Charles Didier (15 September 1805 – 7 March 1864) was a Swiss writer, poet and traveller. Charles Didier followed classic studies in Geneva, where he published two collections of poems, ''La Harpe helvétique'' (1825) and ''Mélodies helvétiques'' (1825). In 1827, attracted by the myth of Italy, he decided to undertake a trip to the peninsula, where he went as a tutor. In 1829 his travels took him to Sicily. On his return from Italy in 1830, he moved to Paris, where he became for a few years,

George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...

's lover,«Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant, dite George Sand»
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Encyclopédie Larousse ''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...

online "ill-married" and divorced from

Casimir Dudevant François Casimir Dudevant (6 July 1795 – 8 March 1871) was the illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant (1754–1826), a French military officer, and his mistress Augustine Soulé. On 10 December 1822, Dudevant married Aurore Dupin, ...

, along with and the actor

Bocage Bocage (, ) is a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture characteristic of parts of Northern France, Southern England, Ireland, the Netherlands and Northern Germany, in regions where pastoral farming is the dominant land use. ''Bocage'' may als ...

. Didier's article, however, failed to arouse wide interest among the French public, just as a short and dense article by a certain Theil, which appeared in 1837 in the newspaper La Paix, in which the author, "had spoken about Leopardi wonderfully, but before a distracted audience and in a place that was too unliterary," failed to do so six years later. Prevented by impending blindness, to take the road to the East, Charles Didier ended his life by committing suicide March 7, 1864 in Paris after long suffering.

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;Poetry *1825: ''La Harpe helvétique'' *1825: ''Mélodies helvétiques'' ;Novels *1833: ''Rome souterraine'' *1838: ''Chavornay'' *1844–45 ''Caroline en Sicile'' *1859: ''Les amours d'Italie'' ;Travels *1837: ''Une année en Espagne'' *1842: ''Campagne de Rome'' *1844: ''Promenade au Maroc'' *1856: ''Cinq cents lieues sur le Nil'' He also wrote reports for the '' Revue encyclopédique'' and the ''

Revue des deux Mondes The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829. According to its website, "it is today the place for debates a ...

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