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FORTUNE DU BOISGOBEY (1824-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 154 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOISGOBEY (1824-1891)  ,
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French writer of fiction, whose real surname was Castille, was
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born at
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Granville (
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Manche) on the 11th of
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September 1824 . He served in the
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army pay
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department in
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Algeria from 1844 to 1848, and extended his travels to the
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East . He made his
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literary debut in the
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Petit
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journal with a
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story entitled Deux comediens (1868) . With Le For4at
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colonel (1872) he became one of the most popular
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feuilleton writers . His
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police stories, though not so convincing as those of Emile
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Gaboriau, with whom his name is generally associated, had a
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great circulation, and many of them have been translated into
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English . Among his stories may be mentioned:
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Les Mysteres du nouveau
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Paris (1876), Le Demi-Monde sous la Terreur (1877), Les Nuits de
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Constantinople (1882), Le Cri du sang (1885), La
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Main froide (1889) .
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Boisgobey died on the 26th of
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February 1891 .

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