Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (November 2, 1808 – April 23, 1889), was a French novelist. November 2 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Events January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned February 11 - Russia issues an ultimatum to France, Finland. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a 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 Lemaître, a less sympathetic critic, finds in the extraordinary crimes of his heroes and heroines, his reactionary views, his dandyism and snobbery, an exaggerated Byronism. Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is a small rural town in lower Normandy, a north western region of France. ... Manche is a French département in Normandy named after La Manche (the sleeve), which is the French name of the English Channel. ... Events and Trends Crimean war (1854 - 1856) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. ... Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (September 2, 1852–December 25, 1935), was a French novelist and critic. ... François Elie Jules Lemaître ( April 27, 1853 - August 4, 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. ... Sporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a girdle was required to achieve this silhouette. ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ...

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. The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. ... Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is a small rural town in lower Normandy, a north western region of France. ... Mont Saint Michel is a historic pilgrimage site and a symbol of Normandy Normandy is a former country (a Duchy) situated in northern France occupying the lower Seine area (upper or Haute-Normandie) and the region to the west (lower or Basse-Normandie) as far as the Cotentin Peninsula. ...

Works

• Une Vieille Maîtresse (An Old Mistress) (1851), attacked at the time of its publication on the charge of immorality
• L'Ensorcelée (The Bewitched) (1854), an episode of the royalist rising among the Norman peasants against the first republic
• Chevalier Destouches (1864)
• Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) (1874), a collection of short stories, 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 Romanticists were capable, and to read him is to understand the discredit that fell upon the manner. He held extreme Catholic 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. Events 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. ... Events January 13 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Events January - April January 1 - New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... Catholic is a term generally used in relation to the members, beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

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