Summary: Arsène Houssaye (28 March 1814 – 26 February 1896) was a French novelist, poet and man of letters. Houssaye was born in Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon, his original surname was Housset.In 1832 he found his way to Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pécheresse. He had many friends in Paris, among them Jules Janin and Théophile Gautier, and he wrote in collaboration with Jules Sandeau. He produced art criticism in L'Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise (1846), semi-historical sketches in Mlle de la Vallière et Mme de Montespan (1860) and Galerie de portraits du XVIII siècle (1844).

Books of Arsène Houssaye