Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1 April (O.S. 20 March) 1809 – 4 March (O.S. 21 February) 1852 was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary re...

Feuillet was born at Saint-Lô, Manche (Normandy). His father Jacques Feuillet was a prominent lawyer and Secretary-General of La Manche, but also a hypersensitive invalid. His mother died when he was an infant. Feuillet inherited some of his father's nervous excitability, though not to the same degr...

Paul Auguste Marie Adam, born December 7, 1862 in Paris where he died January 2, 1920, is a French writer and art critic. Coming from a family of industrialists and soldiers from Artois, son of a Postmaster General under the Second Empire, Paul Adam studied at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris before emba...

Antoine Joseph Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a gra...

Paul-Auguste Arène (26 June 1843, Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 17 December 1896, Antibes) was a Provençal poet and French writer. The son of Adolphe, a clockmaker, and Reine, a cap presser, he studied in Marseille, then in Vannes. A short play which enjoyed some success at the Odéon, Pierrot ...

Paul Bourget ( 2 September 1852 – 25 December 1935) was a French novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme département of Picardy, France. His father, a professor of mathematics, was later appointed to a post in t...

Paul d'Ivoi, pen name of Paul Charles Philippe Éric Deleutre, is a French novelist born on October 25, 1856 in Paris and died on September 6, 1915 in Paris. Paul Deleutre is not the only one to use the pseudonym Paul d'Ivoi. His father, Charles, also signed his journalistic columns Paul d'Ivoi. He b...

Paul Deltuf, born on March 7, 1825 in Paris (former 11th), died on August 14, 1870 in Clermont (Oise), is a French poet and writer. He became known through a volume of poetry, Idylles antiques, in 1851, then wrote a large number of novels and short stories around a main theme: women. Towards the end...

Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist.He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857). He also penned the seminal vampire fiction novels Le Chevalier Ténèbre (...

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in ...