Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Novelist, Author
1808 – 1889
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Who was Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly?
Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James and Marcel Proust.
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1808
Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte - Also known as
- Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Barbey d'Aureville
- Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Lower Normandy
- Died
- Apr 23, 1889
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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