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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
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HENRI CORENTIN FEVAL (1817–1887)
  , French novelist and dramatist, was born on the 27th of September 1817, at
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Rennes in
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Brittany, and much of his best
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work deals with the
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history of his native province . He was educated for the bar, but after his first brief he went to Paris, where he gained a footing by the publication of his " Club
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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 England, was published under the ingenious pseudonym "
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Sir Francis Trolopp." Others of his novels are: Le Fils du diable (1846) ;
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Les Compagnons du silence (1857); Le Bossu (1858); Le Poisson d'or (1863); Les Habits noirs (1863);
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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 Sardou for a collaborator, being especially successful in dramatic form . His chronicles of crime exercised an evil influence, eventually recognized by the author himself . In his later years he became an ardent Catholic, and occupied himself in revising his earlier
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works from his new standpoint and in writing religious
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pamphlets . Reverses of fortune and consequent overwork undermined his
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mental and bodily
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health, and he died of paralysis in the monastery of the Brothers of Saint John in Paris on the 8th of March 1887 . His son, PAUL 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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