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FEYDEAU , ERNEST-AIMS (1821–1873), See also:French author, was See also:born in See also:Paris, on the 16th of See also:March 1821. He began his See also:literary career in 1844, by the publication of a See also:volume of See also:poetry, See also:Les Nationales. Either the partial failure of this literary effort, or his See also:marriage soon afterwards to a daughter of the economist See also:Blanqui, caused him to devote himself to See also:finance and to See also:archaeology. He gained a See also:great success with his novel Fanny (1858), a success due chiefly to the cleverness with which it depicted and excused the corrupt See also:manners of a certain portion of French society. This was followed in rapid See also:succession by a See also:series of See also:fictions, similar in See also:character, but wanting the attraction of novelty; none of them enjoyed the same See also:vogue as Fanny. Besides his novels Feydeau wrote several plays, and he is also the author of Histoire generale See also:des usages funebres et des sepultures des peoples anciens (3 vols., 1857–1861); Le See also:Secret du See also:bonheur. (sketches of Algerian See also:life) (2 vols., 1864); and L'Allemagne en 1871 (1872), a See also:clever See also:caricature of See also:German life and manners. He died in Paris on the 27th of See also:October 1873.
See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. xiv., and See also:Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Euvres et les hommes au XIX' siecle.
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