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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889), was a French novelist and short story writer.
He specialised in a kind of mysterious tale that examines hidden motivation and hintedevil bordering (but never crossing into) the supernatural.
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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, 1851) 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