Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
“The most beautiful destiny: to have genius and be obscure.”
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Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Léon Bloy, Marcel Proust and Carmelo Bene.
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culture · French writer (1808–1889) · journalist · essayist · novelist · poet · literary critic · writer · historian · opinion journalist · also Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Barbey d’Aurévilly, d'Aurevilly
Born 2 November 1808 · Died 23 April 1889 · Q314963
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2026· 9 entries
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
“The Orient and Greece recall to my mind the saying, so coloured and melancholic, of Richter: 'Blue is the colour of mourning in the Orient. That is why the sky of Greece is so beautiful'.”
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“Men give their measure by their admiration, and it is by their judgements that one may judge them.”
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“Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.”
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“The mortal envelope of the Middle Age has disappeared, but the essential remains. Because the temporal disguise has fallen, the dupes of history and of its dates say that the Middle Age is dead. Does one die for changing his shirt?”
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“In France everybody is an aristocrat, for everybody aims to be distinguished from everybody. The red cap of the Jacobins is the red heel of the aristocrats at the other extremity, but it is the same distinctive sign. Only, as they hated each other, Jacobinism placed on its head what aristocracy placed under its foot.”
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“In the matter of literary form it is the thing poured in the vase which makes the beauty of the vase, otherwise there is nothing more than a vessel.”
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“Books must be set against books, as poisons against poisons.”
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“When superior men are mistaken they are superior in that as in all else. They see more falsely than small or mediocre minds.”
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2016· 1 entry
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
ActuaLitté: Philippe Berthier, Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
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2005· 1 entry
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
ActuaLitté: Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, Marc Robert, Elsa Marpeau
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1889· 1 entry
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Died 1889-04-23.
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1829· 1 entry
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Went to Caen University to study law, taking his degree three years later
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1827· 1 entry
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Went to the Collège Stanislas de Paris
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1808· 1 entry
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Born 1808-11-02.
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