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PAUL HENRI CORENTIN FEVAL (1817–1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL See also:HENRI CORENTIN See also:FEVAL (1817–1887)  , See also:French novelist and dramatist, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:September 1817, at See also:Rennes in See also:Brittany, and much of his best See also:work deals with the See also:history of his native See also:province . He was educated for the See also:bar, but after his first brief he went to See also:Paris, where he gained a footing by the publication of his " See also:Club See also:des phoques " (1841) in the Revue de Paris . The Mysteres de Londres (1844), in which an Irishman tries to avenge the wrongs of his countrymen by seeking the annihilation of See also:England, was published under the ingenious See also:pseudonym " See also:Sir See also:Francis Trolopp." Others of his novels are: Le Fils du diable (1846) ; See also:Les Compagnons du silence (1857); Le See also:Bossu (1858); Le See also:Poisson d'or (1863); Les Habits noirs (1863); See also:Jean le diable (1868), and Les Compagnons du tresor (1872) . Some of his novels were dramatized, Le Bossu (1863), in which he had M . Victorien See also:Sardou for a collaborator, being especially successful in dramatic See also:form . His See also:chronicles of See also:crime exercised an evil See also:influence, eventually recognized by the author himself . In his later years he became an ardent See also:Catholic, and occupied himself in revising his earlier See also:works from his new standpoint and in See also:writing religious See also:pamphlets . Reverses of See also:fortune and consequent overwork undermined his See also:mental and bodily See also:health, and he died of See also:paralysis in the monastery of the See also:Brothers of See also:Saint See also:John in Paris on the 8th of See also:March 1887 . His son, See also:PAUL See also:FEVAL (186o- ), became well known as a novelist and dramatist . Among his works are Nouvelles (189o), Maria Laura (1891), and Chantepie (1896) .

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