputation. Among the best of them are L'Ecolier de See also:Cluny ou le Sophisme (1832), which is said to have furnished See also:Alexandre See also:Dumas and See also:Theodore Gaillardet (1808–1882) with the See also:idea of the Tour de See also:Nesle, and Le See also:Chevalier de See also:Saint Georges (1840). He had married in 1847 an actress, Eleonore Leocadie Doze (1822–18J9), from whom he obtained a judicial separation a See also:year or two later after a See also:long and notorious trial, following which his See also:mother-in-See also:law got him impriscned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Proses (1849). Ruined by extravagance and tied to his See also:chair by See also:gout, he spent the last years of his See also:life in retirement, and died in Paris on the 27th of See also:August 1866.

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