Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (born 1808)

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

French writer (1808–1889)

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on…