CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR (1829-1899)

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CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR (1829-1899) , French novelist and miscellaneous writer, was born on the 19th of July 1829, at Geneva, where his father, Andre Cherbuliez (1795-1874), was a classical professor at the university. He was descended from a family of

Protestant

PROTESTANT

refugees, and many years later

Victor

VICTOR
VICTOR, GAIUS
JULIUS
- JULIUS
(4th cent. A.D.)
VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Cherbuliez resumed his French nationality, taking advantage of an act passed in the early days of the Revolution. Geneva was the scene of his early education; thence he proceeded to Paris, and afterwards to the universities of

Bonn

BONN

and Berlin. He 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

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

(1881), and having received the Legion of Honour in 187o, he was promoted to be officer of the order in 1892. He died on the 1st of July 1899. Cherbuliez was a voluminous and successful writer of fiction. His first book, originally published in 186o, reappeared in 1864 under the title of Un Cheval de Phidias: it is a romantic study of art in the golden age of Athens. He went on to produce a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of novels, of which the following are the best known: Le Comte Kostia (1863), Le Prince Vitale (1864), Le Roman d'une honne"te femme (1866), L'Aventure de Ladislas Bolski (1869), Miss Ravel (1875), Samuel Broil et Cie (1877), L'Idee de

Jean

JEAN

Teterol (1878), Noirs et rouges (1881), La Vocation du Comte Ghislain (1888), Une Gageure (189o), Le

Secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

du precepteur (1893), Jacquine Vanesse (1898), &c. 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 (187o), L'Espagne politique (1874), .Profits strangers (1889), L'Art et la nature (1892), &c. The volume Etudes de litterature et d'art (1873) includes articles for the most

part

PART

reprinted from Le Temps. The earlier novels of Cherbuliez have been said with truth to show marked traces of the influence of George Sand; and in spite of modification, his method was that of an older school. He did not possess the sombre power or the intensely analytical skill of some of his later contemporaries, but his books are distinguished by a freshness and honesty, fortified by cosmopolitan knowledge and lightened by unobtrusive humour, which fully account for their wide popularity in many countries besides his own. His genius was the

reverse

REVERSE

of dramatic, and attempts to present two of his stories on the stage have not succeeded. His essays have all the merits due to liberal observation and thoroughness of treatment; their style, like that of the novels, is admirably lucid and correct. (C.)

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