Charles Rabou
| Charles Rabou | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Charles Félix Henri Rabou 6 September 1803 Paris |
| Died |
11 February 1871 (aged 67) Paris |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Charles Félix Henri Rabou (6 September 1803 – 1 February 1871) was an 19th-century French writer, novelist and journalist.
Biography
The son of a military sub-intendant, he studied at the collège Henri IV before attending law classes at the Faculty of Dijon. Back in Paris with his degree in law, he turned away from the bar in favor of literature. First a journalist for La Quotidienne, Le Messager des Chambres, Le Nouvelliste, le Journal de Paris, La Charte de 1830, he held political and literary chronicles, then in 1832 launched La Cour d'Assise, to be published until 1834.
Publication de Balzac
Director of the prestigious Revue de Paris which he helped establish,[1] he befriended Honoré de Balzac whose novels he published in the pages of his paper. Mutual trust was such that Balzac entrusted him with the task to complete some unfinished novels after his death: Le Député d'Arcis (1854), Le Comte de Sallenauve (1855), La Famille Beauvisage (1855), Les Petits Bourgeois (1856), a task Rabou performed honestly but that was coldly greeted by the critics.[2]
He was falsely accused of being Balzac's ghostwriter. Charles Rabo continued to produce great works of literature that deserve to be rediscovered.
Works[3]
Collections
- 1832: Contes bruns (with Honoré de Balzac and Philarète Chasles):
- Sara la danseuse
- Tobias Guarnerius
- Les Regrets
- Le Ministère public
Novels
- 1831: Le Mannequin (1831)
- 1839: Les Tribulations et métamorphoses posthumes de maître Fabricius, peintre liégeois (reprinted in 1860)
- 1840: Louison d'Arquien
- 1842: Le Capitaine Lambert
- 1845: La Reine d'un jour
- 1846: Madame de Chaumergis, digest online
- 1845: L'Allée des veuves
- 1849: Le Cabinet noir. Les Frères de la mort
- 1857: La Fille sanglante
- 1858: Le Marquis de Vulpiano
- 1860: Les Grands danseurs du Roi
Continuation of Balzac
- 1854: Scènes de la vie politique. Le Député d'Arcis
- 1854: Le Comte de Sallenauve
- 1855: La Famille Beauvisage
- 1855: Les Petits bourgeois, scènes de la vie parisienne
Historical essay
- 1860: La Grande Armée
Bibliography
- Charles Rabou on wikisource
- Jacques Goimard et Roland Stragliati (éds.), Histoires de fantômes, éd. Presses Pocket, 1977
- Jacques Goimard et Roland Stragliati (éds.), La Grande Anthologie du fantastique, t.2, éd. Omnibus, 1996
- Florian Balduc (éd.),Fantaisies Hoffmaniennes, Editions Otrante, 2016
References
- ↑ Dictionnaire universel des contemporains de Gustave Vapereau (éd. de 1858,(p. 1423))
- ↑ Dictionnaire historique des littératures Larousse,1985, tome II,ISBN 2-03-508301-X
- ↑ cf. Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, éd.Firmin Didot, 1857, (p. 628), extracts online