Charles Deslys (1 March 1821 – 13 March 1885) was a 19th-century French writer.He was educated at the Lycée Charlemagne then performed a study tour in Italy. Upon his return, he became an actor in the South of France and made his debut as a writer.He began his artistic career in the theater. He trav...

Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, ...

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (April 29, 1780 – January 27, 1844) was an influential French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerva...

Charles Paul de Kock (May 21, 1793 in Passy, Paris – April 27, 1871 in Paris) was a French novelist. His father, Jean Conrad de Kock, a banker of Dutch extraction, victim of the Terror, was guillotined in Paris 24 March 1794. His mother, Anne-Marie Perret, née Kirsberger, was a widow from Basel. Pau...

Charlotte Brontë ( 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to ...

Louise Lucienne Emma Bérenger, known as Claire de Chandeneux, born in Crest (Drôme) on November 17, 1836 and died in Vincennes (Seine) on October 6, 1881, is a French woman of letters and novelist, married successively to two soldiers, the captain of Prébaron, then Commandant Bailly, she is the auth...

Jean Schopfer (28 May 1868 – 9 January 1931) was a tennis player competing for France, and a writer, known under the pseudonym of Claude Anet. He reached two singles finals at the Amateur French Championships, winning in 1892 over British player Fassitt, and losing in 1893 to Laurent Riboulet. Schop...

FERRAND Claudius, Philippe, was born on June 19, 1868 in Crémieux (Isère). He is a French priest, member of the Foreign Missions of Paris. Then missionary in Japan then in Korea.His parents are Philippe Ferrand and Anne-Marie Couturier.After completing his classical studies, he entered the Seminary ...

Gabrielle Anne Cisterne de Courtiras, vicomtesse de Saint-Mars (2 August 1804 – 11 September 1872), nom de plume Countess Dash, was a prolific French writer. Gabrielle de Courtiras was a daughter of M. de Courtiras, and early married the Marquis de Saint-Mars. After the loss of her fortune, she took...

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