Jean Lombard (26 September 1854 – 17 July 1891) was a French novelist of the late nineteenth century. Lombard was born in

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. His work, with its themes of

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and

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, had deep affiliations with the

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in literature. Although almost completely forgotten today, he influenced contemporaries such as

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and

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. His best-known work, based on the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, i

(1888); the 1902 reprint included a preface by

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and illustrations by

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. According to William Sharp, Lombard died in 1891 in poverty, bordering on starvation.

References

Sharp, William. ''Studies and Appreciations''. Duffield & Company, 1912.

External links

Works by Jean Lombard at the Bibliothèque Nationale
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lombard, Jean 1854 births 1891 deaths Writers from Toulon 19th-century French novelists French male novelists 19th-century French male writers