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See also:CHERBULIEZ, See also:CHARLES See also:VICTOR (1829-1899) , See also:French novelist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:July 1829, at See also:Geneva, where his See also:father, See also:Andre Cherbuliez (1795-1874), was a classical See also:professor at the university. He was descended from a See also:family of See also:Protestant refugees, and many years later Victor Cherbuliez resumed his French See also:nationality, taking See also:advantage of an See also:act passed in the See also:early days of the Revolution. Geneva was the See also:scene of his early See also:education; thence he proceeded to See also:Paris, and afterwards to the See also:universities of See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin. He returned to his native See also:town and engaged in the profession of teaching. After his resumption of French citizenship he was elected a member of the See also:Academy (1881), and having received the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 187o, he was promoted to be officer of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in 1892. He died on the 1st of July 1899. Cherbuliez was a voluminous and successful writer of fiction. His first See also:book, originally published in 186o, reappeared in 1864 under the See also:title of Un Cheval de Phidias: it is a romantic study of See also:art in the See also:golden See also:age of See also:Athens. He went on to produce a See also:series of novels, of which the following are the best known: Le See also:Comte Kostia (1863), Le See also:Prince Vitale (1864), Le See also:Roman d'une honne"te femme (1866), L'Aventure de Ladislas Bolski (1869), See also:Miss Ravel (1875), See also:Samuel Broil et Cie (1877), L'Idee de See also:Jean Teterol (1878), Noirs et rouges (1881), La Vocation du Comte Ghislain (1888), Une Gageure (189o), Le See also:Secret du precepteur (1893), Jacquine Vanesse (1898), &c. Most of these novels first appeared in the Revue See also:des deux mondes, to which Cherbuliez also contributed a number of See also:political and learned articles, usually printed with the See also:pseudonym G. Valbert. Many of these have been published in collected See also:form under the titles L'Allemagne politique (187o), L'Espagne politique (1874), .Profits strangers (1889), L'Art et la nature (1892), &c. The See also:volume Etudes de litterature et d'art (1873) includes articles for the most See also:part reprinted from Le Temps. The earlier novels of Cherbuliez have been said with truth to show marked traces of the See also:influence of See also:George See also:Sand; and in spite of modification, his method was that of an older school. He did not possess the sombre See also:power or the intensely See also:analytical skill of some of his later contemporaries, but his books are distinguished by a freshness and honesty, fortified by See also:cosmopolitan knowledge and lightened by unobtrusive See also:humour, which fully See also:account for their wide popularity in many countries besides his own. His See also:genius was the See also:reverse of dramatic, and attempts to See also:present two of his stories on the See also:stage have not succeeded. His essays have all the merits due to liberal observation and thoroughness of treatment; their See also:style, like that of the novels, is admirably lucid and correct.
End of Article: CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR (1829-1899)
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