Paul Féval (writer, 1816)
Paul Henry Corentin Féval (born September 30, 1816 in Rennes , † March 8, 1887 in Paris ) was a French writer . He also wrote under the pseudonym Sir Francis Trolopp .
Féval wrote a large number of adventure and crime novels that made him one of the most popular and successful authors in France in the mid-19th century. His level of fame was similar to that of Honoré de Balzacs and Alexandre Dumas , even outside his country.
Life
Févals father was adviser to the Royal Court in Rennes, but did not earn enough to feed his wife and five children - he died in 1827. Paul studied after 1830 law , hung up the profession of lawyer but after only one process at 1836 the nail.
Hoping to make a name for himself as a writer, he moved to Paris. In 1841 the newspaper Revue de Paris printed his first novel: Le Club des phoques . With his second work ( Les Mystères de Londres ) - and under the pseudonym Sir Francis Trolopp - he tried to imitate Eugène Sue's extremely successful newspaper novel Les Mystères de Paris (1843), which he succeeded. The book was quickly translated into several languages. Spurred on by his own success, he wrote one novel after another in the years that followed. The February Revolution of 1848 , during which he fought as a conservative against the Republicans , did not curb his writing mania. On the contrary, until the birth of his son Paul Auguste Jean Nicolas in 1860 alone , he published a dozen novels. In 1863 he met Charles Dickens and made friends with him.
The years after 1870 were marked only by literary failures. After he was refused entry to the Académie française twice and he was increasingly in financial distress, he converted to ultramontanism in 1876 . In the last years of his life he devoted himself entirely to rewriting his work - in the sense of Catholic moral teaching .
Works
- Le Club des phoques (1841)
- Les Mystères de Londres (1843), German "The Secrets of London" (1844) and "London Mysteries" (1844–1845)
- Le Capitaine Spartacus (1843)
- Les Chevaliers du Firmament (1843)
- Le Loup Blanc (1843)
- Les aventures d'un émigré (1844)
- Les Amours de Paris (1845), German "Parisian Liaisons" (1846)
- La Quittance de minuit (1846)
- Le Fils du diable (1846)
- Le Château de Croïat (1848)
- Les Belles de nuit (1849-1850)
- Fée des Grèves (1850)
- Beau demon (1850)
- Le capitaine Simon (1851), German "The Capitain Simon" (1852)
- Les tribunaux secrets: ouvrage historique (1851–1852)
- La Soeur des Fantomes (1852), 1867 as Les Revenants
- La louve (1855-1856)
- L'homme de fer (1855-1856), German "The Iron Man" (1988)
- Madame Gil Blas ou les Mémoires d'une femme de notre temps (1856)
- Les couteaux d'or (1856)
- La Vampire (1856)
- Le Bossu (1857), German "The Bucklige" (1857); Film adaptations: The Hunted - Knight of the Night (1959) and Duel der Degen (1997)
- Les Compagnons du silence (1857)
- Le roi des gueux (1859)
- Le Capitaine fantôme (1862)
- Le Chevalier Ténèbre (1862)
- Jean-Diable (1863)
- Les Habits Noirs (1863-1875)
- La Cavalière (1865–1866)
- Le Cavalier Fortune (1868)
- Le quai de la ferraille (1869)
- Le Chevalier de Keramour (1873)
- La Ville-Vampire (1874/75)
- Les cinq (1875)
- La première aventure de Corentin Quimper (1876)
literature
- Féval, Paul. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . A reference book of general knowledge. 6., completely reworked u. increased circulation. 20 vols. Leipzig a. Vienna, Bibliographical Institute, 1902-08.
- Dorothee Fritz-El Ahmad: Investigations into the feuilleton novels by Paul Féval . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1986. (= Saarbrücker Papers on Romance Studies; 5) ISBN 3-8204-9526-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Féval in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Féval in Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon on Zeno.org
- Sur les pas des ecrivains: Paul FEVAL (French)
- Paul Féval: La Vampire at Gallica
- Paul Féval: Les tribunaux secrets: ouvrage historique at Gallica
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Féval, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Féval, Paul Henry Corentin (full name); Trollop, Sir Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennes |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1887 |
| Place of death | Paris |