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Book cover of La Bièvre, les Gobelins, Saint-Severin

La Bièvre, les Gobelins, Saint-Severin

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1901146 pagesEsprit Du Temps

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Joris-Karl Huysmans is the pen name of 19th century French novelist and art critic Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans. His early works were in the Naturalist school, and he later wrote Symbolist and Catholic literature, paralleling his own conversion to Roman Catholicism. Huysmans is best remembered for his 1884 Décadent novel À rebours. Joris-Karl Huysmans was born on 5 February 1848 in Paris, the son of a Dutch lithographer and a former school teacher. When Joris-Karl was eight, his father die...

Auguste Lepère was a French artist celebrated for his detailed wood engravings and illustrations. His work often depicted Parisian life and landscapes, as seen in pieces like "La Bièvre," "les Gobelins," and "Saint-Severin."

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Book cover of La Bièvre, les Gobelins, Saint-Severin
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