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A French novelist; born at Bedarieux, Herault; in 1830; died at Paris, Feb. 11, 1898. He published "Ivy Leaves", poems (1853); then the novels "The Courbezos" (1861), and "Julien Savignac" (1863). But the remarkable novel "Abbe Tigrane" (1873)-one of the most noteworthy in modern French fiction, especially by its insight into French priestly life-first won him great distinction; "Lucifer" (1884), portraying the struggle among the clergy between Gallicanism and Ultramontanism, is doubtless his greatest work. Shorter stories like the "Abbe Roitelet" (1891), "Norine" (1890), "Germany" (1891) are admirable for tenderness and sympathy with nature; "Ma Vocation" (1889) is a very interesting little volume of leaves from his student diary.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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