Ernest-Aimé Feydeau (; 16 March 182127 October 1873) was a French writer and the father of the noted comic playwright

Georges Feydeau Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parent ...

Biography

Feydeau was born in Paris, and he began his literary career in 1844, by the publication of a volume of poetry, ''Les Nationales''. Either the partial failure of this literary effort, or his marriage soon afterwards to a daughter of the economist,

Blanqui Louis Auguste Blanqui (; 8 February 1805 – 1 January 1881) was a French socialist and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism. Biography Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805–1848) Bla ...

, caused him to devote himself to finance and to

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. He gained a great success with his novel ''Fanny'' (1858), a success due chiefly to the cleverness with which it depicted and excused the corrupt manners of a certain portion of French society. In 1861 he married Léocadie Bogaslawa, ''née'' Zelewska (1838–1924). This was followed in rapid succession by a series of fictions, similar in character, but wanting the attraction of novelty; none of them enjoyed the same vogue as ''Fanny''. Besides his novels Feydeau wrote several plays, and he is also the author of ''Histoire générale des usages funèbres et des sépultures des peuples anciens'' (3 vols., 1857–1861); ''Le Secret du bonheur'' (sketches of Algerian life) (2 vols., 1864); and ''L'Allemagne en 1871'' (1872), a clever caricature of German life and manners. He died in Paris.

References

Sainte-Beuve Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic. Early life He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he se ...

, ''English Portraits'' (New York, 1875) and ''Essays on Men and Women'' (London, 1890) (in French ''Causeries du lundi'', vol. xiv.) *

Barbey d'Aurevilly Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anythin ...

, ''Les Oeuvres et les hommes au XIXe siècle'' (''19th Century Works and Men'').

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