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Octave Feuillet, a man of aristocratic birth, had set himself to write novels which portrayed the cynicism and hardness of the upper classes in France. One of these novels, Sibylle, excited the anger of George Sand. She had not known Feuillet before; yet now she sought him out, at first in order to berate him for his book, but in the end to add him to her variegated string of lovers.
The Journal goes on to speak of a subject of peculiar literary and historical interest. April 11th. The publication in 1864 of three volumes of the letters of Marie Antoinette, under the title 'Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette et Madame Elisabeth. Lettres et Documents inedits; publies par F. Feuillet de Conches, and of another volume Correspondance inedite de Marie Antoinette.
Mémories de De Bouillé, pp. 175, 181. Ibid., p. 130. The letter to the King of Prussia is given by Lamartine; its date is December 3d, 1790. Histoire des Girondins, book v., § 12. Mercy to Marie Antoinette, from The Hague, December 17th, 1790, Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 398. Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 401. Ibid., p. 403, date December 27th, 1790. "Mirabeau et La Marck," ii., pp. 57 61.
When you come back you will have some fresh ideas, I promise you. He asked if ladies also went there. 'Some do; I don't. Conventions mean nothing to me, as you perceive, or I should have a companion here to play propriety. But like you, perhaps, I am Romantic. I believe in the grand style. I have ideas as to how men should treat me. I can read Octave Feuillet.
By OCTAVE FEUILLET With a Preface by MAXIME DU CAMP, of the French Academy OCTAVE FEUILLET'S works abound with rare qualities, forming a harmonious ensemble; they also exhibit great observation and knowledge of humanity, and through all of them runs an incomparable and distinctive charm. He will always be considered the leader of the idealistic school in the nineteenth century.
On the other hand, Reeve wrote an article for the 'Edinburgh Review' of April 1866, on the 'Correspondence of Marie Antoinette' in which he argued that the letters edited by M. d'Hunolstein were of very doubtful authenticity, but that those of the larger work of M. Feuillet de Conches were genuine.
I called on M. Feuillet de Conches, the editor of the Marie Antoinette letters, whose authenticity is impugned, and on leaving his house I called on Lavergne, where I met M. de Sybel, the German professor, by whom these charges have been most actively brought and disseminated.
His father, whom he lost early, kept a silk store, at the sign of the Chat Noir, where he had made a considerable fortune. Eugene commenced his career as a dramatic writer in 1811. M. Vitel said, at the reception of M. Octave Feuillet, at the French Academy, March 26, 1863:
IN his latest novel M. Octave Feuillet adds two charming people to that chosen group of personages in which he loves to trace the development of the more serious elements of character amid the refinements and artifices of modern society, and which make such good company.
The critics nowadays would apply to the actress the phrase of the auctioneer to his wife, and implore her to "get on with her dying." There was the famous Mlle. Croizette in Le Sphinx, by that detestable dramatist Octave Feuillet; she squirmed horribly after taking poison from a ring; and it was alleged that she had studied the death of patients in hospitals a brutal, horrible thing to do.
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