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Paul Feval
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29 September 1817 - 8 March 1887
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Paul-Henri-Corentan Feval was born on September 27, 1817 in Rennes in a well-known family of lawyers. Continuing the family tradition, he received a law degree at the Lyceum and at the local university. At the age of 19, Feval began practicing law, but failure in the first case pushed him to abandon this path. He went to Paris, got a job in a bank, but his love of reading led to neglect of official duties, for which he was fired a few months later. Then Feval worked in an advertising agency, in
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Paul-Henri-Corentan Feval was born on September 27, 1817 in Rennes in a well-known family of lawyers. Continuing the family tradition, he received a law degree at the Lyceum and at the local university. At the age of 19, Feval began practicing law, but failure in the first case pushed him to abandon this path. He went to Paris, got a job in a bank, but his love of reading led to neglect of official duties, for which he was fired a few months later. Then Feval worked in an advertising agency, in the editorial office of a Paris newspaper and eventually became a proofreader in the publishing house. At the same time he began to write, and the first story published in 1841 attracted attention to him, and Feval began to be published in famous Paris newspapers. In 1843, the novel "White Wolf" was published, a year later - under the pseudonym Francis Trolopp, he published the novel "The Mystery of the Havana cigar", which gained great popularity and was translated into several languages. Since that time, Paul Feval’s active writing activity begins – he works hard, sometimes releasing up to four novels a year! Among his popular works are “novels with a sequel” “The Shadow of a Knight”, “The Vampire Countess”, “The Vampire City”. Some experts call the writer the forerunner of the modern criminal thriller, and his novel Jean-Devil (1862) is called the world’s first modern detective novel. The peak of Feval’s work was the criminal saga “Frace” (1863-1875) – for 12 years the writer created seven novels. To this day, the attention of readers enjoys a series of adventurous novels about the adventures of Lagarder-Horbun, the first of them was published in 1857. Hard work and financial difficulties undermined Feval’s health and paralysis. He died on March 8, 1887 in Paris.