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GEORGES OHNET (1848– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 35 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OHNET (1848– )  , See also:French novelist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:April 1848 . After the See also:war of 1870 he became editor of the Pays and the Constitutionnel in See also:succession . In collaboration with the engineer and dramatist See also:Louis Denayrouze (b . 1848) he produced the See also:play See also:Regina See also:Sarpi, and in 1877 See also:Marche . He was an admirer of Georges See also:Sand and bitterly opposed to the realistic See also:modern novel . He began a See also:series of novels, See also:Les Batailles de la See also:vie, of a See also:simple and idealistic See also:character, which, although attacked by the critics as unreal and See also:commonplace, were very popular . The series included Serge Panine (1881) which was crowned by the See also:Academy; Le Maitre de forges (1882), La Grande Marniere (1885), Volonte (x888), Dernier amour (1891) . Many of his novels have been dramatized with See also:great success, Le Maitre de forges, produced at the Gymnase in 1883, holding the See also:stage for a whole See also:year . His later publications include Le Crepuscule (1902), Le Marchand de poisons (1903), La Conquerante (1905), La Dixihme Muse (1906) .

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