Victor Cherbuliez

Victor Cherbuliez (July 19th 1829 with Geneva - July 2nd 1899 with Combs-the-City) is a novelist, dramatic author, literary essay writer and critical French.

Life and works

Born in a French family taken refuge in Swiss following the revocation from the Edict of Nantes, it becomes again French in 1880 by the benefit of the right of “great naturalization” (ordinance of June 14th 1814) and is elected the following year with the French Academy (on December 18th 1881).

He is the author of about thirty novels, whose majority are forgotten today, among which: the Count Kostia (1863), Prosper Randoce (1868), the Adventure of Ladislas Bolski (1869), Meta Holdenis (1873), the Farm of the choquard (1883).

It also published critical works in the Review of the Two Worlds : Studies of literature and art (1887), Men and things of time present (1883), strange Profiles (1889), as well as political chronicles published under the pseudonym of G. Valbert in this same review.

Victor Cherbuliez had, if one believes Amiel of it, a certain oratorical talent: “I leave the lesson of opening of Victor Cherbuliez, dumb-founded admiration. I was convinced at the same time of my radical incapacity nothing to make the similar one forever, for the skill, the grace, clearness, fruitfulness, measurement, solidity and the smoothness. If it is a reading, they is exquisite; if it is a recitation, it is admirable; if it is an improvisation, they is extraordinary, dazing, crushing for us others. ” ( Newspaper , January 9th, 1861)

Victor Cherbuliez died in 1899 and was buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse in Paris.

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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