Paul Hervieu (2 September 1857 â€" 25 October 1915) was a French
novelist and playwright.He was born Paul-Ernest Hervieu in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hervieu was born into a wealthy
upper-middle-class family. He studied law, but sought also had contact
with writers like Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine and Alphonse Daudet.
After graduating in 1877, he first practiced in a law firm, in 1879
qualified for the diplomatic service, and was posted in the French
Embassy in Mexico. But he preferred to remain in France, where he
attended fashionable literary salons, and the acquaintance of artists
and writers such as Marcel Proust, Paul Bourget, Henri Meilhac,
Ludovic Halévy, Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Degas. On the
recommendation of his friend Octave Mirbeau, he tried his hand as a
journalist.Hervieu was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving
some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified
for the diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to
a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico.[1]He contributed
novels, tales and essays to the chief Parisian papers and reviews, and
published a series of clever novels, including L'Inconnue (1887),
Flirt (1890), L'Exorcisée (1891), Peints par eux-mêmes (1893), an
ironic study written in the form of letters, and L'Armature (1895),
dramatized in 1905 by Eugène Brieux.[1]
novelist and playwright.He was born Paul-Ernest Hervieu in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hervieu was born into a wealthy
upper-middle-class family. He studied law, but sought also had contact
with writers like Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine and Alphonse Daudet.
After graduating in 1877, he first practiced in a law firm, in 1879
qualified for the diplomatic service, and was posted in the French
Embassy in Mexico. But he preferred to remain in France, where he
attended fashionable literary salons, and the acquaintance of artists
and writers such as Marcel Proust, Paul Bourget, Henri Meilhac,
Ludovic Halévy, Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Degas. On the
recommendation of his friend Octave Mirbeau, he tried his hand as a
journalist.Hervieu was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving
some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified
for the diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to
a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico.[1]He contributed
novels, tales and essays to the chief Parisian papers and reviews, and
published a series of clever novels, including L'Inconnue (1887),
Flirt (1890), L'Exorcisée (1891), Peints par eux-mêmes (1893), an
ironic study written in the form of letters, and L'Armature (1895),
dramatized in 1905 by Eugène Brieux.[1]
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