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PAUL ADAM (1862– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 172 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL See also:ADAM (1862– )  , See also:French novelist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:December 1862 . He was prosecuted for his first novel, See also:Chair molle (1885), but was acquitted . He collaborated with See also:Jean See also:Moreas in Le the chez See also:Miranda (1886), and with Moreas and Gustave See also:Kahn he founded the Symboliste, coming forward as one of the earliest defenders of symbolism . Among his numerous novels should be noted Le mystere See also:des joules (2 vols., 1895), a study in Boulangism, Lettres de Malaisie (1897), a fantastic See also:romance of imaginary future politics . In 1899 he began a novel-sequence, giving the See also:history of the See also:Napoleonic See also:campaigns, the restoration and the See also:government of See also:Louis Philippe, comprising La force (1899), L'enfant d'See also:Austerlitz (1901), La ruse (1902), and Au soleil de Juillet (1903) . In 1900 he wrote a See also:Byzantine romance, Basile et See also:Sophia .

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