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A French novelist and poet of great perfection and distinction of style; born at Paris, April 16, 1844. His first volume of "Poems" was published in 1873, and his dramatic poem "Corinthian Revels" in 1876. The humorous story "Jocaste and the Lean Cat" (1879) was received with indifference; but he had brilliant success with "The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard" (1881); "The Yule Log" (1881); and "The Wishes of Jean Servien" (1881). His other works include: "Our Children: Scenes in Town and in the Fields" (1886); "Queen Pedauque's Cook-Shop"; "Opinions of the Abbe Jerome Coignard" (1893); "The Garden of Epicurus"; "Abeille"; "My Friend's Book"; "Our Children"; "Balthazar"; "Thais"; "Literary Life"; "Alfred de Vigny"; etc.