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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist and influential critic who in his day was influential in matters of social fashion and literary taste..

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November – 23 April ), was a French novelist and short story writer.

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A gentleman born in the outskirts of the noble society but particularly keen to the issues of social, cultural, and economic change, as well.

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist and influential critic who in his day was influential in matters of social fashion and literary taste.

The recorded spelling variations of Barbey include Barby, Barbey, Barbie, Barbbie, Barbbey and others.

The outer defense work of a castle or town, frequently a watchtower at the gate.

He specialised in a kind of mysterious tale that examines hidden motivation and hintedevil bordering (but never crossing into) the supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James and Proust.

His best-known collection is The She-Devils, which includes the cult classic Happiness in Crime and is still in print from Dedalus Books. Une vieille maîtresse (An Elderly Mistress, ) was adapted to cinema by French director Catherine Breillat: its English title is The Last Mistress.

He is variously lumped in with the Late French Romantics, The Decadents, Symbolists and is included in the Genealogy of the Cruel Tale and The Romantic Agony. He is considered a practitioner of the Fantastique and a dandy.