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A French-Swiss novelist and critic; born at Nyon in 1857. He has published many works of criticism and erudition, among them being: "A propos de "L'Assommoir" (1879); "The Germans at Paris" (1880); and "Wagner and the German Aesthetic" (1886). But he is better known as a novelist, and has published: "The Fall of Miss Topsy" (1882); "The Deathward Career" (1885); "The Meaning of Life" (1889); "Stendhal" (1891); "The Sacrificed One" (1892); "A Victor" (1904).