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See also:BERNARD, See also:CHARLES DE , whose full name was See also:PIERRE See also:MARIE CHARLES DE BERNARD DU See also:GRAIL DE LA See also:VILLETTE (1804-185o), See also:French writer, was See also:born at See also:Besancon on the 25th of See also:February 1804. After studying for the See also:law, and then taking to journalism, he was encouraged by See also:Balzac (whose Peau de chagrin he had reviewed) to See also:settle in See also:Paris and devote himself to authorship; and the result was a See also:series of volumes of fiction, remarkable for their picture of provincial society and the Parisian bourgeoisie. The best of these are Le Nexud gordien (1838), containing among other See also:short stories Une Aventure de magistrat, from which See also:Sardou See also:drew his See also:comedy of the Pommes du voisin; Gerfaut (1838), considered his masterpiece; See also:Les Ailes d'Icare (184o), La Peau du See also:lion (1841) and Le Gentilhomtne campagnard
(1847).
His Euvres completes (12 vols.), which appeared after his See also:death on the 6th of See also:March 185o, include also his See also:poetry and two comedies written in collaboration with " Leonce " (C. H. L. Laurengot, 1805-1862). A flattering appreciation by Armand de See also:Pontmartin is prefixed to Un Beau-pere in this collection. In W. M. See also:Thackeray's Paris See also:Sketch-See also:book (" On some fashionable French novels ") there is an admirable See also:criticism of Bernard. See also an See also:essay by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James in French Poets and Novelists (1884).
End of Article: BERNARD, CHARLES DE
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