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A French critic and novelist; born at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche, Nov. 2, 1808; died in Paris, April 24, 1889. As a contributor to the Pays in Paris, where he settled in 1851, he created a sensation by the unreserved tone and peculiar style of his literary criticisms; in 1858 he founded the Reveil with Granier de Cassagnac and Escudier. Works: "On Dandyism and G. Brummel" (1845); "The Prophets of the Past" (1851); "Goethe and Diderot" (1880); "Polemics of Yesterday" (1889); "Nineteenth Century: The Works and the Men" (1861-92). Of his novels the best are: "The Bewitched" (1854); and "The Chevalier des Touches" (1864).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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