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BARBEY

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, JULES AMEDEE (1808-1889), French man of letters, was born at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Manche) on the 2nd of November 18o8. His most famous novels are Une Vieille Maitresse (1851), attacked at the time of its publication on the charge of immorality; L'Ensorcelee (1854), an episode of the royalist rising among the Norman peasants against the first republic; the Chevalier
Destouches
  (1864); and a collection of extraordinary stories entitled Les Diaboliques (1874). Barbey d'Aurevilly is an extreme example of- the eccentricities of which the Romanticists were capable, and to read him is to understand the discredit that fell upon the manner. He held extreme Catholic views and wrote on the most risque subjects; he gave himself aristocratic airs and hinted at a mysterious past, though his parentage was entirely
bourgeois
  and his youth very hum-drum and innocent. In the 'fifties d'Aurevilly became literary critic of the Pays, and a number of his essays, contributed to this and other
journals
 , were collected as Les Euvres et les hommes du XIXe siecle (18611865). Other literary studies are Les Romanciers (1866) and Goethe et
Diderot
  (188o). He died in Paris on the 23rd of
April
  1889. Paul Bourget describes him as a dreamer with an exquisite sense of vision, who sought and found in his
work
  'a
refuge
  from the
uncongenial world of every day. Jules Lemaitre, a less sympathetic critic, finds in the extraordinary crimes of his heroes and heroines, his reactionary views, his dandyism and snobbery, an exaggerated Byronism.
See also Alcide Dusolier, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1862), a collection of eulogies and interviews; Paul Bourget,
Preface
  to d'Aurevilly's Memoranda (1883); Jules Lemaitre, Les Contemporains;
Eugene
  Grele, Barbey d'Aurevilly, sa vie et son oeuvre (1902) ; Rene
Doumic
 , in the Revue des deux mondes (Sept. 1902).


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