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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Born

in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche, Normandy, France

November 02, 1808

Died

April 23, 1889

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Lord Byron, Honoré de Balzac, Joseph de Maistre, Stendhal, Walter Scot ...more

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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a novelist and literary critic at the Bonapartist paper Le Pays who was influential among fin-de-siècle decadents.
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 and Marcel Proust. ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 4,026 ratings · 366 reviews · 701 distinct works • Similar authors

	Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Glaudes (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 2,021 ratings — published 1874 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Ensorcelée by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Hubert Juin 3.73 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1852 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dandyism by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Douglas Ainslie (Translator), Quentin Crisp (Preface) 3.59 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1845 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le bonheur dans le crime 3.57 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1874 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Une vieille maîtresse by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jacques Petit (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1851 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Une histoire sans nom by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Philippe Berthier 3.83 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1882 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Chevalier Des Touches 3.51 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1863 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kırmızı Perde 3.54 avg rating — 100 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Vengeance D'une Femme 3.49 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1874 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un prêtre marié 3.90 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1864 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Les Diaboliques (1 book)
by

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly,

Pierre Glaudes (Editor)

3.67 avg rating — 2,519 ratings

Un prêtre marié (2 books)
by

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

3.90 avg rating — 59 ratings

Correspondance générale (9 books)
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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Quotes by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (?)

“For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques

tags: devil, fools, god, love, paris

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“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime

tags: devil, misogny, women

61 likes

“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

tags: autumn, night

53 likes

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