Charles Victor Cherbuliez (; 19 July 1829 – 1 or 2 July 1899)Victor Cherbuliez
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. was a Swiss, and then (1879) French novelist and author. He was born at

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, Switzerland and died at Combs-la-Ville. He was the eleventh member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1881.

Biography

Cherbuliez was born at Geneva, where his father, André Cherbuliez (1795–1874), was a classical professor at the Université de Genève. He was descended from a family of

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refugees, and many years later Victor Cherbuliez resumed his French nationality, taking advantage of an act passed in the early days of the

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. Geneva was the scene of his early education; thence he proceeded to Paris, and afterwards to the universities of

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and

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. Cherbuliez returned to his native town and engaged in the profession of teaching. After his resumption of French citizenship he was elected a member of the Académie française (1881), and having received the

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in 1870, he was promoted to be officer of the order in 1892.

Work

Cherbuliez was a voluminous and successful writer of fiction. His first book, originally published in 1860, reappeared in 1864 under the title of ''Un Cheval de Phidias'': it is a romantic study of art in the golden age of

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. He went on to produce a series of novels. Most of these novels first appeared in the '' Revue des deux mondes'', to which Cherbuliez also contributed a number of political and learned articles, usually printed with the pseudonym G Valbert. Many of these have been published in collected form under the titles ''L'Allemagne politique'' (1870), ''L'Espagne politique'' (1874), ''Profils étrangers'' (1889), ''L'Art et la nature'' (1892), etc. The volume ''Etudes de littérature et d'art'' (1873) includes articles for the most part reprinted from ''Le Temps''.

Assessment

According to

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in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition:

Bibliography

*''Le Comte Kostia'' (1863) *''Le Prince Vitale'' (1864) *''Le roman d'une honnête femme'' (1866) *''L'aventure de Ladislas Bolski'' (1869) *''Miss Rovel'' (1875) *''Samuel Brohl et Cie'' (1877) *''L'idée de Jean Téterol'' (1878) *''Noirs et rouges'' (1881) *''La vocation du comte Ghislain'' (1888) *''Une gageure'' (1890) *''Le Secret du précepteur'' (1893) *''Jacquine Vanesse'' (1898)

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