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-	'''Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly''' ([[November 2]], [[1808]] – [[April 23]], [[1889]]), was a [[French literature|French novelist]] and [[short story]] writer. He specialised in a kind of [[Mystery (fiction)|mysterious tale]] that examines [[hidden agenda|hidden motivation]] and [[Insinuation|hinted]] [[evil]] bordering (but never crossing into) the [[Supernatural Horror in Literature|supernatural]]. He had a decisive influence on writers such as [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]], [[Henry James]] and [[Proust]]. His best-known collection is ''[[Les Diaboliques (book)|The She-Devils]]'', which includes the cult classic ''[[Happiness in Crime]]''. Most recently his ''[[Une vieille maîtresse]]'' (''An Elderly Mistress'', 1851) was adapted to [[Film|cinema]] by French Jahsonic favorite director [[Catherine Breillat]]: its English title is ''[[The Last Mistress]]''.	+
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-	He is variously lumped in with the Late [[French Romantics]], [[The Decadents]], [[Symbolists]] and is included in the [[Genealogy of the Cruel Tale]] and considered a practitioner of the [[Fantastique]].	+
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-	== Praise and criticism ==	+
-	[[Paul Charles Joseph Bourget|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 the every day. [[Jules Lemaître]], a less sympathetic critic, finds in the extraordinary [[crime]]s of his heroes and heroines, in his [[reactionary]] views, his [[dandyism]] and snobbery, an exaggerated [[Lord Byron|Byronism]].	+
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-	Beloved of [[fin-de-siècle]] decadents, Barbey d'Aurevilly is a classic example of the manner of which the [[romanticism|Romanticists]] were capable and to read him is to understand the discredit that fell upon that manner among the later Victorians. He held extreme [[Catholic]] views, yet wrote on the most [[risqué]] subjects (an apparent conflict more troubling to the English than to the French; [[Voltaire|''Voltairiennisme'']] would have been something else) he gave himself aristocratic airs and hinted at a mysterious past, though his parentage was entirely respectable and his youth humdrum and innocent.	+
-	===Fantastique===	+
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-	* [[Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly]] wrote [[tales of terror]] in which [[morbid]] passions are acted out in [[bizarre]] crimes, such as ''[[Les Diaboliques]]'' [The Diabolical Women] (written in 1858, published in 1874, no relation to the film). Also of note is ''[[L'Ensorcelé]]''.	+
-	===Symbolists===	+
-	Other fiction that is sometimes considered Symbolist is the cynical misanthropic (and especially, misogynistic) tales of [[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly]].	+
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-	==Biography==	+
-	He was born at [[Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte]] ([[Manche]]) in [[Normandy]]. In the [[1850s]], Barbey d'Aurevilly became literary critic of ''Le Pays''.	+
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-	Inspired by the character and ambience of [[Valognes]], he set his works against the social pattern of the aristocracy of Normandy. Although he himself did not write in [[Norman language|Norman]], he encouraged the revival of [[vernacular literature]] in his home region.	+
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-	Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly died in [[Paris]] and was interred in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]]. In 1926 his remains were transferred to Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte's cemetery.	+
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-	==Selected works==	+
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-	*''[[Une vieille maîtresse]]'' (''An Elderly Mistress'', [[1851]]), attacked at the time of its publication on the charge of ''[[immorality]]''.	+
-	*''L'Ensorcelée'' (''The Bewitched'', [[1854]]), an episode of the royalist rising among the Norman peasants against the first republic.	+
-	*''Chevalier Destouches'' ([[1864]])	+
-	*''[[Les Diaboliques (book)|Les Diaboliques]]'' (''The She-Devils'', [[1874]]), a collection of [[short story|short stories]], each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits an act of violence, a crime, or revenge.	+
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-	His complete works are published in two volumes of the ''[[Bibliothèque de la Pléiade]]''.	+
-	==Works==	+
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-	*''Une vieille maîtresse'' (''An Elderly Mistress'', 1851), attacked at the time of its publication on the charge of ''immorality''; it was adapted to [[Film|cinéma]] by the controversial director [[Catherine Breillat]]: its English title is [[The Last Mistress]].	+
-	*''[[L'Ensorcelée]]'' (''[[The Bewitched]]'', 1854), an episode of the royalist rising among the Norman peasants against the first republic.	+
-	*''Chevalier Destouches'' 1864	+
-	*''[[Les Diaboliques]]'' (''The She-Devils'') 1874, a collection of [[short story|short stories]], each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits an act of violence, a crime, or revenge.	+
-	* ''Le Cachet d’Onyx'' 1831	+
-	* ''Léa'' 1832	+
-	* ''L’Amour impossible'' 1841	+
-	* ''La Bague d’Annibal'' 1842	+
-	* ''Un Prêtre marié'' 1864	+
-	* ''Une Histoire sans nom'' 1882	+
-	* ''Ce qui ne meurt pas'' 1883	+
-	* ''Du Dandysme et de Georges Brummel'' 1845	+
-	* ''Les Prophètes du passé'' 1851	+
-	* ''Les Oeuvres et les hommes'' 1860-1909	+
-	* ''Les quarante médaillons de l'Académie'' 1864	+
-	* ''Les ridicules du temps'' 1883	+
-	* ''Pensées détachées'', Fragments sur les femmes'' 1889	+
-	* ''Polémiques d'hier'' 1889	+
-	* ''Dernières Polémiques'' 1891	+
-	* ''Goethe et Diderot'' 1913	+
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-	His complete works are published in two volumes of the ''[[Bibliothèque de la Pléiade]]''.	+
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-	== Happiness in Crime ==	+
-	*[[Le Bonheur dans le crime]]	+
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