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PETRUS See also:BOREL , whose full name was See also:PIERRE See also:JOSEPH See also:BOREL D'HAUTERIVE (1809-1859), See also:French writer, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 26th of See also:June ISo9 . His See also:father had been ruined by taking See also:part in the resistance offered by the Lyonnese royalists against the See also:Convention, and Petrus Borel was educated in See also:Paris to be an architect . He soon abandoned his professionto become one of the most violent partisans of the Romantic See also:movement . His extravagant sentiments were illustrated in various volumes: Rhapsodies (1832), poems; Champavert, contes immoraux (1833); Madame Putiphar (1839), &c . His See also:works did not See also:rescue him from poverty, but through the kindness of See also:Theophile See also:Gautier and Mme de See also:Girardin he obtained a small See also:place in the See also:civil service . He died at See also:Mostaganem in See also:Algeria on the 14th of See also:July 1859 . See Jules See also:Claretie, Petrus Borel, le Lycanthrope (1865) ; and Ch . Asselineau, Bibliographie romantique (1872) . |
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