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Paul Féval

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born

January 01, 1816 in France

died

January 01, 1887

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Paul Féval (1816-1887) was the author of popular swashbucklers, such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial best seller Le Bossu (1857). He also penned the seminal Knightshade, The Vampire Countess and Vampire City. His greatest claim to fame was as one of the fathers of the modern crime thriller. Because of its themes and characters, his novel Jean Diable (1862) can claim to be the world's first modern detective novel. His masterpiece was Les Habits Noirs (1863-75), a criminal saga written over a twelve year period comprised of seven novels. After losing his fortune in a financial scandal, Féval became a born again Christian, stopped writing crime thrillers, and began to write religious novels, sadly leaving the tale of the Black Coats...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 428 ratings · 44 reviews · 79 distinct works

	Le Bossu 4.16 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1857 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Vampire City 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1873 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Le bossu, I 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Le bossu ou le petit parisien 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	Les mystères de Londres 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Manusa de otel 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	The Black Coats: Heart Of Steel by Paul Féval, Brian M. Stableford (Adapter) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Knightshade 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Black Coats: Salem Street 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	D'Artagnan kontra Cyrano de Bergerag 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991	My rating:

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Quotes by Paul Féval

“Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égaye-t-il pas un peu ces navrants paysages ? Tout Bacchus est là ; Bacchus, chanté avec tant de constance par nos poètes ébriolants. Bacchus ne peut-il rasséréner ces horizons en deuil ? ou faut-il croire que Bacchus lui-même, ennemi de l’eau, est incommodé par le voisinage de la rivière ?”
― Paul Féval, Unknown Book 11828767

tags: bacchus , poetry

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