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Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly ( November 2, 1808 - April 23, 1889), was a French novelist.He was born at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte ( Manche). In the 1850s, d'Aurevilly became literary critic of the Pays. Paul Bourget describes him as a dreamer with an exquisite sense of vision, who sought and found in his work a refuge from the uncongenial world of every day. Jules 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.
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly died in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse. In 1926 his remains were transferred to St. Sauveur, le vicomte's cemetery, in Normandy.
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- Une Vieille Maîtresse (An Old Mistress) ( 1851Events January 23 The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. March 1 Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United State), attacked at the time of its publication on the charge of immorality
- L'Ensorcelée (The Bewitched) ( 1854Events January 13 The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. February 11 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. February 14 Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas i), an episode of the royalist rising among the Norman peasants against the first republic
- Chevalier Destouches ( 1864Events January March January 21 Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign starts. February 27 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. March 1- Alejandro Mon Menendez takes office as Prime Minist)
- Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) ( 1874Events January 1 New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. January Signing of the Pangkor Tr), a collection of short storiesThe short story is a form of narrative prose writing that is characterised by the number of words contained therein. Determining the actual length of a short story is problematic. A classic definition of a short story's length is that it must be able to b, each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits acts of violence, crime, or revenge.
Barbey d'Aurevilly is an extreme example of the eccentricities of which the RomanticistsRomanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. It followed the were capable, and to read him is to understand the discredit that fell upon the manner. He held extreme CatholicGeneral meaning Catholic means universal or whole''. With respect to the Christian Church, the early Christians used the term to refer to the whole undivided church. It is in that sense that all Christians today claim ownership of the term, including Prot views and wrote on the most risqué subjects; he gave himself aristocratic airs and hinted at a mysterious past, though his parentage was entirely bourgeois and his youth very hum-drum and innocent.
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Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée
